TVs in hospital: £10 a day!

Penny-Pincher!!

Kings is £3.50 per day with no concessionary rates for longer periods.

jackieb

The price has rocketed in the past few years. 10 pounds a day is a disgrace. When my son was in earlier this year he took in his laptop and external hard drive and watched programmes on that.

ariba10

Staff in our local hospital have been told that. "Only equipment that has been tested electricaly can be plugged in on the ward"

(Elf and safety)

dizziblonde

I was in for a fortnight when my baby came prematurely - after paying a small fortune for the bedside telly which kept losing the decent channels anyway and hardly worked, I asked about bringing my laptop and some DVDs in... was told, go on, do it and the nurse who I got on very well with as she'd had a premature baby herself tipped me off that when she was in she did exactly the same - including putting her online shopping order through to be delivered when she was discharged.

So I spent the rest of my fortnight with House - who had more patient care and empathy than many of the staff I encountered!

Think ours was cheaper than many mentioned - £10 for 3 days sticks in my mind, but most women bought the cards rather than doing the phonecall debit card thing and passed the cards around to share out the remaining time when they left.

pinkteapot

I hate the things anyway because some hospitals don't insist on you using headphones (I think they should). Hubby was admitted and all he could hear all day was three different televisions from the beds around him.

I'm really sensitive to background noise - find it really hard to tune it out. It would have driven me up the wall.

giraffe69

If we moved to a system whereby health treatment was free but the inpatient made a contribution to their bed and board(with appropriate exceptions for the very old or very young or very poor) then the NHS would have an income stream and a billing system which could included hire of TVs (and I agree that £10 per day is profiteering).

paddyrg

giraffe69 wrote: »

If we moved to a system whereby health treatment was free but the inpatient made a contribution to their bed and board(with appropriate exceptions for the very old or very young or very poor) then the NHS would have an income stream and a billing system which could included hire of TVs (and I agree that £10 per day is profiteering).

A series of paid-for upgrades maybe? Better food - £20/day, longer visiting hours, £20/day, private room £100/day, TV, radio, internet and free landline calls package maybe £10/day? ;-)

PasturesNew

There were no TVs in the ward my parent was in for a month over Xmas/New Year. Couldn't have made alternative arrangements at all as my parent didn't even have their own marbles to play with.

It must be difficult as patients are moved randomly - and you've no idea how long you'll be in. My parent was only in 3 different beds during their stay, but it could have been more.

antrobus

giraffe69 wrote: »

... the inpatient made a contribution to their bed and board(with appropriate exceptions for the very old or very young or very poor)....

In NHS terms that would mean 'almost everyone'.

bazzaboo

I was in hospital a lot over the past few years, I can't quite remember how much they charged but after 10 days I got 'buy 2 days get 1 free' and when I finally got discharged I got a refund on the remaining days I had left over.