Tv / WiFi in hospital prices - covid changes

[Organisedchaos2022]

We spend a lot of time in hospital with DD on childrens ward. The tv had always been costly at nearly 8.00 for 24 hours on all wards.
Apart from children we did get it free certain times after these times to watch movies on the tv it was 8.00 a day.
To her WiFi premium which is the one you need to be able to stream also costs 7.95.
During covid there made all of these free which was tad confusing as there is always people isolated in cubicles not sure why covid was a reason to all of a sudden care.
AIBU to think this could be something they permanently change ?

@Caspianberg sorry that might have read wrong they are any age but the from
Onset of condition it’s an 18 month - 2 year admission if they survive. Most of the younger children sadly are more likely to have no parents there for a huge amount of the time. Due to the length of admission and because it’s specialty you are often miles away from home.
So mainly parents visit a few times a week. Some who don’t have other children at hike do stay.

I don’t think the NHS should be footing the bill for TV.

However, I do have one wish for provision in hospitals and that is some means of communication with the outside world.

I’ve recently had a lot of appointments in two different local hospitals in the North of England. Neither have 3G, 4G or basic mobile signal for calls or texts within their buildings. There appears to be NHS free WiFi. However, being connected to it doesn’t facilitate email or WhatsApp for some reason.

This has meant I’ve had to wait until my appointment has finished to leave the building and let my lift know that I’m done and then wait for them to come and pick me up (waiting between 30 minutes and 1.5h depending on which hospital I was at.)

I hate relying on people for lifts anyway but it's made worse when you can't keep them in the loop wrt to how long you'll be (some of my appointments have lasted 10 minutes and others 2 hours, and I'm never given any indication of which it'll be until I go into see the clinic team).

Our hospitals the same as INeedNewShoes no wifi at all except in the palliative care/stroke buildings, no phone signal in 95% of the hospital either.

I've never seen tv's on wards in our hospital, only ever seen one in the scbu parent break room, free as it's paid via donations I believe.

Parking free though.

@Organisedchaos2022

You want it pay for it ? Is easier said than done when it’s a long term ward with very chronically ill children in it. As well as 10.00 for 24 hour parking plus food expensives and the over inflated expensive cafes. Plus then having to pay 8-16.00 a day to keep a child entertained who is stuck in bed it isn’t always that easy for many.

I get what your saying but I was in hospital for months and still had to pay for it. The nhs definitely shouldn’t pay for your entertainment. Although the parking is different not sure what hospital you mean but in my hospital I got free parking for myself and my parents or whoever visited me. We got given a token from the sister in charge. Could you try that especially if it’s children involved. Most hospitals have a family room with a tv in too. I know mine does and it has sofas, board games and all day tv.