The staff do it, but angry looking signs on the wall tell patients and visitors its Verboten! Now it seems these signs are put there for commercial reasons only.
According to a story in the The Daily Mail it appears that the ban on the use of mobile phones in hospitals is only based on commercial factors, not health risks, as many hospitals maintain. The Mail refers to a leaked Department of Health report which confirms there are no safety reasons why mobile phones cannot be used.
Effectively you are being treated like a schoolchild and being forced to leave your mobile at the door, just because the hospital has signed an exclusive deal with a landline supplier that charges a hefty premium for calls - a business model already well established for hospital car parking.
What kind of a government do we have when it is only opposition MPs who seem to care about this?
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