Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

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Bill

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?
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" wrote in message
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Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

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Bill

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

This is a well known money making scam. In the old days they used to fleece
you for phone calls as well, they now only fleece the folk ringing in to the
bedside phone. One hospital in the west country charges 32 pence a minute
when anyone calls the phones.

And don't ask about the internet terminals in the rooms..

Brian

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" wrote in message
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Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

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Bill

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
This is a well known money making scam. In the old days they
used to fleece you for phone calls as well, they now only
fleece the folk ringing in to the bedside phone. One hospital
in the west country charges 32 pence a minute when anyone calls
the phones.

And don't ask about the internet terminals in the rooms..

Brian



It's even worse outgoing. You have to pay up front the duration
for which you would have to guesstimate. My son had a bike
accident at Cadwell Park a few years ago and ended up in Grimsby
Hospital. This was before mobiles were permitted so I loaded his
bedside unit with £20, of which in his stay he used just over £8.
I tried and I tried and I tried to get a refund of the balance
(less a small 'service charge') which you are supposed to be able
to do, but in the end gave up. It is not helped by the fact that
the only way you can contact the organisation - I won't give the
name but it began with P and ended with line - is from the
bedside phone. Thus if you ask for the refund when you are
leaving and they don't pay up it is almost impossible to contact
them thereafter to chase it.

Doh!


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Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

On 06/06/2010 07:05, housetrained wrote:
How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I maintain the TV system at a BUPA hospital in Northern Ireland here.
They have freeview along with 6 Sky channels including SKY Sports 1,2
and 3. No service cost whatsoever.

Glenn.

--
www.glennmillar.plus.com
www.FixMyAerial.com

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

On Jun 6, 2:20*pm, Glenn Millar wrote:
On 06/06/2010 07:05, housetrained wrote:

How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I maintain the TV system at a BUPA hospital in Northern Ireland here.
They have freeview along with 6 Sky channels including SKY Sports 1,2
and 3. No service cost whatsoever.

Glenn.

--www.glennmillar.plus.comwww.FixMyAerial.com

I maintain a number of prison systems. They provide pretty much the
same as you describe above,plus a few more Sky channels, various
ethnic channels, and in-house info channels. It seems that we treat
our criminals better than our NHS patients.

Bill

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...l%20rip%20off/

Laptop, 3G dongle, iPlayer etc. Simples.

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" tellywith not many channels?
 

On Sunday, June 6th, 2010 at 08:43:51h -0700, Wright's Aerials speculated:

It seems that we treat our criminals better than our NHS patients.

However, if you are subsequently found to be not guilty of the crime
then you will be sent the bill for your stay.

http://www.dailymail.co.UK/news/article-458006/Man-wrongly-jailed-years-charged-7-000-Home-Office-board-lodging.html

http://www.independent.co.UK/news/uk/crime/wrongly-convicted-men-must-pay-lodgings-costs-for-prison-440269.html

Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...l%20rip%20off/

Laptop, 3G dongle, iPlayer etc. Simples.

Yes, with i-player consuming around 0.75GB per hour, you should be able to
notch up an 80 quid/month data usage bill with OrangeVodaO23Tmobile

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Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?
 

On 06/06/2010 17:46, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...l%20rip%20off/

Laptop, 3G dongle, iPlayer etc. Simples.

Yes, with i-player consuming around 0.75GB per hour, you should be able
to notch up an 80 quid/month data usage bill with OrangeVodaO23Tmobile

That's assuming you're going to be watching TV all of the time. If you
had a laptop with you, there's plenty else to do.