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Thanks to you, we’ve had some success across the UK but we still need your help to scrap these charges for good in England.
The coalition government has decided that they will not fulfil the pledge made by the previous government to phase out car parking charges for in-patients, and want individual hospital trusts to devise their own car parking policies.
They have also provided no further help for out-patients in their response to the car parking consultation.
In March 2011, six months after this decision was announced, we wrote to Andrew Lansley and all hospitals in England asking them to offer free parking to cancer patients.
Read our letter and people’s comments on the government’s decision| (PDF, 130kb)
We are using the responses to our letter to research car parking costs at hospitals across England and will keep you up to date with our findings.
We want all hospitals in England to offer free or reduced car parking for cancer patients. We want to see better guidance at a national level to support hospitals and create a stress-free parking experience for patients.
See our successes so far| (PDF, 203kb)
We have already had over 10,000 people sign our petition, but in order to give car parking charges the boot we need your support! You can support our campaign by signing our pledge|.
Hospital parking has been free in Wales since April 2008, except where trusts have external contracts in place. These trusts will introduce free parking by 2011.
Parking is free for chemotherapy and radiotherapy patients.
Parking is free except for at three private hospitals in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Find out how you can campaign against these remaining hospitals charging at Unison Scotland|.
People know about the physical impact of cancer but it is also expensive. A little concession on this would make a huge difference to people going through cancer treatment. The Government has passed the decision on to local hospitals – so we need to keep up the pressure on them to help those who go to hospital regularly. Lynda Bellingham, actress and broadcaster.
People know about the physical impact of cancer but it is also expensive. A little concession on this would make a huge difference to people going through cancer treatment. The Government has passed the decision on to local hospitals – so we need to keep up the pressure on them to help those who go to hospital regularly.
Lynda Bellingham, actress and broadcaster.
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