ELDERLY hospital 
patients missed out on TV over Christmas when health and safety bosses banned all sets from wards on the grounds that they posed a hazard. The order was imposed at Penrhos Stanley Community Hospital in Holyhead, Anglesey, after health and safety inspectors visited the ward where its small number of mainly elderly inpatients are staying. Patients have been allowed to have their own portable televisions and video or DVD players by their beds since the complex was built ten years ago but bosses maintain the trailing leads “could lead to trips and falls” and say patients will have to go to the lounge if they want to watch their favourite programmes. Mail on Sunday 10/12/06.
patients missed out on TV over Christmas when health and safety bosses banned all sets from wards on the grounds that they posed a hazard. The order was imposed at Penrhos Stanley Community Hospital in Holyhead, Anglesey, after health and safety inspectors visited the ward where its small number of mainly elderly inpatients are staying. Patients have been allowed to have their own portable televisions and video or DVD players by their beds since the complex was built ten years ago but bosses maintain the trailing leads “could lead to trips and falls” and say patients will have to go to the lounge if they want to watch their favourite programmes. Mail on Sunday 10/12/06.
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