About time. It is total rubbish that mobile phones can interfere with the majority of hospital machinery. After all, you regularly see Doctors and other staff using their phones within the hospital, whilst patients and their visitors are forced to use the expensive lines on bedside phones.

Jenny, Bristol, England

Get a life people, mobile communication is here to stay. Get used to it and get over it.

Paul, Milton Keynes, UK

good, the ban was daft anyway- there is tons of microwave radiation going through every hospital anyway. but I agree they should be kept switched off most of the time. I just ignored the ban when I was in hospital but kept my phone off and went outside to make calls

peter c, Devizes, Wessex

being a doctor myself it is absolutely preposterous that patientline now hospedia has been scamming people for ages. Its a known fact that modern medical equiment is able to withstand mobile phone signals. As long as they are banned in critical areas they cannot cause any harm.

Ajay jay, London, UK

All it takes is for some moron to take a picture of someone in maybe what would normally be an embarrassing position and post it on the web - I can see hospitals being sued for millions. We can't all afford private rooms.

Veronica, Manchester,

I've been in hospital twice in 2 years and was glad that both times I had to be in a side room, as this meant I did not have to suffer blaring TVs, mobile phones and other gadgets. I had TV in my room, but it was up to me if I wanted to watch (I didn't). I only used my mobile to text my husband.

Linda, Fife,

I cant believe that people a complaining about not being able to use mobiles in hospitals. Same as on a plane, the equipment in there will operate just fine in radius of a mobile, but it may (under certain condition) effect its operation. Its not worth the risk, I think they should still be banned.

Mark, Liverpool,

The only reason Mobiles were banned in Hospitals is because of the money being made by the Hospitals and the private communication company with huge charges for the use of bedside phones, and television. TV being sold in 1 day units and not hourly rates. Patients and families were simply Cash Cows!

Dave, WALLASEY, UK

I feel absolutely furious. Hospital wards are already too noisy. Some people have loud ringtones and speak loudly on phones. Phones certainly shouldn't be allowed in wards. Even after serious operations patients are often sent home within a week and need rest during the short post operative period.

Sue D, South Cheshire, UK

If mobile phones are a safety problem, why do so many doctors and nurses use them in the hospital?

John, London,

Patient pressure from those able to use mobile phones at the expense of the ill who need peace and quiet. It is becoming a sick joke on hospital wards, what with radios, TV's,alcohol, and too many visitors around beds often speaking loudly and using foul language.The rush hour M25 would be quieter

BRENDAN GREER, Donaghadee, Northern Ireland

it has always perplexed me why the use of mobile phones in the hospital were never allowed when in some of the hospitals you can see mobile phone mast's surely if there were a danger from them then they would not have them any where near the hospital so they never really were a problem.

James Johnstone , BIRKENHEAD,