Image copyright PA Image caption Hospitals in England collected more than £120m in car parking fees in the last year NHS hospitals appear to be making more money than ever from parking fees.
A report from the Press Association says hospitals in England collected more than £120m last year – up by 5%.
Many trusts defended the charges, saying the money was put back into patient care or maintaining car parks.
But the chief executive of the Patients Association said it was unfair that hospital parking in Wales and Scotland was largely free, while patients in England had to pay.
Hospitals told to cut parking charges Minister urges NHS parking discounts Of the 120 trusts asked by PA, 89 responded to the Freedom of Information request on the charges.
The responses showed £120,662,650 had been collected in car park fees over 2015/16, up from £114,873,867 the year before.
Only 27 trusts responded to a question about parking fines, but they showed over £2m had been collected in a four year p..
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