CrowdStrike: Company to face questions over global IT outage
GPs couldn't treat patients, people were stranded as planes couldn't get off the ground, and small businesses lost thousands in sales.
A rogue software update by the US cybersecurity company CrowdStrike crippled up to eight and half million computers using Microsoft systems around the world.
Adam Meyers - a senior manager at CrowdStrike - will testify at the US Congress on Tuesday to explain what happened and how the company is going to prevent another disaster.
Dr David Wrigley, a GP for the past 22 years, tells the BBC that in the most serious cases, it resulted in possible delays for cancer treatments.
For many GPs, they were unable to use the EMIS system - a digital way of managing appointment bookings and patient records, as well as sending prescriptions to pharmacies.
The BMA said the CrowdStrike outage was "one of the toughest single days in recent times for GPs across England", with doctors forced to return to pen and paper.
