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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
That sounds like a step in the right direction. Still unsure why after 20 years + of email, so many GPs surgeries and pharmacists are so dependent on fax machines!
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Because a lot of documentation is still hand written, some has to be like nursing notes, some drugs need to be recorded hand written.
All that may change though with the roll out of tablets across the trusts. They haven't hit our ward yet probably just the inpatient ones.
They are trying to cut down on paper work as all this needs to be inputted off site. I was told the mounds of paper work alone just from the back care advisors that do my key training that there is a small wharehouse full of paper work about 100,000 folders going back 25 years that is all still waiting to be inputted into digital format and they are getting through it slowly.