0 the times when you are allowed to go and spend time with someone who is in a hospital, prison, etc.: --
Visiting hours are between 6 and 9 p.m.
1 the time period when you can visit someone, esp. in a hospital or prison --
For example, a complaint might be made about visiting hours because a hospital was unreasonably restrictive in allowing visitors in.
There have been improvements in visiting hours but hospital authorities need to make further progress towards the aim of unrestricted visiting.
They need to run during visiting hours in the evening and at the weekends, so that people have access to the hospitals.
There are, therefore, fewer staff on duty during visiting hours and these still have nursing duties for the more seriously ill patients.
The report of the restrictions on visiting hours se ms to me to be a particularly disturbing aspect.
Visiting hours were extended so that as many friends and relatives as possible could visit those who were held.
Furthermore, it has been arranged that a doctor shall be there at visiting hours so that he can speak personally with the parents.
We have persuaded hospital authorities, by circular and other means, to extend visiting hours and in many instances to ensure that there is free visiting.
