Petition to Scrap Hospital Parking Charges in English Hospitals

PRESS RELEASE: IMMEDIATE
2nd April 2008

Parking Campaign calls for fairness across the country by urging the Prime Minister to scrap hospital parking charges in hospitals across England in line with the move by the Welsh Assembly..

Neil Herron of Parking Appeals.co.uk who are sponsoring the petition 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.
Yet again it is the English who get raw deal and we demand that the Prime Minister follows the line of the Welsh Assembly and scraps hospital parking charges at English hospitals."

ENDS:

Contact

Neil Herron
National Spokesman
Tel. 0191 565 7143
Mob. 07776202045
http://www.parkingappeals.co.uk/

The 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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