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A good reason to get the bus!
In September last year, former health secretary Andy Burnham announced that hospital car parking charges for in-patients, their families and friends would be scrapped within three years in England. However the coalition Government has no current plans to carry this out.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said the issue was still being looked at.
She said: "We can't be in favour of decentralisation and greater autonomy for NHS and then tell them how to run their car parking.
"But it's clear that, where parking charges are making it difficult for staff to do their jobs properly, where they are damaging patients access to services, or where they are stopping friends and relatives from visiting they are too high, and hospital trusts have a responsibility to look at those factors."
More information on car parking at hospitals can be viewed via this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/10259304.st