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Photos: 60 years of NHS tech

From hearing aids to pagers

Tags: medical, email, communication, bt

By Tim Ferguson

Published: 9 July 2008 10:49 GMT


This is one of the trolley phones introduced in 1954 which allowed patients to call home from their bed. At the time of their introduction they were leading edge technology and were in use until the 1980s.

Photo credit: BT


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