Fast Loan UK<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe trusts are also among some of the most expensive for hospital parking in England \u2013 outside of London \u2013 according to the figures.<\/p>\n
Second to them in the South East region is University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, which operates Southampton General Hospital, and charges \u00a318.60 for a 24-hour stay.<\/p>\n
While across the country, and outside of the capital, there is just a small group of hospital trusts with more expensive parking according to the data.<\/p>\n
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Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital<\/p>\n
This includes University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust \u2013 \u00a326.50 for 24 hours; York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust \u2013 \u00a322.50 for 24 hours; The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at \u00a322 and a three-way tie between Devon Partnership NHS Trust, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, which all charge \u00a320.<\/p>\n
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust increased its parking charges on April 1 this year in response to rising inflation.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the trust said: \u201cWe recognise that parking costs are an important issue for patients, visitors and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cParking charges help cover the significant costs of maintaining, managing and securing our car parks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe offer a range of concessions for eligible patients and visitors, including those who need to attend hospital frequently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will continue to review our charges against local public sector organisations, including hospitals in our region, and we continue to look at ways to improve access and parking provision across our hospital sites.\u201d<\/p>\n
Concessions can be available for those with a blue badge. Photo: istock<\/p>\n
Some groups are entitled to park in hospital car parks for free, including blue badge holders, patients who may frequently attend outpatient appointments and parents of sick children staying overnight between certain times.<\/p>\n
However the issue of hospital parking charges remains controversial \u2013 with expensive fees, complicated payment arrangements and a lack of spaces among some of the issues raised by patients with organisation HealthWatch earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust says it makes no profit from patients and visitors using its parking services.<\/p>\n
Royal Berkshire Hospital says it doesn’t make a profit from car parking fees<\/p>\n
In a statement the trust explained: \u201cWe do not make a profit from parking, any income generated is used to provide and manage our parking facilities for patients, visitors and staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis includes maintenance, security, and subsidising alternative travel options including park and ride services.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe review our parking tariffs each year and benchmark against local parking providers.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we are located in the town centre, we have to do this to make sure our limited parking capacity is available for patients, visitors, and staff, rather than used by commuters or shoppers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two hospital trusts in Berkshire and Hampshire have been named as those with the most expensive parking for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,12991,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-738247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-newbury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}