Welsh hospitals to allow mobile use The Welsh Health Minister has said that Welsh hospitals should permit mobile phone use, which makes sense as England has allowed them since January 2009. That was when the Department of Health recommended that mobile phones be permitted in English hospitals, but Wales has spent an additional 20 months coming to the same …
Yet another example of the total waste in people and resources from having devolved power from Westminster to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. So the Welsh are so pig headed about devolution that they never bother to look "over the wall" to see what the others are doing.
Perhaps follow standard IT management practices and now consolidate all the various functions back into a single United Kingdom government.
Who was the genius who came up with the idea of devolution in the first place?
Whilst I agree that some things being devolved are a waste of money, it's your overall attitude which typifies why some of us are pleased to have devolution.
So, were the English too pig headed to "look over the wall" at Wales removing parking charges in Hospitals?
I seem to recall that England was over a year later coming up with that one, and they've dropped the idea now too
I bet for the next 5 years hospital staff will still be telling people mobiles are not permitted. WIFI has been certified safe in hospital environments for years but many people still gulp and question while I am conducting a wireless survey and have funny looking boxes with EVIL KILLER aerials on it. Mind you I kept an ear out for flat-tone when surveying cardiology.
Now we need to get smoking and mobile phone use back onto petrol forecourts and finally were rid this silly unproven scariness.
The reaction from the Assembly is absolutely typical and is why the WAG is a completely useless institution. They absolutely refuse to look at anything that happens in England, ever. As if Wales is so completely different from England that English decisions have utterly no relevance. Either that or they're so desperate to appear different that they won't ever adopt a similar policy for fear of being accused of copycatting.
They didn't allow mobiles? Oops, that's me and all the others breaking the rules for the last 5+ years then.
Admittedly, this is outside of the acute and intensive wards, but in theory there's a blanket ban on the inside of each site. Only excepted for a swathe of creaky old pagers allocated to a huge number of staff that give out more interference than a pile of modern mobiles, a plethora of wireless routers and all the other gubbins that tend to use RF in a modern hospital.
The smart money on the inside has allways been on the rumour that it's the patients that aren't allowed them otherwise they won't use the patientline rip off services - of which the trusts are paid a fair cut.
AC for obvious reasons :)
Grail...maybe you should look over here; we have free prescriptions - just another idea that hasn't made it over the wall to where you live...
...did I tell you about free museums as well...
...and others... damned those devolved countries being able to think for themselves, take some responsibility....
Mobiles have been allowed in most hospitals in wales for years. where's the news exactly?
and the reason we don't have our health departments controlled by england is that ours actually do a lot better - more nurse recruiting, better retention for existing nurses, more spending on equipment and resources, shorter waiting lists, wide availability of specialist drugs, wider range of treatments available, free prescriptions for all, could carry on all day, but bored now.
Wales completely ignored the political hubris, vapourware, civil service f*ckwittery and management consultancy orgy that is the >English< NHS National Pogrom for IT / [Dis]Connecting for Health.
Thereby the devolved Parliament in Wales might easily have paid for itself for the next century or two.
Yes - plainly daft as brushes West of Offa's Dyke.
When my Mother was dying I tried calling the Patientline number at the hospital but could not get connected.
Eventually, I reached the nurses station for her ward only to be told she had died ... minutes earlier.
All incoming hospital calls should be free of charge and be sufficient to handle calls.
Patientline is yet another leach on society.
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