This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Free Parking for all NHS Staff and Volunteers at Hospitals in England
At hospitals in England, NHS staff have to pay for their parking. To be charged to spend your day dedicated to helping others is unjust; especially during the COVID-19 outbreak.
In the few cases that staff can get permits, these car parks rarely have enough space to fill all employees.
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To be an essential part of saving lives, you should not have to worry about receiving fines while at work; especially when the NHS is under such stress that we want as many people as possible.
Hospitals such as West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth take advantage of our high working, caring and inevitably stressed NHS staff.
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Since you started this petition, the Government have announced that they will provide free car parking for all NHS and social care staff. You can read more about this here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-to-provide-free-car-parking-for-nhs-and-social-care-staff
You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:
www.gov.uk/coronavirus
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/
The Government has also created an online service to help you out what you can do if you’re struggling because of coronavirus: https://www.gov.uk/find-coronavirus-support
You can read NHS tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus here: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/every-mind-matters/coronavirus-covid-19-anxiety-tips
You can read impartial analysis of the Government response to coronavirus and policy developments here:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/coronavirus/
You may also be interested to know that because of the large number of petitions that have been started in relation to coronavirus, the Petitions Committee has been questioning the Government about its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Find out more and watch the Committee put questions suggested by petitioners to Government Ministers and the Deputy Chief Medical Officer: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/news/145767/committee-question-deputy-chief-medical-officer-and-ministers-on-coronavirus-response/
Read letters asking further questions of Government Ministers: https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/326/petitions-committee/publications/3/correspondence/
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