Royal Children's Hospital most expensive car park at $43 a day The new Royal Children's Hospital now boasts the state's most expensive hospital car park fee. HOSPITALS gouged more than $60 million from ill Victorians and their families in parking fees last year with rises of up to 72 per cent in some charges. The state's 10 biggest hospitals raked in an extra $6 million in parking fees in 2012-13, an 11 per cent jump on the previous year and a 41 per cent spike in just three years. News of the latest fee rises come just weeks after a survey by the Chronic Illness Alliance found some our most needy patients and carers had missed meals, medicines and medical appointments due to high parking costs at main hospitals. Alliance executive officer Christine Walker said the extra $6 million was a drop in the ocean for the budgets of the hospitals, but not for the pockets of the families that were stung. "It's just creeping privatisation, or co-payment by stealth." she said. And it's short sighted. What you're going to get is people who can't afford health care. Dr Walker was also critical of the dearth of public information on concession rates and how to apply for them. The Victorian Healthcare Association, which represents public hospitals, declined to comment. CEO Trevor Carr told the Herald Sun last year that successive budget cuts had forced hospitals to find other ways to meet costs. Mr Carr said then that parking was now a significant source of discretionary hospital revenue but said most offered discounts to regular attendees, pensioners and healthcard holders. The new Royal Children's Hospital now boasts the state's most expensive hospital car park fee after hoisting its daily rate from $25 to $43. The 72 per cent rise, and a 29 per cent jump in the hourly rate from $7 to $9, helped lift the RCH's annual car park revenue by $1.2 million to $6.4 million. The payout from hospital parking. Monash Hospital collected less than $1 million in parking revenue nine years ago, but in 2012-13 pocketed parking profits of $12.8 million, with rises of 29 per cent and 39 per cent to its hourly and daily rates in 2012-13 Other major fee rises included a 25 per cent increase in the daily parking rate at Box Hill Hospital to $25 and a 22 per cent rise in the daily rate at St Vincent's Hospital to $28. The Royal Melbourne and Royal Women's hospitals' $10 hourly fee and $30 daily fee - the highest rate apart from the RCH - have not been raised for four years.