‘Extortionate’ parking fees at NHS hospitals in Yorkshire condemned

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It would be more cost effective Amgo, if they must continue with ths obscenity, for the NHS trusts to manage it in-house and also give additional employment to people. Somethings you do not outsource, plain and simple.
The lid really need blowing off this stealth tax and gross NHS inefficiency.
 
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Vince_UK said:
It would be more cost effective Amgo, if they must continue with ths obscenity, for the NHS trusts to manage it in-house and also give additional employment to people. Somethig you do not outsource, plain and simple.
The lid really need blowing off this stealth tax and gross NHS inefficiency.
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Which is hopefully what this MP intends to do Vince and I wish him luck but I suspect it’s too much of a money earner now for them to reverse it.
 
Amigo said:
Which is hopefully what this MP intends to do Vince and I wish him luck but I suspect it’s too much of a money earner now for them to reverse it.
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Yes Amigo and the loss of earning will some how have to be made up in other ways or additiional cost cutting. It is an absolute disgrace.
 
HOBIE said:
Bedside TV. They cost £1000 to put in. Who pays & who coins it in ?
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TV and WiFi is free, certainly in the Deathstar in Glasgow. Not in the Oban hospital, mind, but to be fair, they need the money.
 
And get sick, of course, otherwise you’ll miss all these treats:D
 
When my mum was in hospital not so long ago, my brother and myself reckoned it had cost us over £42 for parking just for the first week as we both visited different times daily. She was worth it of course but I resented paying the private parking company who are mercenary at our local hospital.
 
We don't actually mind paying - we're lucky cos we can afford it, of course. And in theory of course at our age - bus travel is also nominally free anyway. However if you happen to live in a village in wildest Warwickshire you are lucky if you are anywhere near a bus service for starters and even luckier if the service departure and arrival times happen to coincide with whatever time you happen to need to get there for your appointment. I can assure you - nobody parks there unless they need to, there are no local shops or anything else - and it's so expensive anyway you wouldn't do it by choice!

When Pete was having radiotherapy for his cancer treatment we discovered very quickly that the Arden Centre where such things are delivered will happily authorise your carpark ticket so you don't have to pay. Of course you don't get that for things like in-patient treatment, diagnosis, follow ups - or even A&E visits when stuff goes wrong after or during treatment. Bearing in mind you typically attend for weekly or daily treatments for quite long periods - it will cost you an arm and a leg. The nearest supermarket is well over a mile away and in any case once you get onto the hospital site a lot of the roads don't provide pavements to walk along at all, and from the further car parks, it could be a mile and more walk, to get to the main entrance. You could then have to walk half a mile (a 10 to 15 minute walk inside the hospital) to get to the clinic or ward or eg Xray - especially mammography - where your appointment happens to be.

Fare from here into Coventry is about £5 and I don't know from Cov to Walsgrave. It's about the same distance so another fiver I suppose. I don't know how you get on if you are on a very fixed income and don't have shedloads of cash spare. Some receiving treatment in the Arden centre who have to rely on patient transport, might be there from 9am and then have to wait till late afternoon till they can take them home again. It's no joke on top of having chemo or radiog, every day for months, is it?
 
Your point about the lack of pavements means lack of safety for pedestrians, and equally means no safe passage for crumblies like me in a wheelchair. No pavements means more space for cars to make some company richer.
 
My daughter in law is a nurse and often finishes a shift after all buses have stopped running so it is either car or taxi ,also two hospitals come under the same authority she is working in a hospital in another town (not by choice )
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chaoticcar said:
My daughter in law is a nurse and often finishes a shift after all buses have stopped running so it is either car or taxi ,also two hospitals come under the same authority she is working in a hospital in another town (not by choice )
CAROL
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Exactly.
Many of my old colleagues lived in rural areas where public transport was poor.
 
Lots of staff who work at my local hospital travel 30+ miles to work there or live in villages miles away with no public transport to get there. Some car share and a pub down the road offers a section of their car park free for hospital staff. Walking, running or cycling isn't really an option and, as some one who works nights, I wouldn't fancy walking, cycling etc +++ miles after a busy 12 hour night shift 😱
 
Lucy Honeychurch said:
Lots of staff who work at my local hospital travel 30+ miles to work there or live in villages miles away with no public transport to get there. Some car share and a pub down the road offers a section of their car park free for hospital staff. Walking, running or cycling isn't really an option and, as some one who works nights, I wouldn't fancy walking, cycling etc +++ miles after a busy 12 hour night shift 😱
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I often struggled after particularly hard shifts to walk to the car.
 
Public transport to our hospital is good, so I use it as much as possible, but you can't escape the fact that it's quicker to drive, so depending on appointment times and what else we are doing sometimes there is no choice but to use the car. E.g. clinic appointments are always during school hours, it's almost impossible to get one out of school hours, and I like to minimise the amount of school that my daughter misses. So sometimes we have to use the car. Luckily there isn't often a problem finding a space, and we don't have to go very often so the charge isn't an issue for us. It's a shame that the money doesn't go back to the hospital though, and must be a nightmare if you have to go to hospital more often than we do for treatments, or for your visitors if you are an in-patient. My daughter was in for a week when she had her appendix out and even buying a 1-week pass and swapping tickets with our visitors to minimise the charges it cost quite a lot between us all :( Some people can't afford that
 
I just wonder, in the 21st century, why many appointments that are nothing more than a discussion, can’t be conucted over Skype. Obviously, this is not suitable for everyone, but a good proportion of appointments could be offered this way.
 
Pete's last prostate consultation was a phone one, and a nurse one at that. Our hospital now do this when a chap's blood tests are stable - but Pete's MacMillan nurse was and still is, 2 years later - pretty useless TBH.

She rang him and told him the blood test result - still undetectable - excellent. Ooh good, it's been that ever since I finished the radiography hasn't it, hope it stays that way, says Pete. Nurse - in accusing voice apparently - WHAT radiography?

Same hospital, and your boss, the consultant you work with, referred him for it when his PSA kept going up after surgery - try reading peoples files before you ring them, you useless mare.

Pete doesn't get shirty with people like me but I haven't a clue how he doesn't!
 
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