Hard-up nurses, cleaners and midwifes forced to shell out up to £2.50 an hour just to park at work
NHS Trusts in England pocketed a whopping £90million from staff car parking charges last year, shock figures show.
The official NHS Digital stats released today show in 2019/20 trusts raked in £90 million from staff parking charges – up £4 million from the year before.
Rachel Harrison, GMB National Officer, said:
“Charging dedicated NHS staff to park at work is disgraceful at the best of times. In the middle of a pandemic it is sickening.
“Government cuts have inflicted a heavy toll on the NHS, but Trusts should not be clawing that cash back by charging the people we rely on to keep us alive.
“GMB persuaded the Government to scrap parking charges for all health and social care staff at the start of the pandemic. But now many are charging once again.
“Ministers must nowsupport our healthcare heroes by enforcing free parking”
