Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which includes Leighton Hospital, is urging patients to turn up as normal on Friday 13 November, following the worldwide Microsoft outage.

The Trust says patients can still contact the hospital by phone and should attend appointments as normal but teams may take a little longer to respond. The global outage has happened on Friday 13 November.

A spokesperson from Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust said: "We are currently experiencing disruption to some of our internal Microsoft systems due to the global Microsoft outage.

"We do not anticipate any issues with our local clinical systems. Unless otherwise informed, patients should continue to access the NHS in the usual way.

"Patients can still contact us by phone, but our teams may take a little longer than normal to respond. Thank you for your patience while Microsoft work to fix this issue."