Hospital visitors hit with £13.3 million in parking fines during 2015/2016

Laura Thomson
Newcastle, UK - February 10, 2016: The NHS (National Health Service) logo on an entrance sign for the Royal Victoria Infirmary, a teaching hospital which includes an accident and emergency department.
Newcastle, UK - February 10, 2016: The NHS (National Health Service) logo on an entrance sign for the Royal Victoria Infirmary, a teaching hospital which includes an accident and emergency department.



Visitors to UK hospitals were hit with £13.3m in fines from 2015 to 2016, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.

Online parking reservation site YourParkingSpace.co.uk submitted the request to NHS trusts around the country, and 136 responses revealed that as many as 159,000 penalty charge notices (PCNs) had been handed out.

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