Campaigners have issued a fresh call for car parking charges at hospitals to be scrapped. They say it places an 'unfair' pressure on people already suffering with illness. Birmingham Women's NHS Trust charges patients and visitors £2.70 an hour.
Patients with chronic conditions could be paying more for parking after Coventry University Hospital lifted the £150 a year cap on charges.
Rob Oxley from the Tax Payers Alliance says it is a 'tax on the sick.'
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East Midlands Weather: Heavy rain over Derbyshire hills, drier and brighter elsewhere
The city’s spike in coronavirus cases has sparked a report that it may be the first UK location to be subjected to a district lockdown.