News / UK and world by Press Association December 9, 2018, 8:20 am FacebookTwitterLinkedInWhatsAppEmail Sign up to our Daily newsletter Fax machines will be banned across the NHS under plans to overhaul outdated technology and IT systems. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has banned the purchasing of fax machines in the health service from next month, and has ordered the NHS to phase out the outdated machines by March 31 2020. By then, all NHS organisations will be required to use modern communication methods, such as secure email, to improve patient safety and cyber security, the Department of Health said. The Royal College of Surgeons estimated in July that more than 8,000 fax machines are still being used by the NHS. Richard Kerr, chair of the Royal College of Surgeons Commission on the Future of Surgery, said: “Earlier this year, work undertaken for the RCS’s Commission on the Future of Surgery revealed that NHS hospital trusts own over 8,000 fax … [Read more...] about Fax machines to be banned across the NHS
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Fax machines will be banned across the NHS under radical plans to overhaul outdated technology
Fax machines will be banned across the NHS under radical plans to overhaul outdated technology and IT systems, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. Matt Hancock, the Health secretary, banned hospital trusts from buying fax machines on Friday and ordered them to be phased out completely by April 2020. NHS Trusts will instead be required to invest in new technology to replace any outdated systems, using £200million of Government cash set aside for modernisation earlier this year. Mr Hancock told The Sunday Telegraph: "Because I love the NHS, I want to bring it into the 21st century and use the very best technology available. We've got to get the basics right, like having computers that work and getting... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events Cancel any time Free for 30 days then only £2 per week Try Premium Access one Premium article per week … [Read more...] about Fax machines will be banned across the NHS under radical plans to overhaul outdated technology
Stuffed frogs and sewing machines: Switzerland’s strangest museums
Switzerland's stuffed frog museum. Photo: Swiss Tourism It may be a small country, but Switzerland has a lot of museums. According to the government’s first official study, released last year, there are a total of 1,111 museums across the country which together attracted over 12 million visitors in 2015, the last year for which figures are available. While many are dedicated to standard themes like history, art and technology – others are, shall we say, a little more obscure. From Lausanne’s display of 5,000 years of shoes to Zurich’s waxwork collection of diseased body parts (yes, really), The Local takes a look the weirdest museums in Switzerland that you might just find bizarrely fascinating. Frog Museum BLOG POST M. Grenouille & M. Grenouille, Attorneys at Law - Switzerland has a dead frog museum! Read all about it on our blog. #frogmuseum, #stuffedfrogs, #frogart, #frogs, #grenouilles, … [Read more...] about Stuffed frogs and sewing machines: Switzerland’s strangest museums
Food fight: Broken ice cream machine leads to alleged assault at fast food restaurant
Bay City News Service Published 10:43 am PDT, Friday, August 24, 2018 At about 2:10 p.m., a female customer ordering food at the drive-through of a restaurant in the 800 block of Willow Avenue got in an argument with the manager about the disabled ice cream machine, police said. less At about 2:10 p.m., a female customer ordering food at the drive-through of a restaurant in the 800 block of Willow Avenue got in an argument with the manager about the disabled ice cream machine, police ... more Photo: Jacom Stephens / Getty Image Click through to see violent crimes reported by Bay Area cities in 2016, starting with the cities that reported the highest incidents of violent crime. Statistics from the FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2016. Click through to see violent crimes reported by Bay Area cities in 2016, starting with the cities that reported the highest incidents of violent crime. Statistics from the … [Read more...] about Food fight: Broken ice cream machine leads to alleged assault at fast food restaurant
NHS is ‘stubbornly attached’ to outdated fax machines and still uses THOUSANDS of them
THE NHS is “stubbornly attached” to fax machines, with thousands still in use across the country. Trusts in England own at least 8,946 of the outdated pieces of technology, Freedom of Information figures show. A report last year named the NHS as the world’s largest purchaser of fax machines. The technology, which scans paper sheets and prints out a copy at another machine, was popular in the 1980s and ’90s but rendered largely obsolete by email and the web. Richard Kerr, of the Royal College of Surgeons, called the NHS’s continued fax use “ludicrous” and urged it to invest in better communication. He said: “It cannot continue to rely on technology most other organisations scrapped in the early 2000s.” The RCS contacted 124 trusts, of which 86 provided data. NOT JUST SPOTS! Six common types of bumps on your skin - and the ones that could be deadly MIND OVER MATTER What are the symptoms of anxiety, how can it be treated and who … [Read more...] about NHS is ‘stubbornly attached’ to outdated fax machines and still uses THOUSANDS of them