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Make parking in hospitals free for everyone.

Submitted on Sunday 17th March 2019

Rejected on Tuesday 26th March 2019

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make parking in hospitals free for everyone.

Petition Details

Parking in England Wales and Scotland should be made free to everyone especially people who are receiving treatment on a daily weekly and monthly basis .

Some trusts offer free parking and some trusts do not.

Additional Information

Hospitals in England are making hundreds of millions of pounds from car parking charges, with more than 40% of NHS trusts increasing the cost of a stay in the past year.

An investigation using freedom of information requests found some trusts have doubled the price of car parking for patients and visitors.

Analysis of data published by NHS Digital in October shows trusts made more than £226m in 2017-18 from parking, including penalty fines.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

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