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.
Signatures | Total: 332

 

# First NameLast NameComments
201 LindaSouthcott
202 PeteRussellIts a disgrace
203 peter wsBEATONFAIR PLAY
204 angelastephens
205 LeslieBedford
206 AnonymousAnonymous
207 JohnMercer
208 ChristopherBrockmanCertainly visiting sick relatives or friends should not be subject to car parling charges
209 AnonymousAnonymous
210 AnonymousAnonymous
211 AnonymousAnonymousI am sick of financing Scotland the sooner they are independant the better!
212 AnonymousAnonymous
213 deetindaleI work for the nhs and have to pay to park which I think is very wrong, but to make patients who use our services at time when they are stressed worried anxious and under duress is exceptionally wrong
214 RobertDennishIt is outrageous that hospitals charge for parking. With the Goivernment continuing to close local and district hospitals many patients have to travel long distances where the car is the only possible option. I am a "League of friends" volunteer driver and some, but not all, hospitals in our area also charge us for parking!
215 AnonymousAnonymous
216 AnonymousAnonymousThis is one of the most unfair of stealth taxes, affecting people in their our of need. What happened to the "free at the point of delivery" principle?
217 AnonymousAnonymous
218 ClareKendall
219 VictoriaSaunders
220 PhilPenna
221 DavidDerrick
222 SimonButlerPrescription tax must also be scrapped for the same reasons. While Scotland & Wales have both decided to scrap this tax on sickness; it is a disgrace, both morally & politically indefensible that England is not only keeping it, but increasing it! Scrap it, & replace it with higher rates of income tax for high earners.
223 JohnSmithIts a disgrase, my local hospital is a rip off!
224 VictoriaEdgeThis charge is exploitative and should play no part in a compassionate society.
225 marilynevans
226 SimonHarlow
227 sarahsidebothamIts awful the fact that we have to pay to park in hospitals especially the charges that they are. You could be there for an hour you could be there all day but its still one set price. And what if you have a very sick family member which you go to see every night the amount of money you would have to put into these machines just to visit someone is astonishing
228 JohnBurleyIt is about time that all of the "benefits" and concessions allowed by this government to the Scottish and Welch Assemblies were either abolished or allowed to apply to the population of the rest of the U.K.
229 AndrewPegg
230 AnonymousAnonymous
231 MichaelFloyd
232 carlwhiteley
233 JohnJosephsI would not object to the sort of scheme similar to that run by some supermarkets where people pay to start with but then get a refund provided they are a genuine patient or a genuine visitor to a patient
234 JBeeley
235 IanReidMinimum £3.50 charge at Ealing Hospital is outrageous.
236 AlisterWattStop ripping people off!
237 peterhogg
238 RogerShawI have to visit hospital on regular outpatent appointments, i think it is disgusting the price i have to pay on each visit. Typical of this goverment to allow the sick and lower paid to be taxed this way.
239 JodiPrice
240 Efthalia-ThaliaSini-Spencer
241 IanTaylor
242 BernardBrewer
243 sharontabbott
244 markgeorge-davidsonstop all hospital parking fees NOW!!
245 GregSalthouse
246 BrianFitzell
247 PaulBiggsScrap Hospital Parking Charges In England
248 TerryHudson
249 TonyCocks
250 Nicola

 

Signatures | Total: 332