Greedy parking enforcement companies are issuing hefty fines to carers and nurses

Greedy parking enforcement companies are issuing hefty fines to carers and nurses Private companies are issuing hefty penalty charge notices – sometimes even in a hospital’s own car park

Community nurse Gemma Hayes was on call and on a tight schedule. She left her car in the residents’ car park of a block where her last patient of the day lived and displayed her professional carer’s badge on the dashboard. When she returned she’d been charged £60.

“I was allocated 30 minutes for the call but spent an extra 45 minutes unpaid overtime as the elderly, housebound patient had additional needs,” says Hayes, who earns £24,200 and regularly works an extra unpaid hour on top of her eight-hour shifts. “I appealed, offering confirmation that I was carrying out a patient visit. It was rejected.

Changes in the law are unlikely to have any effect on rising charges. The Guardian