“I felt positively embarrassed to get my gear bag out when a flock of trolleys was nearby”

After a stint as an in-patient at a London hospital, Steve has a few radical ideas about the use of on-trolley PCs

I have recently discovered that I am not a hospital person. Partly this was caused by visiting a sick relative, but mostly it was brought on by a few days being fixed up and then cared for on a ward crammed with patients, nurses, doctors, families and hangers-on, porters, catering staff – the food was pretty good, incidentally – and the occasional scribbler in suffering. Actually, it can’t have been so bad, because I was utterly hypnotised by what the nurses were using as an IT system. Each nurse had a trolley – nothing new there, you might say. Except that these trolleys were topped off by a 24in widescreen monitor and adorned with a massive steel shelf, just at arm height, where the keyboard, mouse and sundry paper printouts were…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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