By Jessica Anstice
West Gippsland Healthcare Group’s Information Technology (IT) system has been impacted by a region-wide cyber security incident which has affected hospitals in the Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA) Network and South West Rural Health Alliance (SWARH).
This IT issue has not affected clinical services at West Gippsland Hospital/ WGHG.
There have been no cancellations to surgery. Emergency Department is operating as usual and all hospital inpatient and outpatient services including consulting suites and allied and community health are running.
WGHG, Chief Executive Officer, Dan Weeks, said the incident has impacted on shared IT systems between hospitals within the Gippsland Health Alliance (GHA).
“Fortunately, most of our local services are still functional including internal intranet communications, phone systems, public address system, access to printers and external website,” he said.
“In situations like this, the hospital reverts to manual paper-based systems to maintain services.”
