The East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust raked in over £1million profit on its car parks in the last year, it has been revealed.

The trust - which runs Ashford's William Harvey Hospital (pictured), the Kent and Canterbury Hospital at Canterbury, the QEQM at Margate, Dover's Buckland Hospital and the Royal Victoria Hospital at Folkestone - made £1,022,322 profit in 2008-09, according to figures obtained by Which? Magazine.

At £2,800.88p per day, it made the fourth highest profit of any trust in England, with only Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital Trust, Southampton University Hospitals Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust bringing in more.

The £1,022,322 figure represents a 175 per cent profit margin for the trust, Which? claims.

The amounts were obtained from the 23 biggest hospital trusts in England under the Freedom of Information Act.

We have approached the East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a comment but have so far received no response.