{"id":817159,"date":"2026-10-29T03:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817159\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T03:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T03:20:07","slug":"hundreds-of-nhs-websites-offline-after-provider-goes-into-administration-without-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817159\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of NHS websites offline after provider goes into administration &#8216;without warning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Hundreds of NHS websites across England and Wales are offline after their online provider entered administration &#8220;without warning&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Software company Silicon Practice, which claims online to &#8220;proudly serve 1,000 websites&#8221; for GP practices, said it had been partnering with the NHS since 2005. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">A notice of administration was filed by its parent company, Schappit Ltd, earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Subscribe free to <a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" data-testid=\"fecp-link-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">our weekly newsletter<\/a> for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Patients of GP surgeries in areas like London, Hertfordshire, Gloucestershire and Swansea received notifications on Wednesday advising them that the practices&#8217; websites would no longer be available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">One message from Southgate Surgery, in North London, and seen by ITV News reads: &#8220;Our website (for routine issues only) is currently unavailable because our provider went into administration without warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;We apologise for the inconvenience. This is temporary while we find a new provider.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Credit: ITV News<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The Southgate Surgery website currently shows an error code for a bad gateway when visited online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">NHS England confirmed GPs using Silicon Practice would be affected, but did not say how long for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;While the majority of GP practice websites are running as normal, some practices which use Silicon Practice will be affected by the company going into administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">&#8220;If your GP practice website is unavailable and you need help, you should contact your practice by phone or in person as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">ITV News has contacted Silicon Practice for comment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Want a quick and expert briefing on the biggest news stories? Listen to our latest podcasts to find out What You Need To Know&#8230; <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of NHS websites across England and Wales are offline after their online provider entered administration &#8220;without warning&#8221;.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}