Free parking for hospital staff to end as Javid piles insult onto the injury of NHS pay
NHS staff, already insulted by derisory pay rises inflicted on them by the Tory government, are being told they’ll have to find the cash to pay for their parking places again from Friday.*
And the cost is likely to be anything up to three times what they were paying before, because of a Tory manifesto promise from 2019.
The government pledged in their December 2019 election manifesto to provide free parking for some patients and staff on their night shifts.
We know the move has prompted at least one privately run car parking company to pass on the cost to daytime NHS workers.
At the time, I questioned why hospital car parks are run for profit by private companies in the first place. Our health care is supposed to be free at the point of use so I asked, is our useless Tory government getting around that by charging us all to get there?
The question was rhetorical; the short answer is yes.
But neither Sajid Javid nor Boris Johnson, the apparent architect of the policy, appear to have thought it through.
With hospital car park firms passing their losses from free parking on to those who still have to pay, it will soon cost staff too much to work there. Or is that the plan?
*That’s if they work in England, of course. Those of us in Wales (for example) get free hospital parking because healthcare here is considered to be a service to the public, not an opportunity to fleece us.
Source: Free parking for hospital staff to end on Friday – Javid | Evening Standard
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Admin Grey Swans seeks knowledgeable people to volunteer admin new Over 50s party into reality, please.
Over 50s party would have free parking at NHS hospitals for staff and patients, no longer run by private parking firms.
Also grant nurses 15 per cent pay rise.
We’ve tried for decades new Left parties only focused on people aged under 40, and the young stopped voting sufficiently for decades and still do not, mostly not even registered on the Electoral Roll.
The Grey Vote do sufficiently vote. Help me to aid all ages, by an Over 50s party win into government in 2024 general election.
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