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A report looking at communications within the National Health Service said around 130,000 of the devices were employed at an annual cost of £6.6m.
Compiled by digital solutions company CommonTime, the report said pagers were not only limited - they do not support two-way communication - but also costly.
Replacing the nearly 130,000 pagers with use of mobile software could save the NHS £2.7m a year, the report found.
Rowan Pritchard Jones, chief clinical information officer at the St Helens and Knowsley teaching hospitals NHS trust, said: “Pagers represent 20th-century technology and are a blunt instrument for communication.
