Workers at a London hospital were unable to find a tap to hose down their overheating air conditioner as a critical outage saw dozens of appointments cancelled or delayed.
The bizarre admission was made in a review, published this week, into a critical incident that occured at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals in July 2022 when two data centres failed during the UK’s record-breaking heatwave.
The review found the incident was likely preventable and said hospital management could have put in place measures to predict and mitigate the potential risks extreme weather now poses to its IT systems.
