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Hospitals (Meals Charge)

Volume 498: debated on Thursday 3 April 1952

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10.

asked the Minister of Health whether he will consider imposing charges for meals taken at hospitals by members of management committees and regional hospital boards on a similar basis to the charges levied on doctors and other staff.

No, Sir, but I would expect members taking meals at hospitals either to pay for them or refrain from claiming the normal subsistence allowances.

Is the Minister aware that, as a member of a regional hospital board, whenever I have a meal at a hospital I have to pay for it?