Sunday 7 August 2022 02:01 AM NHS is using 800 fax machines despite government vowing to phase them out ... trends now
Sunday 7 August 2022 02:01 AM NHS is using 800 fax machines despite government vowing to phase them out ... trends now
NHS is STILL using 800 fax machines despite government vowing to phase them out almost four years ago Matt Hancock, Health Secretary in 2018, promised to phase out fax machines Freedom of Information requests to 144 NHS trusts found 837 still in operation And some NHS Trusts each have more than 100 fax machines that are still in use
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More than 800 fax machines are still being used by the NHS – almost four years after the Government vowed to phase them out.
About one in six NHS trusts across England are still using the outdated machines, Labour found, with three having more than 100 of them.
In December 2018, Matt Hancock, who was then Health Secretary, promised to phase out the 'archaic machines', saying 'everywhere else got rid of them years ago'.
Mr Hancock instigated an immediate ban on the NHS buying more, and ordered their use to be phased out by April 2020. The Department of Health and Social Care said at the time: 'NHS
