Mice! Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Piers Morgan probably isn't a favourite of most people, but on this Morning he was saying he is going to campaign for parking charges to be scrapped for NHS workers. Imagine coming out of A&E or surgery at the moment, 12 hours facing off against CV19 only to find you have a ticket on your windscreen, just what your day needs, a final kick in the ⚾️🥎🏀🏐 before you head for home to rinse and repeat. PM had a stack of letters on his desk, he's asked people to send them in saying he will pay them, but first he's going to write to the companies and ask them to cancel them, he said it would be far easier to just pay them but that wouldn't solve the problem. So if you know anyone working in the NHS being charged to park, or who's been fined while parked, get on this. I've no idea what NHS staff pay for parking but I'll bet it takes a chunk out of their wages. A celebrity doing some good? Rare indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Good old Piers, would be nice to see some of this stupidity stopped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millrace Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Pretty sure this has been changed or altered already,,my local hospital has no charges at the minute,,in there own carpark or is he referring to outside/private carparks streets etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadorna Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 My wife pays £3-40 a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted April 15, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 18 minutes ago, millrace said: Pretty sure this has been changed or altered already,,my local hospital has no charges at the minute,,in there own carpark or is he referring to outside/private carparks streets etc? They said charges were supposed to be waived during this crisis but people are still being fined, and will still be charged afterwards. 15 minutes ago, Tadorna said: My wife pays £3-40 a day. Adds up over the year, and I'm sure others are charged a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 County Hospital Stafford, No charges..........well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTaylor91 Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Doncaster hospital currently has no charges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmboy91 Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 At my local hospital the minimum charge was £2, but once you had the ticket on that was it. As long as the was a valid one for that day they wouldn't fine you. Ive been up there at least half a dozen times well over my 2 hours and never had a thing. With lack of parking spaces available it's disgusting that they charge anyway. I had to go up to Norwich to see a chest specialist and it was like something out of a doomsday film where everyone is trying to leave the city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnphilip Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 When I first attended the big cancer hospital in Edinburgh , in your letter there is a separate piece of paper , you had it to the security at the car park , they escort you to a parking space very close to the entrance so you dont , have to be looking for a place or to be walking to far . What a love touch it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 My wife is a Matron at the nhs and has £52 a month directly deducted from her pay so she can park at her place(s) of work ! They even charge a fixed £2 for disabled badge holders wanting to park close to the main entrances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scutt Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Just latching onto anything to stir the brown stuff. Folks have been on about parking charges at hospitals for years he never voiced opposition before .just trying to gain brownie points cos he has been seen to be very negative in everything the Gov is doing to the point of it being a personal fight cos Boris won't play ball with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 I pay over £400 for the year for a parking pass at the hospital, but the local authority pay it back to me. The problem is, there are a certain number of parking spaces, but the hospital sell something like twice as many parking passes to get into the car park. Personally I think that’s an absolute joke ... as how can you sell something then it’s not supplied? So I pay £400 a year and then often find myself with a full car park. Many times due to having essential meetings etc I have had to park on the side where there is loads of room, alongside a massive number of other cars, only to come back to a ticket. This has happened a lot of times now. I wasn’t the only one, there would be 20+ cars everyday with tickets. Many of the colleagues in both mine and other teams have had untold tickets and we have always ignored them... some of them have several thousand pounds of them built up. I have about £1,000 built up and we just ignore them. Waiting to see if they take me to court ... apparently it’ll cost them about £1,000 to take me so until they do I ain’t paying!! 1 minute ago, scutt said: Just latching onto anything to stir the brown stuff. Folks have been on about parking charges at hospitals for years he never voiced opposition before .just trying to gain brownie points cos he has been seen to be very negative in everything the Gov is doing to the point of it being a personal fight cos Boris won't play ball with him. Yes have to agree with this. Pierce has no real desire to help NHS staff, they’re just his latest tool to stick it to someone and jump on any populist movement that will further his own name!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVB Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Who sets the car parking charges? As far as I am aware it isn’t the government it is the respective NHS trusts. So blame the NHS for charging NHS workers. But of course nobody ever blames the NHS do they! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 3 minutes ago, AVB said: Who sets the car parking charges? As far as I am aware it isn’t the government it is the respective NHS trusts. So blame the NHS for charging NHS workers. But of course nobody ever blames the NHS do they! Yes it’s each individual trust. Nothing to do with the Government (as usual). