Committee Reports > List of Committees > Joint > 1980 > Committee on Commercial State-Sponsored Bodies > Report No. 09 - Voluntary Health Insurance Board

APPENDIX 11

LETTER TO CLERK TO JOINT COMMITTEE FROM ASSOCIATION FOR THE WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL (IRELAND)

We believe that your committee is examining the Voluntary Health Insurance Board. Our organisation, the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (Ireland), would like a point to be brought to your attention, namely that mothers who accompany their young children to hospital are not covered by V.H.I. benefits. Mothers are often charged for accommodation—sometimes at private patient rate. Recently a mother told us that she was charged £17 per day.

Our organisation would be grateful if this anomaly could be considered during your investigation.

22 October 1979