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Digital NHS and AI

TheCatWoman

Wes Streeting has announced new digital services for NHS England and that the public will have to be educated about it, will that include teaching us how to use a smart phone, afford a smart phone and how to download an app and not give our data to scammers?

I'm glad I live in Wales and don't have to put up with this nonsense..yet and that my GP's don't force people to use the stupid app thing we have that doesn't work.

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  • In the 1980s, I completed courses on using computers. Back then, we were told that computer literacy would become a key skill  and classified as essential in the same way as reading, writing and arithmetic. 

    I would like to see the government fund or subsidise computer literacy and smartphone courses in libraries, local colleges and schools, to teach adults who for whatever reason have missed out. In my own area, courses such as these have been taking place for years. 

    NHS services online are working very well in my area. I can order prescriptions online or through the app. The app also notifies me of upcoming hospital appointments, and blood results.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    That's great if you have a smartphone, and I hope it continues for you, but I would not like to see them assume everyone has a smartphone.  I don’t have one and don’t want one.  If I want to use a computer I have this one in the house.  I am seldom anywhere else.

    I do not have any kind of phone as I cannot cope with the unexpected and every call with unknown people is unexpected.  It is making life very difficult.  “AskMyDoctor” which my surgery uses no longer works for me because I haven’t a phone number to give it.  Fortunately the surgery allow me to use email.  I can do email because it is not in “real-time”.

  • in reply to Silver100

    It’s good that your surgery is accommodating and I would hope there would always be an alternative for people who don’t want or are unable to use a smartphone due to whatever reason.

    i don’t know if my surgery offers to accommodate people using email, but I know they accept written correspondence, yet that isn’t very practical for some people who aren’t nearby and who don’t smartphones.

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  • in reply to Silver100

    It’s good that your surgery is accommodating and I would hope there would always be an alternative for people who don’t want or are unable to use a smartphone due to whatever reason.

    i don’t know if my surgery offers to accommodate people using email, but I know they accept written correspondence, yet that isn’t very practical for some people who aren’t nearby and who don’t smartphones.

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