The five NHS boards that levy charges provide car parking as an in-house service, through a private sector provider or a combination of these methods of provision and accordingly each have different charging structures.The current guidance on car park charging is clear that NHS boards must not introduce charging as a means of generating income but charging may be justified if the income generated is used by the board to cover any significant costs in providing parking facilities (e.g. capital charges, maintenance costs, administration costs, security costs, security lighting, CCTV); to cover the cost of providing new or improved parking facilities or making existing facilities more secure, or to better manage car parking facilities by discouraging unauthorised users (e.g. fly-parkers) but in so doing, measures taken to discourage unauthorised users must not be detrimental to the car parking arrangements for staff, patients, carers and visitors.We intend to review the guidance issued recently to NHS Scotland...