how much does it cost to park at your local hospital?

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it's £4 here

free north of the border too

ours starts at £2.50 for 1 hour, and I think £3.50 for 2 hours dread to think after that- I wouldn't dare stay any longer.
For my antenatal appointments I always park a 10 minute walk away tbh. It is such a rip-off.
I dread to think how much you would spend if you had a relative/friend as an in-patient.

Free here too - Scotland

Kingston - £1.80 first hour and then goes down for longer stays (i.e. total cost goes up but cost per hour goes down).

St George's, tooting - £1 per half hour I think but goes up the longer you stay but you can get a weekly £10 ticket if you speak nicely to sister on the ward.

The worst one I know (and this is my specialist subject as I have to travel to a lot of hospitals for work) is Norfolk and Norwich - comes to 11 quid for a day.

Bristol Oncology is 9 quid for a day - a fiver for a morning.

The Royal Marsden, Sutton was a magnificent 1.50 for as long as you needed last time I visited.

£3 , i get out free when attending meetings and doulaing though. also, you can buy a pass for £10 for a week, and get £5 refund when you return it

• Up to half an hour - £1.00
• Up to 2 hours - £2.00
• Up to 4 hours - £4.00
• Up to 24 hours - £6.00

blinking expensive imo

but £4 no matter what!
on the other hand, surely quite unlikely that you will be there for half an hour only.?

Have money taken out of my wages every month (staff). Got a parking ticket once because there were no places and I was going to be late for my shift so parked on a yellow line.

Our hospital made nearly £1 million pounds in car parking fees last year, and still do not salt the car parks/roads properly.

Probably goes towards the chief executives bonus.

i have been there for half an hour twice this month, one to collect a prescription and once for an appointment

Here we get the first 40 minutes free and then it is £2.70 but that is for any time over the first 40 minutes. SO if we are there all day it would cost £2.70. Also here we can pay £2.70 at the security desk and they will validate it for 24 hours. So you can come and go if you need to.
Helpful for DH when I was in maternity home.

0-3 hrs is £2.50
3-7 hrs is £5

"but £4 no matter what!
on the other hand, surely quite unlikely that you will be there for half an hour only.?"

DS and I were in hospital for 4 days when he was 9mo, he had bronchiolitis. DH came back and forth from home and had to pay £4 each time as the overground car parks were full all day and the multistorey you have to pay your £4 to exit.

that's a total rip off megbussett .. and as we know the money goes firstly to the security guards who patrol the car parks... rathe rthan the actual hospital

am in Scotland but my hospital is one of those who still have private contract so each visit is £1.70. Thankfully i am usually there for MSLC meetings of BF Peer support so claim expenses back.

Am pretty shocked at the charges some of you are telling us about! £1.70 a visit seems pretty tame now.....

mrsmaidamess, funny you should say that. My DH spent my whole first labour panicing about the car, I was pushing around the time the ticket expired and he wanted to leave to get a new one! Luckily the midwife had some harsh words for him!

Ours is 0 - 3 hours £1.70
3 - 8 hours £2.70
8 - 24 hours £6.00

Mine is £2.40 for two hours. At the moment they are doing a scheme where I can pay just £1 when I have chemotherapy sessions but when I see the oncologist (after every one or two chemo cycles) I have to pay full price. Eh? It's part of the chemo treatment. . Pisses me off greatly.