Jeremy Hunt to set out new strict rules
blocking huge fines in car parks
Cancer sufferers and patients whose treatment
overran were ripped off
Health
trusts now responsible for private firms that run 3/4 of the car parks
Hospitals must offer free or cut-price parking to the seriously ill, the Health Secretary will announce today.
Hospitals must offer free or cut-price parking to the seriously ill, the Health Secretary will announce today.
Setting out strict new rules, Jeremy
Hunt will say cowboy parking operators can no longer be allowed to impose huge
fines for trivial infringements.
His intervention is a major victory for
the Daily Mail’s campaign to protect vulnerable patients.
The outrageous behaviour of some
parking bullies has sparked a mass of complaints.
Cancer sufferers and patients whose
treatment has over-run are among those who have been ripped off.
‘Patients and families shouldn’t have
to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges,’ Mr Hunt will
say.
‘These clear ground rules set out our
expectations, and will help the public hold the NHS to account for unfair
charges or practices.’
The guidance to health trusts makes
clear they will be responsible for the actions of the private firms that run
more than three quarters of hospital car parks.
They will have to act against rogue
contractors and not sign contracts ‘on any basis that incentivises fines’.
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