THE article reports that Qilin’s 2024 ransomware attack on NHS vendor Synnovis continues to affect patient care at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). It notes that pathology systems have not been restored and the trust remains in business continuity mode, reliant on paper processes and manual uploads for requests and reporting. The piece states that 161,560 pathology reports entering patient records had been delayed as of early January 2026.
It adds that clinicians were warned not to rely on the timely return of blood results, with critical results being communicated by phone while full reports were delivered as paper or PDFs and manually uploaded. Since the attack, no pathology reports for SLaM patients have been available in the London Care Record, and normal service had not resumed for the trust, according to The Record.