News Syndication

RSS - What is it?

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like The BBC.

RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the news community. Many websites make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite news, (in one place), by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them.

Where can I get an RSS Reader?

If you do a search in your favourite search engine for "RSS News Reader", there are many free ones out there.

Once it's installed, simply "Add" our news feed by typing the URL of our News Feed into the Reader, which is as follows :

Press releases feed

http://www.southportandormskirk.nhs.uk/news.xml