In many instances Health Trusts have contracted out the provision of bedside televisions (and phone services) to independent companies. Many providers of integrated bed-head systems are already planning for switchover, but there may be television sets in other areas of the hospital such as waiting rooms, staff areas and staff accommodation that will also need to be converted to digital.
It is possible to use ordinary domestic television sets, on many hospital systems. However, there are televisions with features particularly suited to hospitals including:
Some televisions with alarms clocks extract the time from Teletext signals which are only available on analogue transmissions. At present most digital receivers do not generate any form of Teletext time signal for setting the clock.
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