Hospitals: Television

(asked on 1st September 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made a recent assessment of the implications for its polices of NHS Trusts charging patients in hospital for television access.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 2nd October 2023

No recent assessment has been made. National Health Service providers are locally responsible for the provision of bedside television and similar services, including the charging for them. If patients do not wish to or are unable to afford the cost of the bedside television, they should still be able to watch the free to view television via their own devices and local hospital Wi-Fi or in the hospital day rooms or communal areas.

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