Hospital patients face non-stop Andrew Lansley on their televisions

[oldironside]

Andrew Lansley isn't most people's idea of bedside entertainment, so pity the patients in NHS hospitals across the country who are having to watch the health secretary addressing them every three or four minutes on monitors above their beds.

The Conservative cabinet minister's face appears on bedside entertainment systems on a continuous loop saying that their care "really matters to me" and asking them to thank NHS staff.

If they want to turn him off, they have to register under a system which sees patients charged more than £5 a day to access TV, email and phone services. In some wards with multiple beds, the screens have the effect of a television showroom, reports the Independent.

One man who visited an elderly relative told the newspaper. "It was eerie. Everywhere you looked there was Andrew Lansley. My mother-in-law had to keep topping up the machine just to escape him."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/22/hospital-patients-andrew-lansley-televisions

Jesus wept. I thought we'd abolished torture back in the 17th Century. Does this mean the Tories are now adopting Stuart values?