# NHS Hack Day presses for free wi-fi | Digital Health

**Category:** [marcus-baw](https://bawmedical.co.uk/c/marcus-baw/27)
**Created:** 2013-04-28 23:00 UTC
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## Post #1 by @marcusbaw

https://www.digitalhealth.net/2013/04/nhs-hack-day-presses-for-free-wi-fi/

> Two thirds of clinicians believe that having access to wi-fi would improve patient care, the first results of an ongoing nationwide survey on wi-fi in hospitals have suggested.
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> The NHS Hack Day community created the survey to find out how many clinicians have access to wi-fi, how many patients have access, and how this impacts patient care.
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> The [survey](http://bawmedical.co.uk/lime/index.php/481147/lang-en) is being run jointly by NHS Hackday, OpenGPSoC and [HANDI](http://handihealth.org/survey-of-nhs-wifi-access-for-nhs-staff/). It was set up after discussions on the hack day’s Google group showed that most hospitals did not have free wi-fi access for clinicians and several complained that this was stifling app innovation.
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> Commenting on the Google group, Dr Marcus Baw, a locum GP who set up the survey, said that non-consultant doctors, who provide the majority of staffing in hospitals, are not given access to wi-fi.
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> “Oh yes there are networks, there’s hardly a corridor in my hospital without a Cisco router nailed to the roof, but they seem to be for managerial types and possibly consultants. Not the likes of me,” he said.
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> The survey, which is the first step in a campaign towards free wi-fi for clinicians, will run until further notice.
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> So far, results from 538 respondents show that 149 have no wi-fi network whatsoever in their place of work. A further 125 have said that their organisation has a free wi-fi network, but they do not have access to it.
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> Only 127 have said that they have access to wi-fi in the clinical setting in which they work. 

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