A medical system comprising: one or more medical body area network, MBAN, devices (12, 14) configured to acquire and communicate patient data; one or more MBAN systems, each MBAN system including: the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) configured to communicate the patient data with a hub device via short-range wireless communication, the communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication being within a predefined spectrum; the hub device configured to receive patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14), communicate with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication and one or more access points, AP (36, 38, 40), and determine a location of the MBAN system in reference to a healthcare facility; wherein the hub device is configured to receive AP information from the one or more APs (36, 38, 40) with which the hub device is connected or has recently been connected, the AP information comprising an identification of the AP, a classification of the AP, the location of the AP and the identification of the healthcare facility network to which the AP is connected, in order to determine whether its own location is outside the healthcare facility, and to inhibit the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) from transmitting within the predefined spectrum when the determined location of the hub device is outside the healthcare facility. one or more medical body area network, MBAN, devices (12, 14) configured to acquire and communicate patient data; one or more MBAN systems, each MBAN system including: the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) configured to communicate the patient data with a hub device via short-range wireless communication, the communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication being within a predefined spectrum; the hub device configured to receive patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14), communicate with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication and one or more access points, AP (36, 38, 40), and determine a location of the MBAN system in reference to a healthcare facility; wherein the hub device is configured to receive AP information from the one or more APs (36, 38, 40) with which the hub device is connected or has recently been connected, the AP information comprising an identification of the AP, a classification of the AP, the location of the AP and the identification of the healthcare facility network to which the AP is connected, in order to determine whether its own location is outside the healthcare facility, and to inhibit the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) from transmitting within the predefined spectrum when the determined location of the hub device is outside the healthcare facility. the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) configured to communicate the patient data with a hub device via short-range wireless communication, the communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication being within a predefined spectrum; the hub device configured to receive patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14), communicate with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication and one or more access points, AP (36, 38, 40), and determine a location of the MBAN system in reference to a healthcare facility; wherein the hub device is configured to receive AP information from the one or more APs (36, 38, 40) with which the hub device is connected or has recently been connected, the AP information comprising an identification of the AP, a classification of the AP, the location of the AP and the identification of the healthcare facility network to which the AP is connected, in order to determine whether its own location is outside the healthcare facility, and to inhibit the one or more MBAN devices (12, 14) from transmitting within the predefined spectrum when the determined location of the hub device is outside the healthcare facility.