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Hospitals: Mobile Phones

Volume 460: debated on Tuesday 22 May 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what advice her Department has issued to hospitals on the use of mobile phones on hospital premises. (137478)

To date, the Department has issued two pieces of advice to the national health service on the use of mobile phones in health care premises in the form of good practice guidance. A first set of guidance was issued in August 2006, following a request by Ofcom. The set piece of guidance was issued in May 2007, following a recommendation by the Patient Power review group.

The guidance issued in May 2007 is available on the Department’s website at:

www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4138658

Copies have also been placed in the Library.