HOSPITAL CHARGES
Approval For Increases In its annual review of charges levied for non-Social Security services, the North Canterbury Hospital Board yesterday increased the daily charge for inpatients at Christchurch Hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital, Burwood Hospital and country hospitals from £7 7s a day to £8 a day. The rate for Coronation Hospital was fixed at £3 17s 6d a day. Small increases in the scale of dental charges were also approved, and the charge for acrylic eyes made at Burwood Hospital was raised to £7.
Mr J. G. Laurenson, the board’s secretary, explained that new inpatient charges affected only those persons who were not eligible for Social Security assistance and had to pay a hospital fee. They affected such persons as visitors from countries which did not have reciprocal agreements with New Zealand, overseas seamen, those on workers’ compensation, and motor accident victims for whose injuries a third party was responsible. Persons in the board’s old people’s homes who were not hospital patients and those in general hospitals who could not be discharged for social reasons were charged 17s 6d a day.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31093, 23 June 1966, Page 9
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