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Mobile phones may be allowed to be used in hospitals!!!

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McDreamy · 14/03/2007 18:02

About time! Now we don't all have to go out and buy those special phones that Dr's have been able to use in hospitals for all this time!!

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ellieandhattie · 17/03/2007 20:14

I used mine for dd1 in spet 04 but was told to turn it of and it was on vibrate however same hospital in jan 07 when had dd2 no problems at all and one nurse even plugged my charger in for me as had section day before and socket was a tad high to strech to. We were all told to keep them on silent/vibrate so not to disturb other people and no nosiy conversations but most people tended to text.

But think the niurse on our bay liked us as there were between 3 and 6 women in my bay we all had sections (elective and emergency) but instead of sitting in our beds with all the curtains drawn round us, we had all the curtains open and all of us chatting / joking about etc and nurse liked that therefore liked us (she even colleted the pizza we ordered from the front foyer as hospital food wasnt all that!!)

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 18/03/2007 14:49

Where I work most of the other staff seriously believe that mobiles set the fire alarms off. I've tried explaining that they use the same technology as the doctors' pagers but there's no telling some of them.

Anyway if clients (patients) ask if they can use them I always say "well I don't mind, but don't tell anyone I sais so"

I feel bad for people with the 70p a minute bedside phones.

chenin · 18/03/2007 15:28

In the Oncology Hospital near me... if you walk in with a mobile turned on, some sort of radar picks it up and as you walk through reception a robotic voice shouts 'TURN OFF YOUR MOBILE'. !!

PinkTulips · 18/03/2007 15:37

my hospital allows them on the maternity ward... has done since i had dd 2 years ago

SenoraPostrophe · 18/03/2007 15:38

They allow mobiles in wards in Spanish hospitals (they used to be banned but no-one took any notice anyway). and since everyone uses them rather than the ward phones, it means that they never bother fixing the ward phones so if you don't have a mobile, or don't want to use it you're stuffed. I have an old mobile and relatives who live abroad so I was rather put out about it.

SenoraPostrophe · 18/03/2007 15:39

stripeyknicks: but people can call you on those 70p a min phones. or they used to be able to.

Lucycat · 18/03/2007 15:40

Our local maternity unit has loads of mobile phone masts and the like on the roof - they are so strong that your car alarm doesn't work in the car park - so don't give me that codswallop about not using them!

misdee · 18/03/2007 15:40

Peter has always used his in hospital (on tx unit).

nearlythree · 18/03/2007 15:45

I so wish hospitals had done this sooner. The day after I had ds last yr, dd2 was taken to hospital with suspected menigitis. She was on the paediatric ward with dh in the same hospital as me yet the bloody Patientline phones don't connect with each other, so we couldn't ring each othe rfor comfort or news. He had to keep ringing the ward phone to keep me in touch with what was going on, meaning a mw had to keep coming and getting me. Every time a mw came near I thought she was going to tell me something awful. It just made a very distressing incident so much worse, and I knew mobiles were safe - it was just so the hospital could make a few quid.

SenoraPostrophe · 18/03/2007 15:52

omg nearly3, snap. well, kind of. dd was admitted for an emergency op with a menigitis related condition 2 days before I had ds. poor ds got dumped with the nurses for rather longer than he should have been so I could go and see dd. it was a horrible time. mobiles would be a good idea in that instance. well, decent patient phones in general would be.

nearlythree · 18/03/2007 15:56

Horrible, isn't it? I wasn't allowed to go and see dd2 b/c they didn't know what she had, once they had ruled meningitis out, and dh only got over to me and ds for a few minutes' in the evening. I hated him not being with us like all the other dads and I hated not being with dd2 - at least we could all have talked to each other on mobiles, just hearing her voice would have made so much difference to me (I was v. hormonal, as you can imagine!)

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 18/03/2007 16:14

Senora, I know people can ring in on the patientline phones. But - too be honest a lot of people I look after in hospital their friends and family would not be able to afford this and therefore don't ring.

SenoraPostrophe · 18/03/2007 16:18

it's not 70p a min to ring in is it? if so.

misdee · 18/03/2007 18:38

it is in some hospitals SP, not in harefield tx unit thank goodness.

Cloudhopper · 18/03/2007 18:43

As far as I am aware, Patientline doesn't generate any revenue for the hospital, it just provides a service. So hospitals won't care about the impact on it I shouldn't think.

I agree that it is ridiculously expensive. I did take my mobile and use text messages while in hospital, because I knew that I was nowhere near any machines that could be affected.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 18/03/2007 18:59

Its 70p a minute to ring in at the hospital where my SIL had her baby - it said so on the recorded message as they connected me through. Normal NHS hospital.

StripeyKnickersSpottySocks · 18/03/2007 19:00

The hospitals don't get any money from the profits Patientline make - but I believe the hospitals were paid money by Patientline for been allowed to install the phones.

Lovecat · 21/03/2007 16:07

ordering pizza in hospital?

Sorry to go off topic but what a fantastic idea!! Why didn't I think of that when I was trapped in the ward from hell for 7 days after dd's birth! Our food was all yellow (mash, sweetcorn, potato croquettes, fish in batter) no greens whatsoever and no flavour or nutrition either - I was climbing the walls for some decent food by the time I got out of there!

Right, if I ever get pg again, I know what I@m doing...

nally · 21/03/2007 16:12

I was allowed to use mine when I was in the day centre of the maternity unit at my local hospital

stleger · 21/03/2007 16:27

It would/will be good if it could be used to cut the number of infection ridden visitors too.

Flamesparrow · 21/03/2007 16:33

Now they've agreed on this can they work on the petrol stations?

Mythbusters were there for ages trying to get a phone to ignite petrol stations and never succeeded!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 21/03/2007 16:39

AFAIK, there is some equipment that it may be possible for some mobile phones to cause interference with. Wont go into detail.

Mobiles are great to have when you are in hospital, but, it really annoys the FUCK out of me, when other folk have mobiles and they have the text message alert on FARKING full volume, stopping you/your baby from getting rest/sleep with that highly irritating "beep beep, beep beep" every minute.

Flamesparrow · 21/03/2007 16:50

Oh yes VVQV - I had mine on intermittently but always on silence.

I know that mine can set off my alarm clock and make my laptop go to caps lock if it is too close when a text comes through...

Flamesparrow · 21/03/2007 16:50

Missed out a V there...

VeniVidiVickiQV · 21/03/2007 16:57

LOL, its okay I hadnt noticed you'd dropped a V

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