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

Petition

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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#	First Name	Last Name	Comments
251	Anonymous	Anonymous	I 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	Richard	Boyle
253	Adam	Nakar
254	Anonymous	Anonymous
255	Helen	Watt
256	Derek	Watts
257	Philip	Carpenter
258	Dawn	Manning
259	Sharon	Exton
260	Michelle	vonAhn	I 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	Maxine	Holloway
262	Colin	Welch
263	ron	martin	I 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.