Seeing how owning/using mobile phones isn't against the law I fail to see how blanket bans can be enforced.
It's also hypocritical, as Bioman points out, hospital employees and company reps/engineers are the worst culprits.
I loathe mobiles in hospital but it is unrealistic to expect patients/visitors to not use them at all.
We also have policies covering reps/engineers not being on-site without authorisation and without them being issued with temporary I.D. but they don't follow these processes either.
I'm sure us "bitter and twisted" NHS Biomeds can think of lots of examples were rules and policies are not followed besides having a go at the little old woman who uses her phone in a "safe area" to make sure her kittie has had it's tin of Whiskers
