PUBLIC HOSPITAL FEES
REQUEST FOB UNIFORMITY,
A circular sent by the Minister of Public Health (the Hon. G. W- Russell) to Hospital Boards throughout the Dominion requests that they should agreo to a uniform maintenance charge of £2 2s a week for patients. At present the average is about £1 15s, but in sevearl small hospitals they run as high as £3 3s. In the case of members of friendly societies it is recommended that the weekly fee should be £1-Is.
In his recent statement of hospital revenue for the year 1917, the Minister included £231,000 ("fees payable" by patients). Enquiry shows that, the amount paid was much below the sum "payable." For that year the gross amount payable was £258,478, but only £102,271 was collected, and this sum included a- number of payments by the Defence Department for soldier patients. Ordinarily the boards receive, on an average, about one-thir dof the amount payable by patients. The average cost of maintenance of a patient is about £2 a week (excluding' capital charges).
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1918, Page 7
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172PUBLIC HOSPITAL FEES Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 45, 21 August 1918, Page 7
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