Sign the petition to end the hospital car parking tax on the sick
Car park charges at Royal Surrey County Hospital Guildford [Image: North Downs Picture Agency].
That doesn’t mean I don’t have to pay for hospital parking – my nearest hospital is in Hereford (England) and Mrs Mike has treatment at a hospital in Gobowen, near Oswestry (also in England). Both charge a small fortune for parking.
Now we discover – well, see for yourself:
It's been revealed that £175 million was made through hospital car park charges last year. This money goes back to private contractors and NHS trusts. But how much of it goes in to health? 0.001%. This tax on the sick really can't go on.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 29, 2017
Here’s the information as relayed by the Daily Mirror:
Patients, NHS staff, visitors and politicians from across the divide last night joined forces to demand the end of crippling hospital car parking charges.
The hated fees … last year raked in a record £175million for NHS trusts and private contractors.
The sick, disabled, relatives and workers were being charged £500,000 a day to use hospital car parks at up to £4 an hour. It comes as it was revealed only 0.001% of income from the fees is spent on health.
The Mirror is calling for the charges – described as a “tax on the sick” to be dropped, nationwide. Notably, disabled Tory MP Robert Halfon has joined the call. Labour is, of course, in support of the campaign:
Axe this tax on the sick and those who care for them. If Theresa May won’t do it then a @jeremycorbyn Govt will pic.twitter.com/QpVWqhRnw4
— Jonathan Ashworth (@JonAshworth) December 29, 2017
There is a petition, calling for the charges to be cut. This Writer has signed, and I urge you to do the same.
Sign the petition calling for cruel hospital car parking charges to be scrapped.
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Liked signed and shared. Have a Happy New Year Mike and Mrs Mike. Keep up the great posts. Jaf.
Signed and shared. Very best wishes for the New Year Mike.
Stoke Mandeville Hospital, in Aylesbury, was sitting on a heap of land that it could have leased but instead, under some stupid Tory, was sold and is now making other people lots of money, while the N.H.S. is, as usual, struggling and the hospital is charging for parking. Heaven help you if, as a nurse, you can’t find a staff parking space, or worse, as happened to me, you are admitted and told that you cannot drive, because of treatment!