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Welsh hospitals get mobiles

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

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  • Mike42

    1 year ago

    Now we just need to work on the petrol stations...
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  • JamesVincent

    1 year ago

    To my knowledge 2G phones only cause problems with Life Support machines in Hospitals. Thats it nothing else. 3G phones dont affect anything. (Only here in UK being that 3G works on 2100mhz) Because its a lot higher on Frequency scale. My father is a Paramedic and has seen for his self that both his phone make no problems. It's just that Hospitals make a big song and dance!
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  • DanLane

    1 year ago

    While the source of the original ban may have come from a misunderstanding of the effects of mobiles on Hospital equipment the current ban seems to be kept in place by the HUGE amounts of revenue the hospitals make by banning mobiles and renting you a bedside "entertainment unit" that happens to have a phone with an inbound non-geographic inbound number.
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  • juliancooling

    1 year ago

    Another ban that I hope is never lifted is the cinema's 'please turn off your mobile phone because it can interfere with the projection equiment'. I have worked with a projectionist who had his mobile phone grafted to his shoulder while he used both hands to thread up film in one projector while the other was showing the current reel of the feature a metre away.
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  • Anthony

    1 year ago

    It's a step in the right direction, shame there's still a total ban on video calls and picture messages. Being able to see and hear friends and family from afar could be a boon to some and if everyone in the ward (including th patient) is cool, then what's the problem?

    Don't get me started on Patientline... ;o)
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  • Larry Edwards

    8 months ago

    Why are any mobiles allowed on wards anyway. Not only can they distract staff, but patients also run the risk of being filmed when they are at their most vulnerable.

    Only last week I went to visit my nanna in hospital and saw a youth messing about with his phone and making everyone on the ward extremely uncomfortable.

    Hospitals are just not a place for such gadgets.
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