http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/against-forced-music-in-hospitals.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 4 Apr 2026 12:54 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24539355?utm_medium=rss Local hospital has gone away from bed head tv screens with headphones to large screens on the other side of the room where they are on full volume. Visiting my wife in a single room was extremely uncomfortable due to several rooms with loud tv sound.

]]> Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:32:17 UTC 24539355 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24539324?utm_medium=rss Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:25:04 UTC 24539324 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24538961?utm_medium=rss Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:44:56 UTC 24538961 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24538937?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:44:10 UTC 24538937 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24538312?utm_medium=rss As I approach old age I dread being trapped in hospital having to endure music I hate. As a former clinician in a hospital, I complained that I would have to leave if the dreadful music suddenly appearing in outpatient clinic areas didn’t stop. Several patients also complained. The music stopped, thankfully.

]]> Wed, 3 Dec 2025 01:08:04 UTC 24538312 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24538236?utm_medium=rss Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:55:01 UTC 24538236 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24537255?utm_medium=rss Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:58:24 UTC 24537255 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24537242?utm_medium=rss There is a special place in Hell for anyone who would not only enforce noise pollution upon others, but upon helpless hospital patients, all the more so.

]]> Mon, 27 Oct 2025 08:57:03 UTC 24537242 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24527053?utm_medium=rss Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:28:24 UTC 24527053 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24526475?utm_medium=rss Stop the unwanted noise!

]]> Tue, 5 Aug 2025 07:54:35 UTC 24526475 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24523497?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Jul 2025 02:51:02 UTC 24523497 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24509035?utm_medium=rss Fri, 24 Jan 2025 04:01:27 UTC 24509035 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24506360?utm_medium=rss Fri, 20 Dec 2024 04:07:50 UTC 24506360 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24498612?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:12:39 UTC 24498612 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24497944?utm_medium=rss I feel strongly that I'll people in hospital should not have to listen to tv or music unless they want to. It's not fair to have this enforced upon you when you are ill. P spoke who want noise can listen through headphones. .

]]> Mon, 30 Sep 2024 07:31:01 UTC 24497944 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24489878?utm_medium=rss Please include in the campaign the intrusive music in TV programmes that often makes it impossible to hear the spoken word.

]]> Tue, 20 Aug 2024 06:03:42 UTC 24489878 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24489861?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:12:03 UTC 24489861 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24489574?utm_medium=rss I become angrier and angrier at the idiotic messages on the TV screen in the waiting room of my local surgery. I can’t sit with my back to it because it is used to summon patients when the doctor is ready to see you. Why not send a text? I really hate that my name is writ large across a screen for the entire waiting room audience to read, observe who it belongs to and make judgements.

]]> Mon, 19 Aug 2024 08:06:42 UTC 24489574 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24484887?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Aug 2024 02:18:34 UTC 24484887 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24473618?utm_medium=rss Sounds excellent. I don't want smartphone use in hospitals or grade schools, either.

]]> Fri, 5 Apr 2024 04:23:00 UTC 24473618 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24463232?utm_medium=rss Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:26:12 UTC 24463232 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24449945?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:35:17 UTC 24449945 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24435556?utm_medium=rss Whilst I fully support this petition, I believe that the scope of the campaign should be broadened to demand a respectful, tranquil and peaceful environment on all hospital wards. During my latest visit to Hospital, I found the noise levels to be more akin to a street market in downtown Bangkok on a Saturday night
The constant Beep Beep of alarms must surely hinder the ability to distinguish a genuine cause for concern from that of a minor transitory 'battery flat' notification. I saw Hilarity, Gossiping, and Mobile Phone Ring Tunes appear to be the norm and contribute to the general chaotic vibe of a something akin to a classroom of unsupervised 5 year olds. The general impression given is that of a completely ill disciplined chaos. Surely, people who are ill, perhaps terminally so should be permitted to rest and recover or pass away in PEACE.

