Health Secretary Matt Hancock says shedding the legacy paper-based devices will improve privacy and security concerns, and enable better data sharing. By March 31, 2020, the 8,000 fax machines still in use by the UK’s National Health Service will be no more. Citing advances in digital healthcare technology and the need to better communicate with patients, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has ordered the NHS to halt the purchase of any new fax machines and to phase out the ones remaining in service.Richard Kerr, Chair of the Royal College of Surgeons Commission on the Future of Surgery, agrees that as more digital data is being generated, the need to securely and conveniently access and transmit the data has the nation’s hospitals eager to “axe the fax.”

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