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellow Bear Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 A small tale on hospital parking charges: Several years ago SWMBO worked at a medium sized suburban hospital that for most purposes had adequate cheap parking and was near better than average public transport including a station. move 1 - local council introduced parking charges comparative to hospital for first 2 hours then climbing steeply. It was suddenly found that staff coming in for 9 to 5 at 0830 started to have parking problems let alone patients for appointments post 0900. After much scratching of heads a survey was done of parking starting at 0700 prior to shift change which was then 0800 as the parking was "empty" overnight. It was found that the car park started to fill before 7 and filled between 7 and 8 more than was to be expected with staff on shift but seemed not to empty at shift change. It was found that over one third of spaces were being used by train passengers travelling to London arriving before 7am and not leaving 'til after 7pm as the all day rate was a quarter of the public car parks. I won't go further but suffice to sat this started a parking price war with the local council as the hospital had to make it's parking less attractive to shoppers and commuters than the public car parks and the council were just plain greedy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger-Mouse Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 He might be popular with his views on parking but his treatment of MP Helen Whately hasn't gone down so well. I tried to watch the interview but he was clearly just determined to have a go at her so I stopped watching. It seems a lot of other people agreed with me. To the tune of 643 complaints to OFcom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Heron Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 Absolutely disgraceful hospital staff should not have to pay In normal times never mind now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 yes so they should, they are in the front line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted April 15, 2020 Report Share Posted April 15, 2020 I cannot understand hospitals, police stations and fire stations not having enough parking for their staff. They build a new station and dont have parking then say you can park on street nearby, but use the 20 quid a day car park, 100 quid a week to park your car. Finish at 3 am so no public transport options. Not there I could get a bus or train in any case. Then wonder why lots of staff leave to work in tesco on more pay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 Hi GingerCat This has got to do with Local Policies on 'transport sustainability' - so if you e havwalking, cycling and public transport options nearby you should be using those first. The policies stem from Government (NPPF) - walk 2k/cycle 5k/bus stops nearby. Of course individual practicality does not come into it - if you have to change 2 buses and the bus journey is an hou+ long is that reasonable? They dont have an answer for the finishing work at 0300hrs! Adjacent residential aeas are then covered by permit-holders only CPZ's (controlled parking Zones) to prevent overflow to obstruct the highway (there is no right to park on the highway even though you pay Road Fund Licence). Down here, employers will need to pay per space available at the work place soon! Again trying to reduce parking opportunity at the destination. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 My daughter is a corona doc at Warwick Hospital and parking charges have been cancelled for the last few weeks. Her partner is a research doctor at Wolverhampton Uni hospital and parking charges are not being enforced there either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCat Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Loki said: Hi GingerCat This has got to do with Local Policies on 'transport sustainability' - so if you e havwalking, cycling and public transport options nearby you should be using those first. The policies stem from Government (NPPF) - walk 2k/cycle 5k/bus stops nearby. Of course individual practicality does not come into it - if you have to change 2 buses and the bus journey is an hou+ long is that reasonable? They dont have an answer for the finishing work at 0300hrs! Adjacent residential aeas are then covered by permit-holders only CPZ's (controlled parking Zones) to prevent overflow to obstruct the highway (there is no right to park on the highway even though you pay Road Fund Licence). Down here, employers will need to pay per space available at the work place soon! Again trying to reduce parking opportunity at the destination. L Public transport in the county is virtually non existent. I can't get a train or bus full stop let alone at the start and end time. There simply isn't any. When in london it was awkward but doable if you waited an hour sometimes for those 3am finishes, sometimes a 6am start was difficult but possible. Especially annoying when they move your place of work 43 miles for the "needs of the service" and you can do nothing about it. I shouldnt moan too much as its improved from the 66 mile each way commute it used to be. Factor in 12 hour shifts and an hour commute each way gets tiresome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted April 16, 2020 Report Share Posted April 16, 2020 hello, i am an avid user of local buses as an oldy with a bus pass, my son txt and said dont go on the bus Dad, every bus i see now there are very few people on !!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robertt Posted April 18, 2020 Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 (edited) Can't speak for all but my 3 closest hospitals have been free since the start of this crisis. Apparently they saw the payment machines as a possible source of virus transfer. Edited April 18, 2020 by Robertt Spilling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted April 18, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2020 Certainly glad to hear that the charges have been waived. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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