Hospital parking charges
Discussion
Just one more sign of how low this country has sunk... Hospital parking charges...
£7.50 a day... at worester now.. a mates missus has been in a week and with parking and fuel hes' spent over 100 quid this week alone...
so your in distress over a friend/relative in hospital and the
ers fleese you for as much as they can get away with...
use public transport you say. well that might work if your in walking distance but if you live 15 miles away ( there was a hospital next door but they closed it!!!) it either takes all day or is non existant..
disgrace fulll, it wouldnt been so bad if they actually had enough spaces (which they could have had on land they were offered at low cost) but the parking is so bad most appointments are missed due people not being able to park... so much so that if you turn up on time they're not ready !!!!! how much is that costing in wasted time...
and dont get me started on PFI......
£7.50 a day... at worester now.. a mates missus has been in a week and with parking and fuel hes' spent over 100 quid this week alone...
so your in distress over a friend/relative in hospital and the
ers fleese you for as much as they can get away with... use public transport you say. well that might work if your in walking distance but if you live 15 miles away ( there was a hospital next door but they closed it!!!) it either takes all day or is non existant..
disgrace fulll, it wouldnt been so bad if they actually had enough spaces (which they could have had on land they were offered at low cost) but the parking is so bad most appointments are missed due people not being able to park... so much so that if you turn up on time they're not ready !!!!! how much is that costing in wasted time...
and dont get me started on PFI......
fish said:
You could do what I did in the Elise in a rush to get to Mrs Fish when her father was in hospital. There were no spaces so I parked in the consultants car park by driving under the barrier
Disgusting behaviour James! Us poor hospital doctors shouldn't be made to slum it with the local riff raff.
BTW I have to pay about £60 a month for the privilege of parking at work, and obviously the hospital doesn't accept any liability for damage, blah blah.
P.S. Drop me an email James re. clay pigeon shoot?
fish said:
You could do what I did in the Elise in a rush to get to Mrs Fish when her father was in hospital. There were no spaces so I parked in the consultants carpark by driving under the barrier
I'd love to see that! BTW, way this sparked by the BBC news report this morning by any chace? There was a big news thing on it. They said most hospitals allow regular people to get a discount or even free parking if they are having on going treatment. The case on the BBC, the couple had spent something like £570 on parking while the guy went through chemo!
miniman said:
Be thankful you don't have to visit anyone in Swindon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wi
feck me you pay 1.2 million and get 2 attendants
"Mr Payne said the trust had an annual contract with the council to run the car park which came with two attendants.
He said it was "only right and proper" that the trust paid for that service. "
I need a career change, i'll gladly hand out parking tickets for 600k a year
anonymous said:
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Frimley Park has this scheme, which did indeed save a packet when the missus was in hospital for a week or two a few years ago and I was visiting every day (ah bless). I realise that, just like supermarkets, the hospitals have to prevent people from using their carpark as a free public carpark but I don't see the supermarkets fleecing people for parking (although to be fair they probably just offload the cost into the product).
It does seem slightly immoral though. I mean nobody goes to hospital because they want to, so to charge a reluctant captive audience does seem a bit wrong.
>> Edited by JonRB on Thursday 2nd March 19:32
Yep, recently had to visit my father every day down in Southampton before he died.Average charge between £5 and £7.50 for a few hours, when you could actually get parked. Weirdest hospital with small shopping precinct below hospital and patients just wandering around or on trolleys intermingeling with shoppers. Whats that all about ??
Our local hospital, did charge 50p and hour for parking, but they recently built a new car park, and re-surfaced the main one, so I think they have raised their hourly rate. Thankfully when I go I usually go with my daughter and she has a disabled badge, and up to press they can park free. Although until they built the new car park they had 8 disabled parking spaces for the whole of the hospital.
But I do know alot of the staff and visitors are parking in the neighbouring streets, and clogging up side roads to the extent that the residents have complained.
But I do know alot of the staff and visitors are parking in the neighbouring streets, and clogging up side roads to the extent that the residents have complained.
When my father had a heart attack last year, I was visiting him every day for about three weeks. I wasn't prepared to pay Weston General Hospital's parking fees, so I parked on the verge outside the hospital grounds, as did lots of people I notice there's now a load of boulders there now to prevent this. Bastards 
Good idea on using low cars to get under the barrier. I'd have no scruples doing this with my Tiger should I ever need to go to a hospital again
>> Edited by Moose. on Thursday 2nd March 19:49
I notice there's now a load of boulders there now to prevent this. Bastards Good idea on using low cars to get under the barrier. I'd have no scruples doing this with my Tiger should I ever need to go to a hospital again
>> Edited by Moose. on Thursday 2nd March 19:49
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