TV Licensing

Your TV Licence lets your patients and staff enjoy a huge range of TV. It covers you for:

• All TV channels, like BBC, ITV, Channel 4, U&Dave and international channels
• Pay TV services, like Sky, Virgin Media and EE TV
• Live TV on streaming services, like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video
• Everything on BBC iPlayer.

This includes recording and downloading. On any device.

If you’re sure you don’t need a licence, please let us know.

Check which areas are covered below to ensure you’re correctly licensed.

You need a TV Licence for

The hospital premises

This includes communal areas, waiting rooms, the wards (including private rooms) and staff rooms.

You need separate TV Licences for

Residential accommodation

e.g. Rooms for doctors and nurses.

Welfare or social clubs

If these are on hospital premises and are run independently of the hospital.

Other businesses or organisations

If the premises are sublet by the hospital.

Please call 0300 790 6165* if you’re a hospital manager and need to buy more than one TV Licence to cover your hospital.

*Calls to our 0300 numbers cost no more than a national rate call to an 01 or 02 number, whether from a mobile or landline. If you get inclusive minutes, calls to an 0300 number will be included free of charge.