]]> Fri, 1 Sep 2023 01:00:10 UTC 24435556 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24435129?utm_medium=rss Mon, 28 Aug 2023 10:03:40 UTC 24435129 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24435058?utm_medium=rss I am neurodivergent and am very badly effected by noise. Where I work I am continually subjected to music pumped out of the nearby brasserie and record shop , the shop I work in is between the two., which creates a mess of noise which in turn is amplified by the ex railway station. Complaints have been made to the property management company but no action has been taken. I have to endure this for the 8 hours a day I work there. I like my job but the noise has become so unbearable I am seeking work elsewhere. Companies seem to think that installing a ramp for wheelchairs makes them disability friendly, it doesn’t, it’s merely a token gesture. It’s time the government acted and took other disabilities into account, this should include the imposition of piped music.

]]> Mon, 28 Aug 2023 04:59:52 UTC 24435058 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24434486?utm_medium=rss Sat, 26 Aug 2023 09:08:59 UTC 24434486 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24433110?utm_medium=rss Thu, 17 Aug 2023 04:14:33 UTC 24433110 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24421621?utm_medium=rss Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:33:34 UTC 24421621 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24416637?utm_medium=rss well done

]]> Sat, 3 Jun 2023 10:53:51 UTC 24416637 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24399080?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Mar 2023 07:37:17 UTC 24399080 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24398469?utm_medium=rss Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:59:02 UTC 24398469 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24377076?utm_medium=rss Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:15:55 UTC 24377076 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24376827?utm_medium=rss So glad you exist! As someone with chronic migraine, i am hyperresponsive to sounds - about from piped music, my biggest bugbear is people using their phones on loudspeaker!!

]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 03:14:12 UTC 24376827 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24358276?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:13:41 UTC 24358276 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24311816?utm_medium=rss Mon, 4 Jul 2022 07:13:03 UTC 24311816 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24308885?utm_medium=rss This campaign has my strong support.

]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 08:03:47 UTC 24308885 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24308064?utm_medium=rss It can be a curse. Too much noise, especially music on far too many radio and television programmes. What has happened to

]]> Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:08:53 UTC 24308064 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24298845?utm_medium=rss I remember the days when hospital corridors had notices reminding visitors to keep the noise down. I was horrified to find patients in intensive care subjected to blaring TV's for hours on end.

]]> Tue, 31 May 2022 01:18:27 UTC 24298845 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24298222?utm_medium=rss Silence is golden!

]]> Mon, 30 May 2022 10:55:09 UTC 24298222 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24293155?utm_medium=rss Sat, 28 May 2022 05:32:06 UTC 24293155 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24292664?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 May 2022 01:49:55 UTC 24292664 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24292655?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 May 2022 01:35:12 UTC 24292655 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24292531?utm_medium=rss Fri, 27 May 2022 03:00:13 UTC 24292531 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24291948?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 May 2022 12:32:19 UTC 24291948 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24291937?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 May 2022 12:07:47 UTC 24291937 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24291921?utm_medium=rss Radio in my GP's waiting room upsets me so much, I can't think straight to prepare for consultation, and I can feel my blood pressure rising, before going in to have it tested! I have complained unsuccessfully over the years, and I'm told the music is to mask conversations had on the phone ny the receptionist, who is behind Perspex and difficult to hear from the waiting room anyway. Awful poor quality pop music channel, 'cheap music' I call it, why not play relaxing and less invasive music without words, like classic fm, radio 3, or jazz channel?

]]> Thu, 26 May 2022 11:42:30 UTC 24291921 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24253034?utm_medium=rss Piped music is nuisance to everyone, but to many hearing impaired people it is disabling as it makes speech impossible to hear at all.

]]> Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:13:48 UTC 24253034 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24227580?utm_medium=rss I do not agree with piped music being force upon anybody least of all people who have to endure it because of hospitalisation, their employment, the list goes on. If it annoys shoppers who spend an hr in that environment, imagine what it is doing to the staff who endure it for 8-9 hr a day 5 days a week. It causes Psychoses like symptoms in mentally sound people, what is it doing to mentally ill employees.

