Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of the provision of bedside television and bedside telephones in NHS hospitals on the installation of broadband services for NHS patients.
The National Health Service Wi-Fi programme will meet the commitment to provide free Wi-Fi for patients across the NHS estate.
As part of this work, the programme has liaised with providers of hospital bedside entertainment services; and we are advised that these services will not impact on hospitals’ provision of free Wi-Fi services.