Theresa "MAY" not build a better Britain.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38447606

 

NHS hospitals break parking fees record

 

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.

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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 period, with over £635,000 collected this year alone.

The figure which each trust accrued varied, partly as a consequence of their size. But more than half were making over £1m in car park fees in a year.

The investigation also found that almost half of all NHS trusts charged disabled people for parking in some or all of their disabled spaces.

Hospital car parking fees were abolished in Scotland and Wales in 2008, although a small number of hospitals still charge as they are signed up to private contracts to manage their parking facilities.

However, fees are allowed to be charged in Northern Ireland.

'Funding crisis'

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said the investigation showed the "shocking reality" faced by patients, saying hospitals were "taking money from the sick and vulnerable to top up NHS coffers".

She added: "This is not what car parking charges should be used for. The NHS is clearly underfunded, but the onus on meeting the funding crisis should most certainly not be shouldered by the sick, injured and vulnerable."

Ms Murphy said it was important that drivers parked sensibly, but said fines were a burden on the sick.

"We take a very clear line that car parking fees need to be scrapped or strictly capped," she said.

NHS spirit?

And deputy mayor of Leicester Rory Palmer told the BBC charges created two levels of "profound unfairness".

"First, people find themselves paying different amounts, at different hospitals, in different parts of the country," he said. "That incoherency is unfair and, in effect, creates a postcode lottery.

"But the real question is whether its actually fair to charge people who might be very ill, having to make lots of visits to hospital for treatment of to charge people visiting their sick relatives?

"I'm not sure that's in the true spirit of the National Health Service, which is about providing a service free at point of access."

The Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust made the most out of parking, with £4,841,108 collected across the year.

The majority - £3,465,357 - came from patients and visitors, whilst staff paid £1,375,751. Almost £40,000 was also collected by the trust in car park fines.

The London North West Healthcare NHS Trust made £968,170 in car park charges. A further £1,262,194 went to the private firm Apcoa under a private finance initiative (PFI) contract to manage the multi-storey car park at Northwick Park hospital.

The trust made £28,449 from car parking fines and the private firm kept a further £25,990 in fines in 2015/16. Over four years, Apcoa has kept £167,357 in fines under the terms of the PFI contract.

But some of the larger organisations did not respond to the FOI request, including Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Surrey.

In 2014/15, the trusts made £3,728,000 and £1,421,172 respectively, meaning the total figure for all trusts across England could be much higher.

Andrew Haldenby of the think tank Reform said no-one went into the NHS to set up a car park but charges stopped commuters and shoppers filling the spaces.

The parking charges income, he said, amounted to "a lot of money", adding: "If NHS hospitals had to suddenly lose that money, that genuinely would be a backward step for the NHS."

'Added stress of unfair charges'

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said it expected hospitals to follow its guidelines and put concessions in place for those who need the most help - including disabled people, carers and staff who work shifts.

"Patients and families shouldn't have to deal with the added stress of unfair parking charges," she added.

But Labour's shadow community health minister Julie Cooper said the government needed to take action.

"Raising car parking charges has a knock-on effect on patients, carers and family members who have no choice but to pay," she said.

"The current situation is wholly unfair and will only cause more stress for patients, families and carers.

"The government urgently needs to address this situation and take steps to cap the amount hospitals can charge for car parking fees."

[dennis tooth]

This beggars belief...

 

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/21/at-least-1000-government-laptops-and-flash-drives-reported-missing-since-2015?client=safari

 

 

They haven't been lost or stolen it's just a method of corruption so they don't have to release the data.

[thegreatelephant]

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/netherley-dad-dies-10-months-12379703

 

 

these Job Centre buildings need burning down when noone is in them in the night. all over the country.

 

fuck any sort of dialogue. this government and DWP have absolved the right to any sort of discussion through murder such as this. just fucking burn them out one by one if they want to set themselves up as judge, jury and executioner

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Bunch of cunts. 

[dennis tooth]

She's repeating 'brexit means brexit' to every question like the two weeks woman in total recall. She's got the three tits doing the negotiations for her.

[Bobby Hundreds]

SHARED society mother fuckers. Theresa Mayhem said so. She is sick of all the help she gives to the poorest and wants to help even more people. She's a regular do gooder is Mistress Mayhem like jimmy Saville.

[Jairzinho]

SHARED society mother fuckers. Theresa Mayhem said so. She is sick of all the help she gives to the poorest and wants to help even more people. She's a regular do gooder is Mistress Mayhem like jimmy Saville.

 

The press, being the great journalistic scrutinisers of power that they are, will rip her to shreds here for talking absolute fucking shite. They'll highlight years of Tory policy proving that they don't give a flying fuck about helping anyone in the bottom 95% of society.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Of course they will. On the marr show the likes of julie hartley brewer and her fellow couch trolls think it's brilliant and May is the new and improved jesus.

[magicrat]

SHARED society mother fuckers. Theresa Mayhem said so. She is sick of all the help she gives to the poorest and wants to help even more people. She's a regular do gooder is Mistress Mayhem like jimmy Saville.

 

 

All a pathetic attempt to avert peoples gaze from her blank piece of paper headed "Brexit" . The penny will drop soon that the single market is important to the future well-being of the country and she is driving us over the cliff, Her honeymoon would have ended months ago of we had a Labour leader willing to hold her to account,

[Jairzinho]

No it wouldn't have.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

TUC announced that the average UK household debt (excluding mortgages) is 13.000 quid. Fucking hell, they have you by the balls. 

[Lee909]

Not for me its not.

Learntvmy lesson once.

Household debt £0 happily

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Not for me its not.

Learntvmy lesson once.

Household debt £0 happily

 

Yeah, but the average means a lot of people will tow the line due to being in debt and a lot of families in the shit big style if jobs are cut. 

[Gym Beglin]

Theresa May looks like the sort of person you'd walk wide of in a park.  She looks like a weird cunt who has 73 cats and she stinks of shit and cuts her hair with a knife.  Utterly fucking mental, and the worst PM this country has ever seen.

 

[skend04]

Theresa May looks like the sort of person you'd walk wide of in a park. She looks like a weird cunt who has 73 cats and she stinks of shit and cuts her hair with a knife. Utterly fucking mental, and the worst PM this country has ever seen.

 

An amazing achievement given who she succeeded.

[Gym Beglin]

Pisses on newspapers in a corner of the front room.

 

[Gym Beglin]

[Gym Beglin]

Only eats Rolos, apart from Friday, when she eats fish on religious grounds. 

 

[Lee909]

Yeah, but the average means a lot of people will tow the line due to being in debt and a lot of families in the shit big style if jobs are cut.

Yeah its a sad fucking state

No doubt they push people that way. Same reason the government allowed the right to buy on social housing. Try going on strike when you have a mortgage

[Bobby Hundreds]

Cameron is still worse.

[cloggypop]

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

It was the mash, it was the Monster mash....

[Stickman]

[magicrat]

 

 

 

Has she been arrested for nicking stuff from Primark ?

[Mook]