Are You Interested Enough To Sign This?

[TWR]

Hospital Car Parking Rip Off,

mirror.co.uk hospital parking In one way or another you must have visited a hospital & paid these RIP OFF Prices, as I said on a previous post that got slandered, this time things have to be done, or are you not interested?

[murraymints]

I have paid a fortune to hospital car parks the last decade !! it is a scandal ..

[TWR]

Good morn Murray, I think it's about time the public made a stance on these rip off prices & done something about it, their choice is here, sign it or not, I certainly have. xx

[mikey4444]

My family have been visiting our brother who has been in the Heath Hospital in Cardiff, on and off over the last 5 years. Each time we went, its between £3 and £5 a time, so the cost has mounted up.

But the main problem has been not the cost, but the availability of a parking place. There have been many, many occasions. when I would willingly have spent twice as much, rather than spend another hour driving round in circles trying the find a free space.

If the Hospitals were to spend the money raised in providing more parking spaces, than I personally wouldn't have a problem. But they seem to see parking fees as a cash cow, in these days of continual cuts.

[pixie374]

I got a £60 fine at 4am on Christmas day two years ago- outside a maternity unit. I even had a ticket, but it had fallen off somewhere in the rush backwards and forwards. Miserable ***.

[pixie374]

Oops. Rhymed with huggers...

[murraymints]

Edinburgh infirmary is just so awful..car park is NCP I think, even the staff have to pay a huge amount just to get to work

[gulliver1]

Well according to Boris the Bus, and the brigade of brexiteers, we will have 350 million a week to pump into the Nhs , so will they be able to afford free parking with that money?. or is it just another Brexit lie?.

[Zacs-Master]

What are we supposed to be signing?

[Islay]

No why should parking be free?
Reduce on application of exceptional circumstances but not done away with totally

[NoMercy]

"As I said on a previous post that got slandered"

So when someone disagrees with you, it's slander?

[ummmm]

Our hospital simply hasn't got the land for more parking spaces unless they build up.

[murraymints]

£7 per day at Edinburgh

[DarceyK123]

If the money went back into the NHS I wouldn't mind so much.

Or if they were in line with other local car parks that would be better but their not.

It's clearly a money making exercise preying on people who have no choice.

[Boto]

When our local(ish) hospital charged you could at least find somewhere to park but when charges were stopped it is hopeless. You go round and round hoping someone is leaving. So I wouldn't sign.

[bhg481]

I think the problem is that if hospital parking is cheap just becomes a cheap car park for everybody, leaving no room for patients and visitors. Perhaps the solution is to issue a free permit to each patient and staff.

[EDDIE51]

If Hospitals stop charging for parking, it just means there will be less money for something else. Like medical facilities. It is misleading to call the cash raised from parking charges a profit. No NHS hospital ever runs at a profit, it is just a way of making what money they get go further. Anyone who is disabled with a Blue Badge gets free parking anyway. Plus people who need long term treatment get discounts as do those who need to visit them.

[ummmm]

And loads of people working in or close to town centres have to pay to park so I don't see why doctors/nurses should be any different.

[Zacs-Master]

Eddie, many hospitals have sold off their car parks to private parking firms so the hospitals don’t benefit at all.

[murraymints]

the car park here does not belong to the hospital..it is an independent business on hospital grounds so NHS does not come into it

[murraymints]

and if you can't find a blue bay to park in even with a badge you have to pay