]]> Sat, 5 Mar 2022 10:20:13 UTC 24227580 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24213310?utm_medium=rss Please don't force patients from piped music and radio. It causes many of us a great deal of anxiety and distress, especially 17% of us with hidden hearing disabilities.
Like many autistic people, background noise pollution triggers autistic meltdowns and anxiety.
I would sooner be dead than have to suffer listening to music forced on me.
Please kill music from hospitals include waiting rooms. Let us listen to our own personal music and not forced music that we HATE.

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 09:58:52 UTC 24213310 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24207598?utm_medium=rss They insist on playing loud pop music even in the radiotherapy room in QE Hospital Birmingham while the patient is lying on the apparatus being bombarded with radioactive treatment for cancer. My husband asked them to turn it off and they seemed surprised. Fact is, it's played for the medical staff who are all young and have zero empathy with elderly people. They think because they like it everyone must have it. Same in most health centres and hospitals. Patients don't count in the NHS. Customers don't count in pubs and restaurants when young staff insist on loud music for their own benefit.

]]> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:12:13 UTC 24207598 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24207597?utm_medium=rss I never stay in pubs that play piped music. Unfortunately there are now some people who play music or other noisy stuff on their mobile phones and seem to think it is acceptable. Usually they are ill-mannered chavs, but not always.

]]> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:03:28 UTC 24207597 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24206599?utm_medium=rss Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:15:51 UTC 24206599 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24204377?utm_medium=rss Pleases top piped music throughout hospitals.
Medical evidence is against noise pollution of this kind.
Accept patients' right to peace and quiet.

]]> Sun, 5 Dec 2021 06:06:32 UTC 24204377 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24203560?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Dec 2021 10:13:49 UTC 24203560 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24201580?utm_medium=rss Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:59:42 UTC 24201580 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24196165?utm_medium=rss with blood pressure over 230 the last thing I want is noise.

]]> Thu, 4 Nov 2021 11:56:51 UTC 24196165 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24193776?utm_medium=rss Thu, 28 Oct 2021 08:50:34 UTC 24193776 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24177802?utm_medium=rss Please no music in hospitals.
It well known that music is horrendous noise pollution that causes distress in many people.
Just like food, we all have personal tastes in music.
WE DON'T ALL LIKE THE SAME MUSIC.
I would sooner die than be subjected to music.

]]> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:01:33 UTC 24177802 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24161638?utm_medium=rss Wed, 25 Aug 2021 05:25:33 UTC 24161638 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24153367?utm_medium=rss I don't want any music (or musak) playing when I am in a restaurant. Generally I walk out when I hear it. I want to be able to talk with friends, or to read, if I am on my own.

]]> Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:02:13 UTC 24153367 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24147614?utm_medium=rss I feel all this unnecessary music is one of the reasons so many young people have mental problems, they never experience silence, which older people were so lucky to have when they wanted it. time to just sit and Be.

]]> Wed, 14 Jul 2021 07:52:17 UTC 24147614 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24143373?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Jul 2021 05:32:00 UTC 24143373 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24138954?utm_medium=rss Tue, 22 Jun 2021 11:50:40 UTC 24138954 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24127667?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:02:49 UTC 24127667 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24127662?utm_medium=rss Fri, 4 Jun 2021 10:01:04 UTC 24127662 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24127120?utm_medium=rss This would be terribly harassing at a time that may already be an extremely anxious and distressing time.

]]> Fri, 4 Jun 2021 11:31:40 UTC 24127120 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24123358?utm_medium=rss Mon, 31 May 2021 04:06:31 UTC 24123358 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24109482?utm_medium=rss Sun, 16 May 2021 11:10:34 UTC 24109482 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24102072?utm_medium=rss Mon, 10 May 2021 10:31:16 UTC 24102072 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24092549?utm_medium=rss Sat, 1 May 2021 11:05:28 UTC 24092549 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24066689?utm_medium=rss Please stop all music played. Some of us cannot switch off from it and it has a detrimental affect on us. Thank you.

]]> Wed, 24 Mar 2021 04:12:33 UTC 24066689 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24063173?utm_medium=rss York Hospital plays music in the waiting area for the eye clinic, this is AWFUL, especially if you can hardly see

]]> Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:28:49 UTC 24063173 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24057340?utm_medium=rss Peace and quiet is a strong medicine, why deprive people that are unwell or injured of that part of healing?

