What are your views on hospital car park charging?

Do you have to pay to park in your local hospital when you attend appointments or visit a friend or relative?

A patients’ group branded the fees a “tax on the sick” and called for NHS parking to be free, as in most of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Prices shown taken from a Macmillan Cancer Support Survey

 I was going back and forth to hospital taking my mother for tests and I would have to keep running out and topping up the meter. When you are going through such a huge ordeal, this is the last thing you want to think about but money ends up being your biggest worry, adding unnecessary stress.