Hospital Car parking; good idea. Options

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Today I went to Newbury Hospital for blood tests. I parked in their car park and Paid £1 for 4 hours. My daughter told me that when she last used the car park she gave her ticket to somebody else (as she had a few hours left over). So when I had finished I gave my ticket to somebody else. I also noticed that a lot of people coming out of the hospital asking others if they wanted their ticket.

Some people can afford it (car parking at the hospital) others can't so I had to write and mention the generosity of other drivers giving up their ticket to new arrivals.

I thought that was worth a mention.

[Bloggo]

Parking charges in hospitals is a form of direct taxation in that if you use it then you pay as opposed to those that don't use it having to subsidize those that do if it was free.
However it is in the noise when you consider the amounts of tax payers money being paid into the health service that finance the healthcare tourists that are drawing on a finite resource and paying nothing towards it. This is what is wrong and needs to be addressed.