Comments on: Welsh hospitals get mobiles

By: Larry Edwards

Larry Edwards — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:20:47 +0000

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.

By: Larry Edwards

Larry Edwards — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:20:47 +0000

By: Larry Edwards

Larry Edwards — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:20:47 +0000

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:42:50 +0000

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)

By: juliancooling

juliancooling — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:39:39 +0000

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.

By: DanLane

DanLane — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:31:04 +0000

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.

By: kevx

kevx — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:43:50 +0000

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!

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:55:02 +0000

Now we just need to work on the petrol stations…