{"id":994,"date":"2022-06-09T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/freenhsparking-case-in-the-daily-mirror\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T14:23:06","slug":"freenhsparking-case-in-the-daily-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/freenhsparking-case-in-the-daily-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"DAUK&#8217;s #FreeNHSParking campaign in the Daily Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/doctor-fined-200-overstaying-8-27188790\">Daily Mirror<\/a><\/em> covers the case of junior doctor Dr Malinga Ratwatte who was issued with parking charges after being 8 minutes late returning to his car after a night shift. The GP trainee caused a twitter storm by sharing his parking ticket &#8211; and the charges have since been refunded<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/malinga_r\/status\/1533881578790834176?s=20&#038;t=VmM5CSP3_nRaen_CGj1lng\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Ellen Welch, co-chair of DAUK, told the Mirror: \u201cCharging staff to go to work, and furthermore, fining them when they stay late to deal with sick patients shows our key workers how much the government values them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As the NHS continues to haemorrhage staff, the government should be looking for easy wins like free parking to boost morale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;That is why DAUK is campaigning for free NHS parking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FreeNHSParking?src=hashtag_click\">#FreeNHSParking<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dauk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NHS-PARKING-POSTER-v4-1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6404\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Mirror covers the case of junior doctor Dr Malinga Ratwatte who was issued with parking charges after being 8 minutes late returning to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,602],"tags":[604],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dauk-news","category-the-nhsnhs-parking","tag-free-nhs-parking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dauk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}