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189Hospital accommodation on part paymentE+W
(1)The Secretary of State—
(a)may authorise accommodation to be made available for patients to such extent as he may determine, and
(b)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.
(2)Accommodation means—
(a)accommodation in single rooms or small wards which is not needed by any patient on medical grounds,
(b)accommodation at any health service hospital or group of hospitals, or a hospital in which patients are treated under arrangements made by virtue of section 12, or at the health service hospitals in a particular area or a hospital in which patients are so treated.
(3)References in subsection (2) to a health service hospital include references to such a hospital within the meaning of section 206 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 (c. 42), but do not include references to a hospital vested in an NHS trust or an NHS foundation trust.
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