Part III Other Powers of the Secretary of State as to theHealth Service
Further provisions as to payments by patients for health service accommodation and services
63 Hospital accommodation on part payment.
(1)
The Secretary of State may authorise the accommodation described in this section to be made available, F1for patients to such extent as he may determine, and may recover such charges as he may determine in respect of such accommodation and calculate them on any basis that he considers to be the appropriate commercial basis.
The accommodation mentioned above is—
(a)
in single rooms or small wards which is not for the time being needed by any patient on medical grounds;
(b)
at any health service hospital or group of hospitals, or a hospital in which patients are treated under arrangements made by virtue of section 23 above, or at the health service hospitals in a particular area or a hospital in which patients are so treated.
F2(1C)
References in subsection (1) above to a health service hospital do not include references to a hospital vested in an NHS trust.
(2)
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