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NHS: Health Services

Asked by Martin WrigleyLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 6 November 2025UIN 84724

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she had made of the potential impact of the Amazon Web Services outage in October 2025 on NHS services.

Answered by Dr Zubir Ahmed

We are not aware of any impact to National Health Services resulting from the outage at Amazon Web Services.

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