> 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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