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Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 1:18 am ]
Post subject:  U-turn on pledge to scrap hospital parking charges
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healt ... arges.html

Quote:
A pledge to abolish hospital car parking charges in England within three years is to be abandoned as part of a coalition drive to save billions of pounds by "devolving" spending decisions to local bodies.

Which means that because their funding has been hit hard they will actually increase charges.
Author:  JJW009 [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 7:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: U-turn on pledge to scrap hospital parking charges
That really sucks. While I generally applaud anything that puts bums on public transport, hospital can be traumatic enough without having to pay hundreds of pounds in parking to visit your loved ones.

I can't help thinking the government could profit by building multi-story car parks on existing hospital single-story car parks. The general public would have to pay, but patients and visitors would be given a free token or similar. There is never enough parking, so why not expand and profit?
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: U-turn on pledge to scrap hospital parking charges
JJW009 wrote:
That really sucks. While I generally applaud anything that puts bums on public transport, hospital can be traumatic enough without having to pay hundreds of pounds in parking to visit your loved ones.

I can't help thinking the government could profit by building multi-story car parks on existing hospital single-story car parks. The general public would have to pay, but patients and visitors would be given a free token or similar. There is never enough parking, so why not expand and profit?

I would think that there might be planning objections and then where do they find the money to do it? It could have a slow payback approaching a decade. That would mean that they have to front the money for a few years before they have made any returns. A right now while it makes sense long term this government are not thinking long term at all.
Author:  veato [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: U-turn on pledge to scrap hospital parking charges
Visiting? It's annoying paying to visit a sick person in hospital but I can just about swallow that. On the other hand though I had to take my baby to A&E and pay £5 for the sodding parking. It was also the crack of dawn on a Sunday so I had to go to a cash machine, then find a shop that opens that early to get change for the pay and display. It's then a five minute walk from the car park to the department as they've knocked down the multi-storey.
Author:  Amnesia10 [ Mon Sep 13, 2010 9:07 am ]
Post subject:  Re: U-turn on pledge to scrap hospital parking charges
veato wrote:
Visiting? It's annoying paying to visit a sick person in hospital but I can just about swallow that. On the other hand though I had to take my baby to A&E and pay £5 for the sodding parking. It was also the crack of dawn on a Sunday so I had to go to a cash machine, then find a shop that opens that early to get change for the pay and display. It's then a five minute walk from the car park to the department as they've knocked down the multi-storey.

Yes but hospitals looked at this as a great way of generarating additional funds. With GPs now ging to get more funds when they scrap Primary Care Trusts they will not have a guaranteed income so this will be possibly their biggest secure source of funds.
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