HC Deb 29 July 1959 vol 610 cc103-4W
Commander Pursey

asked the Minister of Health why admissions to the Townend Maternity Home, Hull, are limited to patients who can pay 11s. a day; and why, in 1958, the 315 patients were not taken from mothers in slum clearance property who were unable to pay, in view of the fact that this Home vests in him and is operated as part of the National Health Service.

Mr. R. Thompson

The ten beds at Townend Maternity Home have been approved as amenity beds under Section 4 of the National Health Service Act, 1946 and a fee of 12s. a day is therefore statutorily payable. There are seventy-four maternity beds elsewhere in Hull for which no fee is payable.