At Calderdale, we have DECT phones that work throughout the hospital. I have
had my office phone replaced by a DECT and it is excellent. The one thing
they didn't think out when they built our new hospital was that, because of
all the metal infrastructure, mobile phones don't work in A&E. Because we
now have DECT phones, the consultants are now contactable wherever we are.
Andy
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From: Accident and Emergency Academic List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Robbie Coull
Sent: 20 September 2002 23:23
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Subject: Re: Mobile phones and medical equipment
> Robbie what would the cost be for about 6 phones in the dept. and what is
the
> range of these away from base. I know I sometimes feel a bit vulnerable
when
> I go to the library or the dining room and it would be good to be
instantly
> contactable with certain advantages.
You can just use standard DECT cordless phones (<£200 for two handsets and a
base station). Many have belt clips built in and you can get very small
handsets now. A mobile phone holster for your belt is useful.
You need to bear in mind a few issues:
(1) it needs to be DECT to prevent analogue scanners listening in
(2) the range is 300m over flat open ground, but depending on the thickness
of your walls (and any shielding installed) this rarely reaches 50m indoors
so a base station may only cover a small department. (We were lucky in our
pilot because we had one of those old 2 story H shaped medical units with
the on call room dead in the middle of the H)
(3) the phone may require an adaptor (or may not work at all) on some PBX
phone systems.
When we did the pilot we were given phones by one of the manufacturers, but
they were unable at that time to register phones with more than one base
station (we wanted repeater stations in the canteen block and the A&E).
I'd be interested to know how hospitals like QMH and the Welsh one
mentioned, obtain full coverage with large numbers of handsets (I'm assuming
technology has now moved on, so that you can set up a network of base
stations to cover a larger area).
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Robbie Coull
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