Submitted on Sunday 20th October 2013
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
To call on MPs to ensure that hospital in patients have access to free television and broadband
NHS patients in the UK currently have no access to either television or broadband without paying. The current system is expensive, unreliable, and cuts off those who cannot afford to pay over £20 for a weeks worth of television that is Free to Air.
Many people have access to the Internet and television via mobile phones and tablets, but even in cities the fabric of the building is such that in all but the beds next to windows, patients receive poor or no signal.
In this age where successive governments have called for super fast broadband to be rolled out countrywide, they are neglecting those in most need.
I call on the government to scrap the current system and introduce free television ( for free to air channels) and a free broadband connection for each hospital bed.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
Please see: Return free television to hospital patients
18.190.152.38 Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:37:08 +0100
