article_snippet: To use a bedside television showing terrestrial programmes at Southport Hospital, patients are charged £10 every 24 hours.
article_snippet: To use a bedside television showing terrestrial programmes at Southport Hospital, patients are charged £10 every 24 hours.
article_snippet: Mike Gillett, whose relative was a patient at Southport Hospital after breaking whose relative leg, said the family paid £140 over the course of a two-week stay.
article_snippet: Mike Gillett, whose relative was a patient at Southport Hospital after breaking her leg said: 'To charge £10 is just unfair because you have nothing better to do but to watch TV while you are in hospital. '
article_snippet: Some patients on the ward were complaining that Some patients on the ward only watch one soap a day, and it still costs Some patients on the ward the same amount as if Some patients on the ward were watching 24 hours of TV.'
article_snippet: Patients are all charged similar amounts for access to TV, phone and internet services, across the UK.
highlights_snippet: Patients at Southport Hospital, near Liverpool, pay £10 a day to watch TV .
  