My patient arrested, the usual thing, you'd to stay there, it's not a 9-5 job, you can't leave, the nursing and midwifery council wouldn't think fairly on you if you did up and go just to change your parking ticket or move your car.

"In the end I had to pay £80 on top."

Susanna Reid said: "Unbelievable. So you stay over y our shift and over your parking time in order to save a patient's life and you get a parking ticket which is outrageous.

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"You also got a ticket as a patient - your mum was rushed into A&E in the ambulance and you got a fine for that?"

The nurse replied: "In my haste I did stop and buy a parking ticket, pinged in my registration number, accidentally missed a digit, contested it with no luck and [my fine] then went up to £80."

Mrs Plummer said she no longer works for the NHS because of how much money she was losing on parking tickets.

This comes as NHS staff were left "broken" and face losing their homes after a court ordered them to pay thousands in parking fines racked up at a Cardiff hospital.

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A judge has ruled that the employees, including nurses, doctors and admin staff, must pay the charges dating back to April 2016 after losing a legal fight with Indigo, the private operator that manages the car park at the University Hospital of Wales.

One nurse reportedly owes £150,000 after the court ruled that £128 must be paid for each unpaid ticket, plus £26,000 in court fees.