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Hospital power outage hits IT systems and phone lines

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The hospital is working to fix "significant intermittent issues" with its telephone lines

A power outage at a major hospital has hit its IT system and telephone lines.

The NHS trust that runs the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital announced the power outage just after 19:30 BST.

In a statement, the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust reported "significant intermittent issues" with some of its telephone lines, but later said they were back up and running at around 21:15.

The trust said that lifts at the hospital in Gloucester were also currently not working, and people should "only visit if it is essential".

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"We have experienced significant intermittent issues with some of our telephone lines and power but these are now working," the hospital trust said.

"This has followed a power outage which has also impacted on our IT systems."

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