NHS trusts and health boards affected by the cyber attack

  • Health

NHS hospitals across England and Scotland have been hit by a "major" cyber attack.

Ambulances were diverted and patients warned to avoid some A&E departments as IT failures affected numerous health trusts and boards on Friday afternoon and into Saturday.

Some 48 NHS trusts in England and 13 NHS boards in Scotland have been affected by the cyber attack.

ITV News understands the following have been affected:

  • Barts Health Trust

  • Basildon And Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

  • Colchester General Hospital

  • Derbyshire Community Health Services Trust

  • East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

  • East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Warwickshire

  • Hampshire Hospitals Trust

  • Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

  • Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust

  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

  • North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

  • North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

  • Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust

  • Sherwood Forest NHS Trust

  • United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

  • University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

  • Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh NHS Foundation Trust

NHS organisations in Scotland have also been affected. They include:

  • NHS Dumfries and Galloway

  • NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC)

  • NHS Forth Valley

  • NHS Western Isles

  • NHS Borders

  • NHS Fife

  • NHS Lanarkshire

  • NHS Tayside

  • NHS Highlands

  • NHS Grampian

  • NHS Ayrshire and Arran

  • NHS National Services

  • Scottish Ambulance Service