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How to avoid theft of personal items in private hospital?
Doc_N
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I don't suppose there's really an answer to this one (apart from avoiding taking a mobile in with you) but in case someone's found a solution I'll ask the question.
A relative's going into a private (BMI) hospital shortly under the NHS. She wants to avoid the usual sky-high charges for the use of the phone and data so wants to take her own smartphone in with her.
Obviously, there's a risk attached to that - notably theft while she's undergoing surgery.
Has anybody found a way round that? I'm assuming lockable cabinets in private rooms aren't likely.
A relative's going into a private (BMI) hospital shortly under the NHS. She wants to avoid the usual sky-high charges for the use of the phone and data so wants to take her own smartphone in with her.
Obviously, there's a risk attached to that - notably theft while she's undergoing surgery.
Has anybody found a way round that? I'm assuming lockable cabinets in private rooms aren't likely.
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get her a really crappy handset she doesn't mind losing and leave the £900k iphone at home
Nokia windows phones for example are cheap and functional but ugly2021 GC £1365.71/ £24000 -
Our local private hospital has a safe in the cupboard in each room. I can't remember if it is keypad or key operated. I know one Spire private hospital has key operated safes with the key attached to a large safety pin that you are asked to pin to your theatre gown.
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When I've had surgery in a private hospital the rooms themselves had locks and the room was locked when I wasn't in it.0
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A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.0
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even nhs hospitals I've been in have had a lockable cupboard in (sometimes used for medications)
Plus all the local ones have free wifi0 -
We trust them with our lives but not our phones :rotfl:0
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Simple. Bring the phone to her post-op.
I hate it when patients bring in a ton of stuff and expect us to sit watch on it.0 -
wondercollie wrote: »Simple. Bring the phone to her post-op.
I hate it when patients bring in a ton of stuff and expect us to sit watch on it.
This a million percent
I had planned surgery three weeks ago, walked in on the morning with a small carrier bag containing dressing gown and slippers
Later that night, hubby came up with my bits and pieces that I had prepacked readyThe opposite of what you know...is also true0
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