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Hospitals made £174m through parking charges
Data collected by the Press Association has found that hospitals in England made a record £174 million for 2016/17 in charging for parking, an increase of six per cent on the previous financial year.
The figures, revealed under a freedom of information request, also showed that a growing amount of revenue was being made from fines - increasing by a third to £950,000 - being branded as a ‘tax on sickness’.
The figures, obtained from 111 hospital trusts, indicate that the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust took the most money through parking charges, reaching over £4.8 million, whilst two-thirds of hospitals made more than £1 million in each of the last three years.
The Press Association also revealed that half of all trusts charged disabled people for parking in some or all of their disabled parking spaces.
The Patients Association conceded that the current state of NHS finances meant it was difficult to blame hospitals for trying to find money, but warned that current conditions did not make the current situation acceptable.
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