A daughter is campaigning for lower parking charges at Stoke-on-Trent's main hospital - after shelling out £16.80 visiting her stroke-hit dad. Courtney Chell visited dad Edward four times during his four-day stay at the Royal Stoke University Hospital - paying £4.
20 to park for between two and three hours each time. Now hundreds of people have signed the 25-year-old's petition calling for the parking charges to be lowered. The online petition can be signed here .
Courtney, from Norton, said: “£4.20 for up to three hours is way overpriced. I was annoyed by how much it is.
If people are in a bad financial situation, it deters them from visiting family. READ: Cancer-hit Kim, 75, slams Royal Stoke after £25 parking fine - Kim Culley parked on double-yellow lines in a desperate dash to his appointment - after failing to find a parking space READ: Hero Royal Stoke nurse lands £205 legal bill after getting parking fine at work - Sandra Barrass forgot to display her £25-a-month parking permit ahead of a 12-hour shift at the Royal Stoke University Hospital “You get to the car park, you’re already worried, and then you’re worried about how much you’ve got in your bank just to go and see your loved-one in hospital. You can go up Hanley for cheaper.
Paying to park at a hospital shouldn’t be like going shopping for the day. It’s not a luxury thing - it’s an essential.” Edward, aged 74, is now out of hospital and recovering at home.
Wife Tracy had visited twice a da.