History
Here & now.
At Meridian Radio we are proud to offer what we believe is the best, free, in house radio service that the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital could wish for, together with a service maintained and broadcast to professional standards. Our team of dedicated volunteers are highly trained and enthusiastic in their work, and the essential part of our service is to provide a therapeutic radio service to patients which keeps them in touch both with their loved ones and with the outside world. This we achieve through ward visits to collect patients requests, dedications and messages that are then broadcast via our radio network, and by giving access to relatives and friends for a similar purpose.
We provide FREE a 24 hour service, 7 days each week, through Patientline equipment and the nurse call circuit, with programmes specially tailored for this exciting new hospital. Coincidentally so close to the place where time began on the Greenwich Meridian.
Meridian Radio prides itself on being a prime source of information for our customer clients, the listener. We welcome information from all local sources internal and external, which we readily recycle to our listener. Most valuable of all are messages from members of patient’s families and friends to be broadcast by our station.
As a community station we supply our service absolutely free but the service we provide is not without cost. Our members pay an annual fee, to belong but more importantly are always available for fund raising events from coffee mornings to dances, and looking for the odd donation.
Meridian Radio is no ‘radio club’ for enthusiasts. It is a professionally operated and equipped radio station with very modern equipment and a properly trained, dedicated team, who give their time, and supplement our extensive library of recorded music, with the use of their own collections free of charge. We take our job seriously and select for our membership only people who we believe will be a credit to the service whether they work as broadcasters, technical and support staff or fundraisers.
We hope you will take something of benefit away with you after your visit and spread the word. We hope you are not hospitalised but do not forget we are there when you know of someone that is. Similarly if you think about getting involved, talk to us, not every member is a broadcaster but it’s surprising how many of us thought we couldn’t do it. We have had many success stories, professional broadcasters on BBC and commercial stations, TV and radio but at the end of the day just like the rest of this hospital, our strength is in team work.
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