REGARDING your recent story concerning an increase in hospital car parking charges; when I spent a while in hospital in 2012 I looked forward to seeing visitors every evening and was grateful that a friend visited on the nights my relatives were unable to attend.

In order to visit she caught the bus.

Instead of increasing hospital car parking fees, possibly people should be encouraged to experiment with interactive computer-video packages such as Skype when considering making long journeys to visit friends and relatives.

People across the world converse with friends and relatives using computer-video packages such as Skype.

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