FEES AT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Mr J.B. Jeyaretnam asked the Minister for Finance and Minister for Health whether the Ministry of Health has approved the fees to be charged to patients at the National University Hospital when it opens and, if the fees have been approved, to state them.

Dr Hu Tsu Tau: The National University Hospital (NUH) is owned and run by the National University Hospital (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a fully-owned subsidiary of Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd. As a private company, its management is responsible to the Board of Directors for the operation of the hospital, including the fixing of its various fees. These fees are not required to be approved by the Ministry of Health.

A copy of the NUH schedule of fees is attached in the Annex (Annex C) (Cols. 261 - 262). The charges for the subsidised 6-bedded wards are very comparable to the charges applicable to the 10-bedded class B2 wards in the Singapore General Hospital. Annex C - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WARD, OPERATION, DIAGNOSTIC, OUTPATIENT AND OTHER CHARGES (Cols. 261 - 262)