]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:16:36 UTC 24057340 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24052708?utm_medium=rss Noise pollution is a form of cruelty particularly in a situation that you cannot escape from. Silence is golden.

]]> Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:37:44 UTC 24052708 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24052250?utm_medium=rss This is an attack on basic human rights. It makes me feel angry, helpless and hopeless.
I would have a nervous breakdown if I had to endure it in hospital.

]]> Thu, 4 Mar 2021 06:30:16 UTC 24052250 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24050198?utm_medium=rss Tue, 2 Mar 2021 06:09:05 UTC 24050198 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24041745?utm_medium=rss Allow choice!
Muzac equals no choice

]]> Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:18:47 UTC 24041745 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24037151?utm_medium=rss Hooray (a quiet one)

]]> Mon, 15 Feb 2021 09:23:40 UTC 24037151 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24028901?utm_medium=rss I find the piped muzac while waiting for my appointments agonising and stressful, at an already unpleasant and anxious time. Please stop it and let us be unwell in peace. If we want to listen to anything we can use our own headphones.

]]> Wed, 10 Feb 2021 11:07:37 UTC 24028901 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24010559?utm_medium=rss Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:18:14 UTC 24010559 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24005893?utm_medium=rss Mon, 25 Jan 2021 04:39:25 UTC 24005893 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24000535?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Jan 2021 10:19:58 UTC 24000535 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/24000499?utm_medium=rss Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:54:33 UTC 24000499 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23994689?utm_medium=rss When already stressed by the need to go to the hospital, it is dreadful to be additionally stressed by the noise of piped music. Most pop music is certainly not "calming" if that is the intention. I have often had to ask whether there is alternative waiting space so that I can escape the extra stress that piped music engenders.

]]> Sun, 10 Jan 2021 07:09:40 UTC 23994689 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23991125?utm_medium=rss If I was in hospital with piped music forced on me I'd probably have a nervous breakdown

]]> Wed, 6 Jan 2021 04:22:11 UTC 23991125 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23985360?utm_medium=rss Please can we campaign against hideous new muzak policy in formerly classy Marks and Spencer?

]]> Sat, 26 Dec 2020 05:50:21 UTC 23985360 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23975731?utm_medium=rss Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:07:25 UTC 23975731 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23961465?utm_medium=rss Hospitals are no places for piped music - the idea is horrific. Patients - inpatients & outpatients - many of them seriously ill - should be allowed peace & quite whilst there. As for staff, piped music, played ceaselessly, can, & does, have a serious detrimental effect on their health.

]]> Mon, 30 Nov 2020 02:19:43 UTC 23961465 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23926719?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:16:22 UTC 23926719 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23926446?utm_medium=rss If people need their own music they can wear ear buds or headphones. It shouldn't be inflicted on everybody else, when it clearly causes distress.

]]> Wed, 4 Nov 2020 12:23:58 UTC 23926446 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23922802?utm_medium=rss Wed, 28 Oct 2020 10:28:52 UTC 23922802 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23922504?utm_medium=rss Tue, 27 Oct 2020 10:57:33 UTC 23922504 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23916884?utm_medium=rss Why do we need music everywhere? Enough

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2020 05:44:55 UTC 23916884 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23915482?utm_medium=rss Everyone's taste in music is personal. For someone in a positon of 'power' to impose their choice on others, whether vulnerable or not, is abuse.

]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:36:21 UTC 23915482 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23914868?utm_medium=rss I was in this position myself when I was in hospital. I think the petition is a very good idea.

]]> Sat, 17 Oct 2020 05:33:24 UTC 23914868 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23912653?utm_medium=rss Thu, 15 Oct 2020 08:02:32 UTC 23912653 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23908879?utm_medium=rss Sat, 10 Oct 2020 04:07:59 UTC 23908879 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23903307?utm_medium=rss Mon, 5 Oct 2020 10:42:44 UTC 23903307 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23898572?utm_medium=rss Thu, 1 Oct 2020 02:07:04 UTC 23898572 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/23897747?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:23:23 UTC 23897747