Hospital Parking Charges

[TWR]

Should Nurses have to pay?
Should they be controlled by the Hospital only & the charges going straight back in to the hospital expenses?

[murraymints]

it costs a fortune to park at the Edinburgh Infirmary and the staff have to pay same rate too. It is run by a private parking company. It is a disgrace that folk have to pay to go to a hospital for treatment or to visit at such an emotive time...

[Dee Sa]

I thought the govt were going to do something about this ?

[Tilly2]

None of the staff should have to pay, in my opinion. I have a relative who is a radiologist and she pays a fortune in parking fees.

[tonyav]

I don't think anyone should have to pay, TWR.

[TWR]

On the same line Tony, I picked my Daughter up from Man A/Port yesterday, T1, I can honestly say I was in and out within 20mins £2.90, daylight robbery.

[Sqad]

Medical staff and visitors should not pay parking fees and never did in the "good old days" 1960-----1980's but even then it was clear to all concerned that the NHS was running out of money, but despite this, salaries, schemes etc were funded on an annual basis.

Money was running out ..........how can it be reclaimed?
One way was parking fees.

In Menorca, parking in hospitals is free to all.

[mushroom25]

murraymints, I thought your government abolished charges 6 years ago??
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2013/04/carparks2013

[murraymints]

costs a fiver just to drive through Edinburgh airport and offload on to pavement..approx. 30 seconds ! taxis have to pay too !

[Tilly2]

I have been visiting my dad in the hospital for the last month. I have gone every day. It has cost me a lot of money, particularly when he was in A&E for six hours.

[sherrardk]

Here it's £3.50 for one hour, apparently the highest price in the country! You do get free overnight parking if you are staying with a sick child.

[tonyav]

Yep, the airports are also robbing gits, always have been though imo.

[murraymints]

mushroom..not at Edinburgh...!

[Zacs-Master]

I was told by a porter at Bradford Royal Infirmiry that if I got a ticket for not paying I should ignore it as it was un-enforceable. If the hospitals don't raise money this way, it will have to be paid for somehow, possibly via increased taxes, which is a bit unfair.

[SirOracle]

In Scotland there are no parking charges for hospital,with the exception of the few (3 ),which are PFI.

[mikey4444]

In Wales it is free to park at Hospitals, although it hasn't done anything to make it easy find a space !

[boxtops]

Why just nurses, TWR, what about all the doctors and all the support straff, too? - all other benefits in the NHS for employees come out of our pay, so why not do what happens elsewhere, give them free parking but give it as a taxable benefit on our payslips.... anything would be better than than £10 a day at our local acute hospital. At MIU it's £2 for up to 2 hours, which is much more reasonable (and tbh around the same as we pay in our local shopping car parks).

I certainly believe it should be controlled as a department in the hospital itself, and not farmed out to local/national parking companies.

[murraymints]

sir o..its now virtually impossible to get a space at the infirmary anyway with the buiding works !

[tonyav]

Why do Scotland and Wales have free parking but England does not ?.

[TWR]

That would have included everyone that works there Boxy.

[Jeza]

Mic was in hospital for 17 weeks the maximum charge was £6.70 per day providing you didn't leave. If you left on the afternoon the £6.70 started again. So two visits per day so £ 13.40 per day. 7 days a week for 17 weeks. After Mic came home I had a really good moan about it and was told I should have applied for a weekly concession. BUT no one tells you at the time.