MSE News: England's NHS hospitals earn record £120m in car park charges – but you...

Why oh why after all this time and all the complaints to MSE does the dreadful appeal template still have the words?

There are mitigating circumstances to explain why I parked where I did

Why can't MSE understand that this is dreadful advice because it means the person appealing has revealed the driver's identity, thus throwing away one of the biggest and best appeal points available to a motorist who has received an unfair private parking charge.

If the driver admits they parked, then the protection of the Protection of Freedom Act 2012 is lost.

This is supposed to be a money saving website, but anyone who uses those words from the "official" MSE template will be throwing money down the drain.

MSE_Faye wrote: »

Trusts are making £100,000s a year by fining patients, visitors and staff deemed to have broken car park rules...

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'England's NHS hospitals earn record £120m in car park charges – but you can beat unfair fines'

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As nigelbb said, you are reporting this wrongly, MSE.

There are 'parking charges' and there are 'parking charges' and the two are not the same thing (confused? People are all the time!).

The NHS Trust keep the small fees for parking (their definition of 'parking charges') generally a few pounds per person. That's bad enough but:

The 'fines' (also called 'parking charges' just to muddy the waters) are a separate scandal and those are typically ten or twenty times the sum the NHS Trust gets. So the FAR, FAR bigger scandal here is the enormous rip-off that involves the money kept by private firms like ParkingEye who sue victims at Hospitals like Macclesfield, despite the NHS and ParkingEye both knowing that the Government Parking principles actually disallow this sort of regime.

Our local hospital self manages the parking , all the income goes to them and the charges are relatively low , unlike the parking eye and UKPC "managed" sites where they get a flat annual fee from the parking company and all other revenue goes direct to the company , not the trust's

BAN all hospital trust's from using 3rd parties and make them self managed

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