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Just been reading that there has been an  INCREASE of parking charges at almost half of NHS trusts. One trust has increased the cost from £3.50 to £8 for a five hour stay.  What I find most disgusting is that the trusts are only receiving about 15% of the money the rest going to parking companies. I bet these companies pay the NMW and that the bosses and shareholders are getting richer.  Before there was talk about the money was used for helping the NHS, well it seems it is more for helping the car parking companies get richer.  I know Corbyn has said they will stop the charges if/when they get in Government but will they, can you trust any politician? 

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hospital-car-park-charges-increase-13780478

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34 minutes ago, iansheff said:

Just been reading that there has been an  INCREASE of parking charges at almost half of NHS trusts. One trust has increased the cost from £3.50 to £8 for a five hour stay.  What I find most disgusting is that the trusts are only receiving about 15% of the money the rest going to parking companies. I bet these companies pay the NMW and that the bosses and shareholders are getting richer.  Before there was talk about the money was used for helping the NHS, well it seems it is more for helping the car parking companies get richer.  I know Corbyn has said they will stop the charges if/when they get in Government but will they, can you trust any politician? 

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hospital-car-park-charges-increase-13780478

Can you trust any politician?  I think some are certainly more trustworthy than others, by examining their track record of actions in serving the community they serve, and not their words.  That is a wider topic!

 

But the issue of outsourcing of services is a reality of today.  It is not a specialist area of mine, nor do I have responsibility of an NHS Trust... but until we have more ethic in our working practices this kind of thing will continue. There is nothing stopping an NHS Trust from finding a solution that works for all, but I am sure they would feel under pressure given the constant cuts and level of under-funding of the NHS. Hence a wider solution to the NHS is key to enable hospital car parking to become free.  I would suggest that tickets that can be validated within the hospital to ensure genuine hospital users only benefit would be part of such a solution.

 

 

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Fund the NHS adequately and stop allowing NHS business managers to commercial aspects of the service.

 

Then this nonsense goes away.

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16 minutes ago, I1L2T3 said:

Fund the NHS adequately and stop allowing NHS business managers to commercial aspects of the service.

 

Then this nonsense goes away.

Don't disagree with that but I recently read something about how many operations are cancelled each year because the patient doesn't turn up, it costs millions. I'll try and dig it out.

 

Couple that with idiots turning up at A&E, and we aren't helping ourselves much.

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It isn't funded adequately, and we need to decide how we are going to pay for the range of miraculous ( and expensive) treatments there are now available. 

On a here-and-now, they need cash. I'd question what kind of business manager outsources in a deal that only returns 15%, that seems dodgy to me.

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Didn't Theresa May promise to reduce hospital parking charges? What happened to that? 

 

Can they just ignore her?

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2 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Didn't Theresa May promise to reduce hospital parking charges? What happened to that? 

 

Can they just ignore her?

It looks like they can.

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The NHS is funded adequately - but when they like other public sector employees have to jump through hoops of H&S before they can even order stationery they will always be looking for ways to save money.The stories of £200 toilet seats may be exaggarated but they are based on an element of truth,you or I and our employers can take a reasonable guess that a £30 item from B&Q will work,that still can't be done at the NHS.

But they can sub contract cleaners and parking just like civilian based jobs on the Police and Fire Services.

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Just been on BBC News. Everything that's been said on here was mentioned, except the fact that the hospital only gets 15% of the charge. 

 

Could the OP give us a source for that? It's important as I think most people think most of their money goes to help fund the hospital.

 

It's probably the only thing that stops them from rioting!

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5 hours ago, I1L2T3 said:

Fund the NHS adequately and stop allowing NHS business managers to commercial aspects of the service.

 

Then this nonsense goes away.

Stop the wastage in the NHS, the massive overpaying on basic items where the costs of things like toilet rolls are ridiculously inflated. 

 

Stop paying obsence hourly rates for agency nurses (a family member works for the NHS and has come across agency nurses on £45+ per hour) & strike off for life any member of staff caught committing "time-sheet fraud" where they call in sick for their Trust shift and go do an agency shift at another hospital. 

 

The NHS isn't as underfunded as the hospital chiefs would have you believe. 

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1 hour ago, Anna B said:

Just been on BBC News. Everything that's been said on here was mentioned, except the fact that the hospital only gets 15% of the charge. 

 

Could the OP give us a source for that? It's important as I think most people think most of their money goes to help fund the hospital.

 

It's probably the only thing that stops them from rioting!

It is in the link I posted.

On the BBC news it mentioned 15%

 

Bosses in parts of the country have even doubled the cost of stays – helping to rake in £226million last year, with a huge chunk going to the private firms that run the sites and only 15% into the health service.

 

But NHS Digital revealed for the first time recently that just 15% of this goes back in to the health service.

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10 hours ago, iansheff said:

Just been reading that there has been an  INCREASE of parking charges at almost half of NHS trusts.

 

 

Its good news that less than half of hospitals are increasing parking charges. With inflation at 2.7% you could expect most hospital to increase parking charges.

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