https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/22/mandory_eprescriptions_is_the_easy_bit_when_it_comes_to_a_digital_nhs/ > Analysis Plans for a "fully paperless" National Health Service have been announced and re-announced countless times – most recently they promised we'd be paper-free "within the decade". > But then again, four years ago the NHS was telling us it would happen by 2020, and in 2013 former UK health secretary Jeremy Hunt said it would happen as early as 2018.