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During the Covid-19 lockdown, the NHS was doing some big deals. One such deal was with Microsoft to provide all their staff with Office 365. This includes their email services but also 1TB cloud storage, video-conferencing software and importantly their suite of Office programs. This includes their well known MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more. This was agreed from the 15th June 2020 and will last until April 2023, though hopefully longer.  Those who have used these suite of programs recently may already know, but if you want to use the latest edition of Word, Excel or PowerPoint, you will now need an ongoing subscription. There is no longer a yearly release of these programs that you would purchase as a one-off, now you purchase a Microsoft 365 subscription that will allow you to download the newest edition of these programs. This allows you to use the online, desktop or mobile office apps. Personal subscriptions start at £59.99/year but with this NHS collaboration with Micros...

One of the ways to become financially independent is to generate income whilst you sleep, passive income. The idea is that you invest either some time or money into a certain idea or thing, and that will generate income for you without any further time or effort. This is how generally the super rich, got super rich. People only have a finite time in which to earn (governed by how much you stay awake) so if you can earn whilst you sleep or do something else, that is the dream of many people I'm sure.

I created an app, very basic and first one on Flutter. I hope to develop more slick versions but it was said to just get your first one out so you know the process of creating, uploading and publishing an app to the App stores. I have only published it to the Google Play store as I don't plan on paying £99 a year just for the privilage of uploading to the Apple App store but if I do create another app, I likely will. It has very basic functions but I find it useful as a reference tool to see what are the current guidelines for cancer referrals in primary care. Give it a download and give it a review if you think its good! Please click here to check out the app!

The government and NHS have released their new Covid-19 app. After their disastrous trial on the Isle of Wight, it can be assumed that things have been ironed out enough to roll out for general release. It works via Apple's/Googles Covid-19 API which allows phones to handshake each other over Bluetooth. This API is only provided to healthcare authorities so other app developers aren't able to exploit it to make other apps. It takes the much talked about de-centralised approach to contact tracing, meaning that in theory, the app developer/government wont know which users have been in contact. Countries trying to do the centralised approach have been struggling as Apple refused to let app developers meddle with the Bluetooth settings so have had to adopt this de-centralised approach. Below is the rough blueprint of the two systems.