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[Tommy The C5t]

Then fear not because as of this season Radio Royal and St Lukes Sound will be covering every Bradford Bulls game

Although it'll cost you £3.50 to take in the game as you won't be able to access the patientline services without buying the cheapest card for 24 hours worth of tv, internet, radio, phone calls etc.

I'm trying to get a few ex players to join me in the summarising department for when the season starts if they are able to.

[thirteenthman]

I thought people went into hospital to get better?

[Tommy The C5t]

I thought people went into hospital to get better?

Imagine being in ICU and then taking in a Bradford vs Leeds epic with controversy in abundance

[thirteenthman]

Imagine being in ICU and then taking in a Bradford vs Leeds epic with controversy in abundance

It's making me feel quite ill already.

Good luck with the commentating. Hospital stations do a very worthy job.

[ckn]

Then fear not because as of this season Radio Royal and St Lukes Sound will be covering every Bradford Bulls game

Although it'll cost you £3.50 to take in the game as you won't be able to access the patientline services without buying the cheapest card for 24 hours worth of tv, internet, radio, phone calls etc.

I'm trying to get a few ex players to join me in the summarising department for when the season starts if they are able to.

You have to PAY for TV & radio in your hospital? Are there also coin slots on the toilets and tip jars on the nurses stations?

[thirteenthman]

You have to PAY for TV & radio in your hospital? Are there also coin slots on the toilets and tip jars on the nurses stations?

Tis true. You pay for a card which you stick in the side of the TV. It enables you to watch TV, listen to the radio and make phone calls. It's a bit like charging people to park in the hospital car parks - another money making racket.

[Tommy The C5t]

You have to PAY for TV & radio in your hospital? Are there also coin slots on the toilets and tip jars on the nurses stations?

Unfortunately the patients do Craig and it's something that I strongly disagree about in that patientline are basically fleecing them of their money.

I do agree that patients should at least get local/national radio and terrestrial tv free of charge but with patientline they have add all the freeview channels to the tv bedside units.

£3.50 will get you 24 hours free radio/freeview tv/internet and a limited amount of free local calls.
£7.00 will get you 72 hours "" "" "" ""

With the highest priced top up card being £15 for the week.

In addition to the above the patients can add Sky Sports or Bollywood for £5 extra a day.

[jannerboyuk]

You have to PAY for TV & radio in your hospital? Are there also coin slots on the toilets and tip jars on the nurses stations?

Same thing in cardiff. why should it be free?

[Northern Sol]

Unfortunately the patients do Craig and it's something that I strongly disagree about in that patientline are basically fleecing them of their money.

I do agree that patients should at least get local/national radio and terrestrial tv free of charge but with patientline they have add all the freeview channels to the tv bedside units.

£3.50 will get you 24 hours free radio/freeview tv/internet and a limited amount of free local calls.
£7.00 will get you 72 hours "" "" "" ""

With the highest priced top up card being £15 for the week.

In addition to the above the patients can add Sky Sports or Bollywood for £5 extra a day.

You do get free radio with patient line, the TV and internet access you have to pay for.

[Northern Sol]

You have to PAY for TV & radio in your hospital? Are there also coin slots on the toilets and tip jars on the nurses stations?

All the gear is provided by a private company and nothing to do with the NHS. The TV referred to is a personal mini telly, we're not talking about a telly in the day room (if it exists) which would be free.

[Tommy The C5t]

Same thing in cardiff. why should it be free?

Because from my experience of working in a hospital that uses the patientline service is that a good 50% of patients (especially the elderly patients on wards 30,29,9,6 & 3) don't have any means to pay for this service and it's a very sad sight to see them sat in their chairs fed up with nothing to watch.

[ckn]

Same thing in cardiff. why should it be free?

So, those too poor to afford the TV fee have to sit in a room with a telly that doesn't work? Shameful.

Everything bar phone calls should be free once you're in hospital. Phone calls should be charged at cost and not the hospital extortionate rates that make hotel room calls seem cheap.

