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HOSPITAL CAR PARKING FOR PATIENTS WITH BRAIN INJURY (No.3)

EDM (Early Day Motion) 976: tabled on 26 February 2018

Tabled in the 2017-19 session.

This motion has been signed by 10 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

Motion text

That this House notes that brain injury patients often require long hospital stays; further notes that such patients and their families are often subject to steep car parking charges at NHS hospitals in England; is disappointed to find that the wife of a brain tumour patient was recently not made aware of concession schemes for long-term patients; understands that she consequently paid over £10 a day for parking for the first 12 days of her husband's stay; is concerned by the inadequate information provided by hospitals about concessionary schemes where they do exist; recognises that parking charges are unfair to long-term patients; and urges the Government to find ways to abolish parking charges for long-stay patients at NHS hospitals in England.