Paul Walsh, the Irish Opportunist

Patients can now use mobile phones in hospital wards after government guidelines were relaxed yesterday.

The move could spell the end of existing bedside phone services which are way too expensive. Hospedia, which operates 80,000 bedside phone, TV and internet stations in wards said

We will watch developments closely

I bet it will – rip-off merchants – they charge patients 10p a minute to make a call and incoming calls cost up to 49p per minute! It’s about time, huh?!