Most hospitals in the UK make something under 1% of their budget from car parking charges. In one year Leeds General Infirmary issued over 10,000 parking tickets, generating over £140,000 Epsom and St Helier NHS Trust clamped over 1600 cars , and made nearly £2 million also in one year The system is unfair, making a stressful time worse, and it's not uniformly applied ( mostly free in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) About a year ago former Health Secretary Andy Burnham announced that hospital car parking charges would be scrapped in the next 3 years for England ...but the Coalition Government has "no current plans to carry this out"