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?

[T_i_B]

1. Sigh

Yet another politican who seems to think that "1984" was an instruction manual rather then a warning.

[oldironside]

2. Lansley is so stupid...

... I don't think he could even spell 1984, let alone read it.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Wow. That would put me into hospital if I started out healthy!

'Big Lansley is watching you!'

Or are they trying to save the NHS money by killing off all the patients through severe nausea?

Anyway- Uggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Reminds me of James Blunt last night taking the Micky out of himself

He chaired Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

He said his music had been played continously to a girl in coma until she recovered. First words she said were "will somebody turn that fucking row off"