(in the UK) a hospital bed for private patients in a National Health Service hospital.
（英国）（在实行全民健康保险制度医院里的）私人付费病床，自费病床
NHS trust hospitals will supplement their incomes with pay beds
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Between 1974 and 1976 she achieved the best-ever pay rise for nurses, phased out pay beds from the National Health Service and founded the Child Benefit Scheme.
Bevan himself had to allow the retention of private practice by the medical profession, and ‘pay beds’ within the nationalized hospitals, a typically British compromise.
The clinics will now be allowed to treat private patients, effectively signalling a major expansion of ‘pay beds’ within the NHS.