Country United Kingdom | Launch date 1967 | |
Availability West Middlesex Hospital via Hospicom Motto "A Friend At Your Bedside" Official website www.radiowestmiddlesex.org.uk | ||
Radio West Middlesex is the volunteer-run hospital radio station of the West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth, Middlesex. It broadcasts to the patients of the hospital via the bedside entertainment system.
Radio West Middlesex has been broadcast in the West Middlesex University Hospital since 1967. It began broadcasting 24 hours a day in 2003.
The station was the winner of the Station of the Year Bronze award at the Hospital Broadcasting Awards in 2007 and was commended at 2008 Hospital Broadcasting Awards in the same category.
Patients can request music via the free phone facility attached to their bedside entertainment system and relatives and friends of patients can dedicate requests via the station website.
Radio West Middlesex is a registered charity, number 1050841.