1. A communications system for exchanging data between a patient in an article of care furniture and a nursing staff or service personnel which manages a nursing task for the patient or a service function of the article of care furniture, the communications system comprising: an operation panel, a control connected to the operation panel and configured to generate one or more signals indicative of at least one of the status of the patient, the status of the article of care furniture, and a patient request associated with the nursing task, a gateway, to which the control is connected, configured to receive the one or more signals from the control via an interface, said gateway configured to convert the one or more signals into information having a format wherein said gateway comprising a modem for sending the information in the converted format via a mobile telephone network to a receiver connected to the mobile telephone network, where the communication is carried out by exchanging data in the form of data strings, and wherein the receiver is configured to recover a received data string, a monitoring system in communication with the receiver including a computer which is equipped with a program code for processing a database program, and wherein said monitoring system is configured to forward the received data string to a specific recipient based on data in the received data string.
2. The communications system according to claim 1 , wherein the receiver is a first receiver, further including a second receiver, and wherein the communication is conducted as a message.