amenity bed
paybed informal

These amenity beds do not exist in all publicly funded systems, such as in Spain.

To maintain revenue for an interim period until 1974 private patients continued to be admitted into a limited number of "amenity beds", paying for the relatively aesthetic surroundings, but receiving standard NHS treatment.

From the inception of the NHS model (1948), public hospitals in the United Kingdom have included "amenity beds" which would typically be siderooms fitted more comfortably, and private wards in some hospitals where for a fee more amenities are provided.

It was this factor, more than any other, that created the controversial behaviour of a number of government ministers who contrived, when in need of treatment, to procure what were called 'amenity beds' in single rooms off the wards, but providing identical benefits to those found in the private wards.