THE government ordered cash-strapped NHS trusts today to temporarily stop charging health workers to park their cars on hospital property, following pressure by GMB and Unite unions.

As previously reported by the Morning Star, nurses, doctors and other vital health-service staff have been forced to pay between £50 and £200 a month for parking if they drive to work.

Now NHS trusts have been ordered to drop the charges for the duration of the coronavirus crisis – although patients will still have to pay, whatever their health problems.