{"id":51937,"date":"2025-08-08T04:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/51937\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T04:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T04:46:16","slug":"guernsey-woman-feels-at-risk-after-nurse-alarm-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/51937\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey woman feels at risk after nurse alarm failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">David Inglis, chairman of Age Concern Guernsey, said the systems were a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for many.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are 1,200 people out there [using a system],&#8221; he said, adding it was &#8220;really bad&#8221; if just one had suffered due to a system not functioning properly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also concerned how any system would work with the introduction of full fibre broadband to the island&#8217;s communications network, replacing the current mixed fibre and copper wire operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Those behind the full fibre roll-out said the system would mean connections would be faster, more stable and more reliable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Ozanne, head of fixed networks at Sure, the telecoms company in charge of the technical side, said the utility wanted &#8220;to make sure it continues to work reliably on the new fibre network&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you or someone you care for uses a lifeline health alarm, you&#8217;re eligible for a free battery backup unit when switching to fibre,&#8221; Mr Ozanne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company had also introduced a new lifeline device that used the mobile network, which it said would &#8220;continue to work if there is a power cut&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Inglis, chairman of Age Concern Guernsey, said the systems were a &#8220;lifeline&#8221; for many. &#8220;There are 1,200&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-51937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}