NHS pagers are FINALLY set to retire. But there is an alternative.

Hands up who feels a good deal of nostalgia for the old tech?

You know the ones — the Blackberry that first connected us, as if by magic, to the internet while cruising the commute home on the train; the first car phone that took four tins of spinach just to lift and, incredibly, was not illegal to use; and of course, the trusty pager.

People in the 90s simply could not be informed of a wife in labour, nor could a consultant be located for urgent open-heart surgery without frantically searching a pocket to respond to the critical beep of information arriving by way of S I N G L E L I N E T E X T (which couldn’t be replied to).

Haven’t times changed?

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