Nate Lanxon

‘Get well soon’ costs 49p per minute to NHS hospitals

Calling a loved one in a UK hospital? It’s cheaper to call a mobile phone in Japan.

My father suffers from multiple sclerosis and is currently lying in an NHS hospital bed. He’s miserable, as you might guess. If, like I did, you want to call a suffering family member in one of over 150 UK hospitals that use Patientline’s bedside TV, Internet and phone service, it’ll cost you 49p per minute from a BT land line at peak rate. That’s more to call a bedside across town than it costs to call someone on the other side of the globe.

Paitentline’s cheap rate is still 39p per minute. Is this obscene? Let’s see.

My full article is here.