UNISON wins U-turn over hospital parking charges

Thousands of NHS hospital staff in the West Midlands will receive refunds for car parking charges while at work, after a successful campaign by UNISON.
The U-turn by University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) NHS Foundation Trust follows a challenge by the union on behalf of its 6,000 members working at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and other sites run by the trust.
The union says that some could receive as much as £800, backdated to last summer when UHB scrapped a commitment to offer free parking d