Car parking at most Welsh hospitals will be free from 1st April 2008

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Petition - To Scrap Hospital Parking Charges 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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Signatures | Total: 323

 

# First NameLast NameComments
251 AnonymousAnonymousI feel that people who use the hospital car parks have enough stress on there plates without the added pressure of finding money to pay to park while receiving treatment or visiting ill loved ones.
252 RichardBoyle
253 AdamNakar
254 AnonymousAnonymous
255 HelenWatt
256 DerekWatts
257 PhilipCarpenter
258 DawnManning
259 SharonExton
260 MichellevonAhnI have long thought that the car parking charges at the North Middlesex hospital are nothing more than a tax on the sick and their families. Who can manage to get in, be seen and get out of the hospital in less than an hour? While health workers should be encouraged to use public transport, those who are working anti-social hours with poor access to public transport or who are required to provide community care with lots of travel should be provided with parking.
261 MaxineHolloway
262 ColinWelch
263 ronmartinI thought the Government of this Country ( UK ) was meant to govern....why should the Welsh Assembly ( or Scottish Parliament come to that ) determine what is policy for the whole UK?? Scrap the charges for all....if not, all the UK should pay.
264 DavidHolwellHospitals in this area charge £3.00 and that is the minimum.
265 Mr B JMann
266 simonlyus
267 RobertBolt
268 AnonymousAnonymousMy friends father a hospital helper has been fine for parking! The Hospital will not quash the fine, I wonder if this is legally binding or is against EU directive on contract law (Entering a private car park & contract law!)
269 RussellHillier
270 SharonCloseIt is a terrible situation when a loved one dies and you come out of the hospital to find your car has been ticketed. Would you leave the deathbed of your mother to put a few more quid in the meter?
271 HelenBenjaminsA niece recently got a parking ticket in the grounds of the Brompton Hospital, London whilst she was waiting for her 11yrs old boy to come around after having had an eight hour heart operation. Even if she had given any thought to the parking of her car, she would have had no notion to leave the boys bedside and was certainly not in any fit state to drive elsewhere.
272 SueBenjaminsParking charges must be scrapped as it is a charge on ill health just when we can least afford it AND unfair compared with Wales.
273 PeterPowell
274 IANBROWNTHIS IS AN UNFAIR TAX ON EVERYBODY THAT NEEDS TO USE A HOSPITAL WITH NO CHOICE. THESE HOSPITALS ARE BENEFITING FROM THIS AND IT IS IMMORAL. HOSPITALS ARE OWNED BY TAXPAYERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS ARE PAID BY TAXPAYERS TO CARRY OUT THE WISHES OF THE PUBLIC.
275 JonathanPincas
276 JaneRadvan
277 RaySemadeni
278 JoanneHill
279 LaurenBrown
280 SilasBenaiahThis is an unfair levy on the public that have to either visit loved ones in hospital or are in hospital waiting for loved ones to visit them. I am a regular BLOOD DONOR and even that is proving difficult to park in hospital car parks at peek times.
281 StephenAldridge
282 ColetteRusher
283 CliveRusher
284 MargaretChristofides
285 GeraldPritchettThis is yet another government stealth tax. People should certainly not have to pay to keep important medical appointments or visit sick relatives
286 AnonymousAnonymousscrap the charges, not now butYESTERDAY
287 juliaadams
288 RaySeamer
289 AnthonyMaltbyIt is disgraceful to have to pay for parking in Hospital or Hospice grounds, more so in Hospice when you have loved ones to see on a daily basis
290 AnthonyMaltbyIt is disgraceful to have to pay for parking in Hospital or Hospice grounds, more so in Hospice when you have loved ones to see on a daily basis
291 MatthewCurran
292 AnonymousAnonymous
293 AnonymousAnonymousWhy do Wales and Scotland get all the benefits at our expense?
294 PhilipShea
295 brianhomersham
296 stephenmaltby
297 susanmaltby
298 LynnMedlandAn appalling way of taxing people when they are often at their most vulnerable.
299 RobertBromfieldThis is a unfair tax and should be scraped
300 lizannevan Enckevort

 

Signatures | Total: 323