Mobile Devices and Health:
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This leaflet offers the latest information and advice based on both current knowledge and remaining uncertainties so that people can make their own informed choices about how to use mobile devices. It also outlines further work that is under way.
Mobile devices are low power devices that emit and receive radio waves. These connect each phone to a network of base stations, so that users can make and receive calls. Radio waves have been used for communication for over 100 years. But the speed with which mobile devices have become so widely used is unprecedented. This has led to public concern about their possible impact on health.
This information is published jointly with Scottish Executive; The Northern Ireland Executive; and The National Assembly for Wales
Mobile Phone Base Stations and Health:
Description:
Over half the people in Britain have mobile devices. Base stations are radio transmitters and receivers which form an essential link in mobile phone communications. Without base stations in the right locations, mobile devices will not work. But concerns about health are sometimes expressed by people who live or work close to where base stations are sited. This leaflet outlines some of the measures taken to address health concerns about mobile phone service provision.
This leaflet is jointly published with the Scottish Executive; The Northern Ireland Executive; and The National Assembly for Wales
Using Mobile Devices in Hospitals
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The Department has issued new mobile phone usage good practice guidance, which replaces all previous guidance issued by the Department.
The Department wishes to reflect the rapidly developing principles of patient choice in the matter of mobile phone usage. It therefore considers that the working presumption should be that patients will be allowed the widest possible use of mobile devices in hospitals where the NHS trust's local risk assessment indicates that such use would not represent a threat to:
- patients' own safety or that of others,
- the operation of electrically sensitive medical devices in critical care situations,
- the levels of privacy and dignity that must be the hallmark of all NHS care.
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