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Mobiles to be allowed in English hospitals. Uber expensive Patientline be gone!

Jan 7, 2009
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English hospitals will soon have little excuse for blanket banning mobile phones. Only places with really sensitive equipment (such as ICU) will the ban remain.

This is very good news for folk that are in for more than a couple of days and simply can't afford* to keep feeding the Patientline (now known as Hospedia**) machine (or expect their friends to do so at the other end of the line).

And if mobiles are allowed, that means mobile broadband is too... another thing that is expensive with Patientline and really clunky to use (it truly is horrendous!)

My nephew, the one that also has a VOX blog writing under the name Milky98, will be going back into hospital again shortly. The last time he was in we were allowed to use mobiles in the children's ward and I do believe it made a big difference. If I remember correctly he was Googling videogames he wanted to buy (with the money he was given by friends and family) and watching funny YouTube clips on my mobile.

If I could get my Slingbox working outside my home I'd let him borrow my N73 this time and let him watch Nick and Disney Channel whilst there this time... plus possibly BBC iPlayer too?

El Reg: Mobiles finally admitted to English hospitals

*The TV services are offered free to patients under 16 but good luck finding one per bed in the childen's ward!
**what a truly awful name!