[Tommy The C5t]

You do get free radio with patient line, the TV and internet access you have to pay for.

That's not true at the Royal Infirmary or at least it wasn't back earlier at the start of the year.

[Ullman]

Unfortunately the patients do Craig and it's something that I strongly disagree about in that patientline are basically fleecing them of their money.

I do agree that patients should at least get local/national radio and terrestrial tv free of charge but with patientline they have add all the freeview channels to the tv bedside units.

£3.50 will get you 24 hours free radio/freeview tv/internet and a limited amount of free local calls.
£7.00 will get you 72 hours "" "" "" ""

With the highest priced top up card being £15 for the week.

In addition to the above the patients can add Sky Sports or Bollywood for £5 extra a day.

Some of the newer wards in this part of the world have Freeview, but a lot of the older ones still have Patientline (or Hospedia as it's now known). It's a complete rip-off but at least Kingstown Hospital Radio also broadcast on AM. Is this not the case in Bradford, Mick?

[Tommy The C5t]

So, those too poor to afford the TV fee have to sit in a room with a telly that doesn't work? Shameful.

Everything bar phone calls should be free once you're in hospital. Phone calls should be charged at cost and not the hospital extortionate rates that make hotel room calls seem cheap.

Once you've bought a £3.50 top up card Craig you get a special number for you're relatives to contact you on and let me tell you that it's around 50p per minute so patientline who not happy with making the poor patients cough up £3.50 a day then charge their relatives extortionate charges just to ring their loved ones to make sure that they are ok and on the mend.

[Tommy The C5t]

Some of the newer wards in this part of the world have Freeview, but a lot of the older ones still have Patientline (or Hospedia as it's now known). It's a complete rip-off but at least Kingstown Hospital Radio also broadcast on AM. Is this not the case in Bradford, Mick?

When I first started at Bradford Royal the old bedside units had an inbuilt radio that ment the patient could pick up the following radio stations that we're pre-set "radio one, radio two, radio royal, the pulse of west yorkshire and radio five live".

These have since been phazed out due to health & safety, infection control and replaced by the patientline consoles that drop from above.

I think it's scandalous that patientline have the audacity to charge the unwell to just watch tv and listen to the radio.

[Tommy The C5t]

All the gear is provided by a private company and nothing to do with the NHS. The TV referred to is a personal mini telly, we're not talking about a telly in the day room (if it exists) which would be free.

That is correct in that patientline pays the NHS a rent for being allowed to provide their service to the patients.

The good old fashioned day room tv does still exist on the old nightingale wards at both sites.

[jannerboyuk]

So, those too poor to afford the TV fee have to sit in a room with a telly that doesn't work? Shameful.

Everything bar phone calls should be free once you're in hospital. Phone calls should be charged at cost and not the hospital extortionate rates that make hotel room calls seem cheap.

Why wouldn't the tv work? Nice bit of hyperbole.
Well seeing as i'm someone who would be too poor to afford this ###### i can't see how i'm being shameful. Hospital is there and paid by all of us to help us with our health not pay for some ###### tv. Personally i'd take a few books along.
The high costs is a different issue and should of course be controlled. Typical monopolies taking the pee, but non-health services in the main should not be free.

[jannerboyuk]

Because from my experience of working in a hospital that uses the patientline service is that a good 50% of patients (especially the elderly patients on wards 30,29,9,6 & 3) don't have any means to pay for this service and it's a very sad sight to see them sat in their chairs fed up with nothing to watch.

As i've said the prices should of course be made more reasonable especially with people who by definition have no choices but non-health services should not in the main be free.

[ckn]

Why wouldn't the tv work? Nice bit of hyperbole.
Well seeing as i'm someone who would be too poor to afford this ###### i can't see how i'm being shameful. Hospital is there and paid by all of us to help us with our health not pay for some ###### tv. Personally i'd take a few books along.
The high costs is a different issue and should of course be controlled. Typical monopolies taking the pee, but non-health services in the main should not be free.

If there's a TV in the room, it should work for the free-to-air channels. To ration the TV to only those who can afford it is shameful.