NHS: Car Parks

Thinking of becoming ill? You'd better work out if you can afford to first. While deciding which hospital you'd like to contract a superbug at, you may want to work out which one is going to charge you the most while you languish in the waiting room waiting to see a consultant whose running behind schedule because their golf game toollonger than expected.

Last year, the NHS took £95m in car parking fees with some hospital trusts earning over £2m each. Cancer sufferers, particularly those with regular treatements and the need for regular hospital visits, are paying hundreds of pounds per year in car park charges. Since cancer sufferers are often unable to work because of their illness and treatment, thus reducing their earning capacity considerably, doesn't it seem barbaric to tax them hundreds of pounds for their hospital visits and taking away from them money that could be better used in paying the bills?

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6468251.stm