Cadle said the parks are meant to encourage a fast turnover for people accessing Waipapa and complement the DHB's park and ride shuttle service operating from the Deans Ave site.
Board member and city councillor Aaron Keown said it seems like price-gouging.
"That parking space is a complete fail. It should have been a multi-story parking building right on site that is extremely accessible to the hospital. That should've been what happened."
Keown said it almost seems as if the DHB's trying to put off people driving to the hospital.
"Making parking this expensive for the close parking just means that some people cannot afford it and often those are the people who are using the hospital a lot."
Parking at Christchurch Hospital has been a contentious issue for years.
Staff at the hospital have been saying their safety was under threat because they have to park some distance away and walk through the city centre or Hagley Park late at night or early in the morning.
Several staff have been assaulted on their way to work, including a nurse who was attacked by a masked man in 2017 and a student nurse who was robbed and assaulted at knifepoint in Hagley Park late at night in 2018.
Waiting lists for parking spaces available far exceed demand.
An end could be in sight with the Government contributing $14.25m towards the expansion of the existing carpark for an additional 1000 parks.
