>> With a mobile I tell the guys that I am very easy to get.
>> They pick up the bendy thing attached to the curly wire and press the
>> button marked '0'. They ask for me and within seconds we are
>> speaking. Guaranteed not to be on a golf course, incidentally.
A colleague of mine and I when we were HOs in Manchester got a pair of the
then new (but now standard) long range cordless mobiles and put them in the
on call rooms - they then worked throughout the medical wing and mess
room/toilets (but not sadly the canteen).
This mean nurses and other docs could call us on our on-call room number and
get hold of us wherever we were.
We did a study into how often we were bleeped before introduction, and how
ofter we were called after introduction. We also measured other HOs average
time away from the duty they were performing to answer their bleep, and how
long it took when called directly instead.
The data showed a time saving of about 1-2 hours per on call day.
We were going to try and get it published, but the DoH issued a blanket ban
on cordless as well as mobile phones and we had to withdraw them.
I think QMH in Dunfermline now gives it's staff cordless phones instead of
bleeps.
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