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Hospital radio stations are staffed and managed by volunteers ( more than 2, 500 in the UK alone ), and each volunteer is commonly attached to a particular weekly programme.

Some broadcast, others work to keep the station's record library or computer systems up-to-date, but most also visit the hospital wards, to discuss the music that patients would like to hear, and to provide an opportunity for the latter to converse with a member of non-medical staff.