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NHS Blood and Transplant has asked O Positive and O Negative donors to book appointments at 25 NHS Blood Donor Centres in England to rebuild O type stocks after the June ransomware attack on Synnovis.
The 2025 National Risk Register cites the CrowdStrike IT outage as evidence of how technology failure can affect services essential to daily life, alongside 89 risks across nine themes.
Get Safe Online has warned individuals and small businesses about scams exploiting the global Microsoft outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike software update, including fake tech support calls and…
A July 2024 fire risk assessment found the fire suppression system at North Hyde 275kV substation was still out of service, a review has said, months before a fire there cut power to more than 70,000…
Research released by the National Water Safety Forum links higher UK air temperatures to sharp rises in accidental drowning, with a fivefold increase in risk on days averaging 25°C or above.
Junior doctors in England began five days of strike action at 7am on 27 June, running until 7am on 2 July, as yellow heat health alerts cover most of the country.
East Midlands Ambulance Service has advised residents and holidaymakers to take steps to stay healthy after the Met Office issued a Yellow heat alert for the East Midlands in late June 2024.
A yellow heat health alert covering most of England came into force on Monday 24 June 2024, and NHS England reports that visits to its heat exhaustion advice more than doubled over the following 48…
The National Fire Chiefs Council has issued public safety advice on preventing outdoor fires and drownings as warmer weather is forecast for the UK in the coming week.
Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service has warned of an elevated wildfire risk across its area over the coming days, with heathlands, fields and cliffsides most at risk.
A cyber criminal group has published data it claims was stolen from Synnovis, the south-east London pathology laboratory hit by a ransomware attack on 3 June 2024, and investigators are working to…
NHS England London is publishing weekly unverified figures on the disruption caused by the ransomware attack on the Synnovis pathology laboratory, with 814 planned operations postponed in the first…
Products installed in Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's public distribution network between 12 June and 27 August 2024 lacked valid regulation 31 approval, an event later given the highest risk score in Wales.
The Royal Life Saving Society UK reports that accidental child drowning deaths in England rose from 20 in 2019-20 to 41 in 2022-23, as its annual Drowning Prevention Week campaign begins.
Anker has recalled its A1112 Anker 321 Power Bank (PowerCore 5K, Black), sold between 1 March 2023 and 6 June 2024, because some batteries may overheat and pose a fire risk.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards has recalled OEX Folding Novo and Folding Savo gas stoves sold since January 2023 because the gas hose may degrade and leak.
A ransomware attack on pathology provider Synnovis on 3 June 2024 disrupted NHS blood testing in south east London, postponing thousands of appointments and contributing to a national shortage of…
Heat-Health Alerts and Heat-Health Planners have been issued by the UK Health Security Agency in collaboration with the Met Office since 1 June 2024, within a core alerting season running to 30…
A cyber attack on NHS pathology provider Synnovis led to 10,152 acute outpatient appointments and 1,710 elective procedures being postponed across two London hospital trusts.
NHS Blood and Transplant has urged O Positive and O Negative donors to book appointments at 25 NHS Blood Donor Centres in England after a ransomware attack on a south east London pathology laboratory…