Paging Sanity: NHS Docs Want Phones—Not Perks, Just Phones

When doctors are coordinating surgeries via WhatsApp and dodging abuse between rota swaps and pizza orders, maybe—just maybe—it’s time to give them a work mobile.

This week I had the audacity to switch my phone to airplane mode, mid-day, no less. The silence was glorious. No pings, no notifications, no inexplicable group chats involving people I don’t remember meeting and memes that should’ve been euthanised in 2014. Five minutes later, Mrs G was convinced I’d died. Theo our cat looked thrilled. And I… well, I br…