Thread: Hospital charges for TV and Phone
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Old 04-04-2007, 10:47   #3
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Re: Hospital charges for TV and Phone
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Originally Posted by Salu View Post
Anyone else have experience of them? Have you stayed in hospital and have used them?
It always used to be a favourite for customers to call up and query calls as they had some pretty expensive calls on their bill for a strange number. Asking them if they had called someone in hospital recently normally cleared that up.

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What do you think ought to happen when in hospital though? Free TV & low call charges? Use your own mobiles?
Use of your own mobiles and TV/Phone provided by a non-profit organization would be nice.

I don't think it's right that prisoners get cheaper calls than patients in hospital (although shock horror charging prisoners is against their human rights allegedly )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6519169.stm

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Originally Posted by BBC
Richard Davison, an inmate at HMP Elmley, Kent, claims the prices - more than five times the national call box rate - are a breach of human rights.
They claim prisoners currently pay 10p for the first 55 seconds of a call, then 1p per every 5.5 seconds after for local or national calls to landlines.
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