Your Say Disabled charge is latest money grab!
The announcement by the administrators of Calderdale NHS Trust (Courier, April 24) that “The disabled must pay to park at the Royal” is only the latest of such moneygrabbing edicts to come from that source. It has long been their practice to charge users of hospital car parks according to the length of visits, be they to bring the sick in for assessment and treatment, relatives and friends to see in-patients or individuals keeping appointments. These charges inevitably deter some less well-off relatives and friends from making the visits to patients which are known to hasten their recovery and discharge home, thus avoiding ‘bed blocking’ and reducing treatment costs. Such considerations should surely outweigh any perceived need for arbitrary hospital parking charges. visited Halifax and Calder Valley. The health professionals who comprise the local Clinical Commissioning Group have not proposed its closure. Conservatives trust their judgement and their integrity. Why does Labour, on the other hand, question our local doctors’ integrity by constantly alleging that they want to close the Calderdale A and E when they have suggested no such thing? Of course, how much of our NHS would survive the economic recklessness of a Labour government in hock to the SNP is another matter. years ago has provoked the rise of “Isil”; and deterrent theory is unconvincing since the fallout from any use of the diabolical weapon, hundreds of times more destructive than the Hiroshima A- bomb, would entail continental suicide. As Bishop Walker of Ely said thirty years ago, humanity’s final blasphemy would be to blow the world up. Geoffrey Fielden is wrong to say that Callaghan was brought down by leftwing rebellion. He lost via by-election defeats and disaffection of small parties. The WMD issue is not a matter of right and left! A group of generals led by the recently-retired Chief of Staff Lord Danant has joined with CND in saying that the Trident issue is too serious for the heat of an election. As for links with SNP, Labour will welcome support from all other Parties when in government, be it majority or minority. But tactical Labour voting is vital here for the sake of the common people of all Britain.