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• Would you pay pounds 7 a day to watch TV? WELL THAT'S HOW MUCH FIRM IS CHARGING HOSPITAL PATIENTS

  - 2009-02-19

  Byline: By HELEN RAE Health Reporter OUTRAGED patients have hit out at huge price hikes for hospital bedside phones and TVs. It comes after newly-formed Hospedia Ltd bought the hospital telephone and television firm, Patientline, when it went into administration last year. And the private company is...

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• Letter: YOUR SHOUT - High bills made me ever so sick

  - 2009-01-24

  Byline: MICHAEL DONNELLY AS SOMEONE who has been recently discharged from an NHS hospital in Newcastle, I feel duty bound to issue a warning. If patients choose to watch TV, listen to the radio or make a telephone call, they will have to use services provided by Patientline....

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• LAW BRIEFS

  - 2008-10-30

  Cartel fined £535 million The European Commission has imposed fines totalling more than euro676 million (£535 million) on nine groups involved in a paraffin wax cartel. Paraffin waxes are used in waxed paper, chemicals, tyres and car components, and the market is worth almost euro500 million (£396 million). The competition...

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• Call costs reduction

  - 2008-08-04

  PATIENTS are set to benefit from a new service offering cheaper bedside telephone calls. It comes after newly formed company Hospedia Ltd bought the hospital telephones and televisions firm, Patientline. Hospedia said it had plans to lower incoming call charges to 20p, compared to a 49p a minute...

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• INFIRMARY PATIENT IN BID TO STOP BNP SITE; You Tube ban, but 'extremist' politics allowed at bedside

  - 2008-03-27

  Byline: By ANNE-MARIE BRADLEY Health Reporter A HUDDERSFIELD hospital patient is calling for the BNP website to be banned from bedside computer terminals over claims its content is too extremist. The patient, from Newsome, says she was appalled during a recent stay at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary to find...

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• Switch off your TV on ward & pay pounds 2.90 to watch ours

  - 2007-12-16

  PATIENTS are being threatened with legal action if they bring their own TVs to watch in hospital. Private firm Patientline is using agents to patrol wards to insist patients only use its service - at a cost of pounds 2.90 a day. But last...

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• Week Ahead.

  - 2007-06-18

  It's the turn of the second- and third-line companies to issue results this week, and with trading statements and annual meetings flooding out, there should be no shortage of corporate news for investors to digest Shunil Roy-Chaudhuri Monday 25 June Finals:...

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• MP's fury at phones rise

  - 2007-04-05

  The move to increase the cost of making telephone calls from hospital beds has met with an angry reaction. Labour MP Sharon Hodgson slammed the sharp increase of up to 160% by Patientline. People calling patients will pay 39p to 49p a minute. The Gateshead East and Washington...

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• Bed calls rocket

  - 2007-04-04

  The cost to patients of making phone calls from their hospital beds is to increase by 160% today. Patientline, which charges people to make calls and watch TV in hospital, is to increase its call charge from 10p a minute to 26p. It said the move was necessary...

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• Call costs too high

  - 2006-05-17

  Hospital phone service Patientline has come in for fresh criticism. Norman Roberts received a pounds 600 phone bill from calling his wife Anna in South Tyneside District Hospital. They are not alone in registering large sums. When a person is ill in hospital it is important he or...

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