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 Hughes
30 September, 2019
The report reveals that the 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 for 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 world’s largest purchaser of fax machines with nearly 9,000 in use across the healthcare system.
A fresh FOI request was issued to each of the fourteen trusts that responded to RCS FOI request declaring they had 200 or more fax machines.
Three of the fourteen trusts did not respond.
Amongst those that did, two trusts said they had more fax machines in use now than they did when the RCS FOI was issued in July 2018: the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust (one more than reported in July 2018) and the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (two more).
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Bad start
Leeds Teaching Hospitals launched the Axe the Fax campaign soon after the RCS report was published, pledging to remove 95% of its 350 fax machines by 1 January 2019 and ultimately failing to do so.
The latest figures show that progress has been made since then, with the trust having removed 54% of its fax machines.
It is now piloting an eFax service, which enables users to send and receive faxes online and via email.
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It rather looks like the more creative have just moved their fax machine to the on line e-fax and have obtained the benefits of the fax capability without the cost of a machine and paper etc., while still being able to use a pretty reliable form of standardised communication.
Most GP systems in OZ have this capacity built in and indeed the old phone line based fax machine is basically obsolete for most as the NBN sweeps the nation.
Change has come but not quite as the ADHA envisaged!
David.
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