ambulance

The Telegraph reports

An ambulance service has spent more than £10,000 on iPods for their staff. The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) bought the music players for 90 team leaders across the region at a cost of £120 each - a total outlay of £10,800.

An NEAS spokesman said: "The trust has over 60 locations between Berwick and Teesside and prior to the issue of these iPods, staff were required to attend training sessions (usually hosted at our training centres at Northumberland and Durham).

"The use of iPods, however, gives us the ability to roll-out some education via ‘podcasts’ without the need to travel such distances which means that staff are able to spend more time caring for patients."

Just a thought chaps but don't most people use a computer to download their podcasts before transferring them onto an iPod? It would be cheaper to have them listen to the podcast on the computer that they used to download it with the added bonus that they would be giving the important information their undivided attention.