It Seems That The ‘Axe The Fax’ Program Is Struggling A Little In The UK. What A Surprise!

This appeared last week:Trusts set to miss Axe the Fax deadline due to ‘concerning lack of progress’A new report looking into the number of fax machines still in use across the NHS in England has shown “a concerning lack of progress” amongst trusts working to remove the them ahead of the April 2020 deadline.Owen Hughes30 September, 2019The report reveals that t he trusts with the most fax machines have collectively axed just 42% over the past twelve months, with less than six months to go until the ‘axe the fax’ deadline.The new findings come from a Freedom of Information (FOI) request published by Silver Buck, the marketing and PR agency responsible f or running the Axe the Fax campaign.The FOI also found that trusts that had identified a solution for replacing their fax machines had, on average, removed 9.4% more fax machines than those that hadn’t.This latest FOI request follows that published by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) July 2018, which revealed that the NHS was the...
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 9, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs