Patientline is a private company which provides bedside units in UK hospitals with television (which patients must "rent" to use) and telephones. They have just announced that they are increasing the cost of phone calls from 10p to 26p per minute (a 160% increase!). They are quoted as saying that they have made a capital outlay of £60 million and they must recoup this and make a profit.
Pity they can only make their profit out of the sick and bedridden who up till now had no choice if they wanted to use a phone.
Thank God it has been decided by the powers that be that mobile phones are not the hazard they were thought to be in hospitals.
I hope this means patients are not now restricted to Patientline for making calls.
Frankly, I don't care if they go bust!

Eddie