I'm currently paying £8.80 per day for 8 hours parking at the Lister. If I just left my car there for a week the bill would be £22.00; I haven't bought a weekly ticket because Viv is going to be transferred to (probably) Addenbrookes, so we have never expected her to be at the Lister a week (although, at the rate we're going, she may well be.)
Consequently I'm going to end up paying far more than I should for parking.
I thought of how Oyster cards work in London; there is a daily cap, and once you have been charged that amount for journeys within the given zones any more journeys in those zones on that day are effectively free.
Why don't hospitals use a smart card for parking (or even contactless cards, as per the tube) and limit the amount one card can be charged in one week?
If it was done properly, all hospitals would work on the same system.. but that would involve the NHS being just one organisation, rather than lots of organisations all funded by the Dept of Health, and it might involve some efficiencies. That would never do!
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