NHS Scotland wasn't affected. I blame Sturgeon 
You guys moaning about NHS using obsolete OS's have a point, but unfortunately some very critical software isn't regularly updated and doesn't always play nice with updated versions of the OS.
Case in point, our NHS patient management software broke completely when the IT guys tried to update to the latest version of IE, so had to revert to the version that it was working on. Which meant that many websites were unusable because we were using an old version of IE it took ages until they sorted that one out. If the PMS went out then no appointments could be made or checked, no x-rays available, no patient records, no referral letters from GPs available and so on...
Which is one of the many reasons I use Macs at home
You guys moaning about NHS using obsolete OS's have a point, but unfortunately some very critical software isn't regularly updated and doesn't always play nice with updated versions of the OS.
Case in point, our NHS patient management software broke completely when the IT guys tried to update to the latest version of IE, so had to revert to the version that it was working on. Which meant that many websites were unusable because we were using an old version of IE it took ages until they sorted that one out. If the PMS went out then no appointments could be made or checked, no x-rays available, no patient records, no referral letters from GPs available and so on...
Which is one of the many reasons I use Macs at home