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nhs car park fees in wales.

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  • custardy
    custardy Posts: 38,365 Forumite
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    mind you on the flip side.
    we had the old edinburgh infirmary imn the city centre.
    a handful of spaces for parking as it was an old victorian hospital.
    so going to A&E you had to drive around the streets looking for parking.
    now we have the new ERI with huge car parks & facilities.

    alright free parking would be great but in edinburgh anything car based costs
  • peter_the_piper
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  • UnlikelyButTrue
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    maninthestreet wrote: »
    No doubt any shortfall in revenue will be made up by taxes, paid for the most part, by English taxpayers.

    I am English and living in Wales so i suppose you're right, us 'English' will be paying for it with our taxes... (as well as the Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and so on). I suppose the 'English' taxes were paying for the Scottish parliament too? or was that British taxes?
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  • Optimist
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    UnlikelyButTrue wrote: »
    I am English and living in Wales so i suppose you're right, us 'English' will be paying for it with our taxes... (as well as the Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish and so on). I suppose the 'English' taxes were paying for the Scottish parliament too? or was that British taxes?
    All this political correctness confuses me- I thought we were the UNITED Kingdom?:p

    Not since New Labour decided it would be better if we were the Dis United Kingdom
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  • moonrakerz
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    You need free parking at the Welsh hospitals because the waiting lists are so long !
  • alison99_2
    alison99_2 Posts: 664 Forumite
    moonrakerz wrote: »
    You need free parking at the Welsh hospitals because the waiting lists are so long !


    That's the most sensible thing I've heard in a while. :rotfl:
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  • mountainofdebt
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    UnlikelyButTrue wrote: »
    I am English and living in Wales so i suppose you're right, us 'English' will be paying for it with our taxes...:p

    But since you are living in Wales don't you benefit from the free prescriptions and eventually the free car parking?
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  • jamescredmond
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    maninthestreet wrote: »
    No doubt any shortfall in revenue will be made up by taxes, paid for the most part, by English taxpayers.
    good call. and I get the feeling the english are getting shafted by scotland/wales re. taxation. but maybe they've got a point. free higher educ., free oap care in scotland. and now free nhs parking in wales.

    really don't want to get too 'socialist' about this but shouldn't we all get a piece of the action, even if we pay a tad more in the way of (gggrrrr) taxes?

    oh God. hope I haven't started something here...............
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  • UnlikelyButTrue
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    mountainofdebt wrote: »
    But since you are living in Wales don't you benefit from the free prescriptions and eventually the free car parking?

    not when i go back to my mum's in England to get my teeth done cos i can't get an NHS dentist here! :D
    (it's all swings and roundabouts isn't it!)
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  • ariba10
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    We live in Wales and our local hospital has contracted out the parking concession to a private contractor until 2032.

    So roll on the next 24 years.
    I used to be indecisive but now I am not sure.
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