Would-be MP is campaigning to make hospital parking free
A prospective MP has launched a campaign to abolish hospital car parking charges.
Lucy Allan, who wil be the Conservative candidate for Telford in next year's election, has started a petition calling on health bosses to abandon charges at the Princess Royal Hospital.
It follows similar calls made last year by Shrewsbury and Atcham MP Daniel Kawczynski, who met with chancellor George Osborne to suggest a new national policy of removing car parking charges for hospital patients, visitors and staff.
Miss Allan said: "These charges hit the elderly, the disabled, the sick and their families the hardest. This has to be wrong."
The politician, who is a chartered accountant and a former non executive director of an NHS trust said: " I understand the financial difficulties the trust faces, but I urge the board to consider alternatives.
