amenity bed

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amenity bed

(Medicine) (in Britain) a hospital bed whose occupant receives free treatment but pays for nonmedical advantages, such as privacy. Also called (informal): pay bed

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In 1952 and 1954 I, myself, paid for an amenity bed in an NHS maternity hospital.

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Single rooms (or amenity beds as they are called) are most often available to new mothers on maternity wards.

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