WATCH: rainwater at Raigmore causes IT blackout, cancelling 30 ops
"Detrimental impact" to outpatient and theatre services.
Last updated 2nd Oct 2017
"Emergency operations have gone ahead but a number of elective operations have had to be cancelled" - NHS Highland spokesperson
A Highland hospital's computer systems are down after flooding in Raigmore's basement knocked out the Inverness facility's computer servers overnight.
NHS Highland insists that the IT shut down poses no threat to inpatients' safety, but health board officials are warning of a 'detrimental impact to outpatient and theatre services' today.
Work continues on the recovery and connectivity of the servers to get healthcare services back up and running, but until then the hospital's using paper based contingency plans.
Reports and results from both the x-ray department and the laboratories at Raigmore Hospital are also affected by the temporary glitch, and it's understood that the facility's telephone system has also been hit.
A spokesperson told MFR News: "As anticipated there has been some detrimental impact to outpatient and theatre services.
"While all clinics have been running as normal clinicians have been assessing these on a case by case basis and unfortunately some patients from clinics have had to be cancelled.
"Emergency operations have gone ahead but a number of elective operations have had to be cancelled.
"Work continues on the recovery and connectivity of the servers to ensure that services will resume as quickly as possible."