NHS told to ditch 'outdated' pagers

its not broken why fix it....phones die after a few hours , a pager can last years on one set of batteries, is always looked at...NHS MUST KEEP THE PAGING SYSTEM...AS IT WORKS...NHSPAGERS ITS £6.6M WELL SPENT ON WORKING WELL ESTABLISHED SYSTEM = NHS

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They need to use whatever is the quickest and most reliable service. All Drs would need a good phone signal to use mobiles. I have been in hospitals a lot lately where there is no signal at all. Doesn't bode well in an emergency does it ?

This whole thread should be sent to debt health and discussed in parliament. They are trying to sneak in another broken scheme at the cost of NHS efficiency, while they think we are all looking at brexit. Brexit has not broken politics greedy politicians have.

Maybe they could sell them to another country and make some money for the NHS

Pagers are damn reliable. Getting any type of signal in certain areas of hospitals is impossible and the WiFi isn’t the most reliable in hospitals

Great bt email isn’t a good enough replacement,it’s declining in the consumer world.We need to think far beyond email to what is cheap,secure & most importantly healthcare staff WANT to already exists & is being used in other countries SiiloMessenger

Paging Dr Beat no more. 😥😥

do not ditch it we have a better system for it and it works

Members of our local, and very rural, fire service carry pagers. Mobile coverage in the area is far from great, but the pagers get signal everywhere. They usually survive an accidental dunking in water too, which is more than can be said for most phones.

Lindathomson12 this is a great idea! 🙄😂

PAGERS... you’ll be telling me they’ve still got fax machines next!

If pagers aren't encrypting messages then they should be replaced, but clearly a normal smartphone is not an appropriate replacement. Battery life is argument enough for that. A suite of 3310's might work.

We have been using these since the 80s they are not a luxury item we use them because they are reliable! Mobile phones and an app (made by whome?!) Will not reach the depths of the hospital where pagers users work!

Procure4Health I am told MattHancock faxed trusts the news

And use what instead? Mobile phones at the tax payers expense

Phones would be worse because then you get calls from random bot numbers. Pagers can stay.

Why? They work. They’re cheap.

Headline should read : NHS told to ditch 'outdated' pagers in England ThatsDevolved SayEngland

If it aint bust, don't fix it. The wheel is archaic technology, but circular remains the best shape. Newer is not always better.

Back in the day, it was the must have status symbol in the office... So those of us who were jealous without one, would page them with 'Battery Low'; The joy of listening to them gloat how great they were but then complain, how the batteries don't last candlelight. Hehehe! 🤫🤭

Hancock email someone in an emergency? Oh and in my trust mobiles get no signal .... I was therefore given a pager. Far more useful when people need me

And I bet what they replace them with will not work

All that shit system does is cause pager interference to the ham radio bands so the quicker its gone the better.

No point in NHS phasing our fax machines if departments like DWP are still insisting on their use and information needs to flow between the two.

Med school tip: a pager is probably the last way you can reliably tell between a junior doctor and a medical student on the ward. Other than the latter having a permanent look of confusion and bewilderment

What's a pager?

Read this story ages ago. Can BBC ditch outdated news?

They may be old technology but pagers have worked for decades. You just know that whatever they replace them with will not work so well and will cost an absolute fortune to bring in. 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' comes to mind.

Nooooooooooo!

Still waiting for the penny to drop with most of NHS re: wireless harm ⚠

They should have been ditched a long time ago. Anyone can decode and read all POCSAG messages (including GDPR violations) with 20 quid worth of hardware and some open source software.

Pagers?

The memo arrived by Carrier Pigeon

lol, pagers. That's already in smartphones and smartwatches and it's actually more persistent (aka notifications at hours you don't want to be disturbed). God bless, Proverbs 31

Ummm what's wrong with pagers or do they work in the spectrum the government want to sell off? And nothing wrong with Fax machines either

An aperitif before “NHS told to ditch NHS”

pagers can stay

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