My husband spent 9 weeks in hospital when he had a triple bypass, it was nearly 30 miles each way, I was taken by one of my children and dropped off or they stayed with me every day, We spent a fortune on petrol and parking fees, on the last week he was there a nurse said I am not supposed to say this but if anyone is in hospital for a long while there is a concessionary parking ticket that you can get weekly, it would have saved us a fortune as it was £10 pound a week instead of £7 a day and this was 10 years ago so a it was a lot of money and worry,
it wasn't written down anywhere and had to be asked for which I thought ridiculous at the time and I spent 2 hours waiting to see someone and filling in forms when I needed to be with my very ill husband,
He was only in one week after this, I would advise anyone who has someone in hospital for a while to ask if they do a similar thing,
I thought I would just add that I was made to feel a nuisance for asking and the way they went on they had not done it many times before, I nearly gave up when they left me sitting while they went to look for the form and never came back for ages but I didn't know how long he would be in hospital and even a for week or two it would save a lot, after paying the money I was eventually given a ticket to put on the car which lasted a week, it could be renewed without filling in any more forms.