I am surprised to read that Mr R D Stubbs had to purchase a mobile phone to enable a hospital patient to phone him. (Letters, April 24).

I didn't find this so easy. My experience recently on trying to contact my son on his mobile was that the telephones in the hospital could not be used to dial mobiles.

I had to make two calls to friends, one was out, to ask them to call my son to ask him to collect me.

The alternative was to walk to a public phone box outside the hospital grounds, after having had treatment I didn't feel capable of doing this.

Would it not be possible to install a call box in the reception area capable of dialling mobile phones?

D M John,

Farmers Way,

Copmanthorpe,

York.

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