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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average charge to hospitals by the supplier for the provision of televisions to patients is.
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average charge to hospitals by the supplier for the provision of televisions to patients is.
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The Department does not hold information on the average charge to hospitals by the suppliers for the provision of televisions to patients.
The suppliers set their own prices for the bedside television and telephone services and agree them with the national health service trust to which they are contracted.
The suppliers offer a number of packages with varying costs.
The Department cannot instruct private companies what to charge for these services.
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Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con):
I recently visited my brother in hospital in Doncaster only to find that using the television stationed above his bed would cost him £6 a day. Can the Prime Minister justify why it costs hospital patients £42 a week to watch the television when it costs prisoners only £1 a week to do so? If he cannot justify it, can he tell us what he is going to do about it?
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Philip Davies (Shipley) (Con):
I recently visited my brother in hospital in Doncaster only to find that using the television stationed above his bed would cost him £6 a day. Can the Prime Minister justify why it costs hospital patients £42 a week to watch the television when it costs prisoners only £1 a week to do so? If he cannot justify it, can he tell us what he is going to do about it?
As someone who has spent a lot of time in hospitals, I absolutely share my hon. Friend’s frustrations. It was the last Government who introduced these charges on televisions in hospital in the year 2000. I have spent many an hour battling with that very complicated telephone and credit card system that people have to try and make work. I am afraid, though, that these are devolved decisions that local hospitals can now make for themselves.
In terms of prisons, my right hon. Friend the Lord Chancellor is doing something. He is taking the unacceptable situation that he inherited from the Labour party, whereby people could take out a Sky subscription when they were in prison, and saying that they cannot do that any more. He is also making sure that prisoners pay if they use the television.