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| Petition - To Scrap Hospital
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In England Car parking at most Welsh hospitals will be free from 1st April 2008.. The Welsh Assembly Government's Health Minister Edwina Hart has confirmed the move, the first of its kind in the UK, which will see charges scrapped or reduced. NHS trusts which do not have contracts with private companies are to stop charging patients, visitors and staff from April 1 - the same date free prescriptions started in Wales last year. Those with private car parking contracts are to be told to reduce costs until the contracts expire. Parking Appeals.co.uk which assists people hit with parking fines states: "Charging people to park at hospitals is an indirect tax on healthcare. "These days, the vast majority of people who attend hospital clinics do so by car, often several times during treatment and the costs mount up. It's iniquitous that they have to pay to access hospital care. Relatives and frontline health care workers are similarly penalised." This petition is to the Prime Minister. We the undersigned wish the Government to follow the lead of the Welsh Assembly and scrap hospital parking charges in England for the benefit of patients, relatives and health workers. |
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