Hospital Car Parks .. Robbin B******S
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Charged £3.80p to Park AND having a Prostate examination?
They had you bent over twice there mate but at least they had the decency to apply a bit of KY on the Examination
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Cascade
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Dave
Definitely £3.80 for 37mins bud, parked in the public car park and not in A&E or drop off `s bit late to ask for a refund and the machine kept the ticket
Bob
Having just spent six consecutive days at hospital, visiting my wife in the maternity ward, I have to say the whole system of car parking in hospitals is wrong. It would have cost me an extra £90 in parking tickets and considering my lovely employers only see fit to pay me three days paternity, it's money I can ill afford. Thankfully, there is a council run car park 3 mins away which cost £3 a day.
I remember there being a big hoo ha in London when I lived there about people using hospital car parks as a free place to park before going in to work and I certainly remember them being excruciatingly painful to park in....but Hereford? Especially when the cheap car park is right by the train station.
It is a racquet pure and simple, private companies getting their sticky fingers in and as always with this country, those people who are struggling most get hit hard.
I remember there being a big hoo ha in London when I lived there about people using hospital car parks as a free place to park before going in to work and I certainly remember them being excruciatingly painful to park in....but Hereford? Especially when the cheap car park is right by the train station.
It is a racquet pure and simple, private companies getting their sticky fingers in and as always with this country, those people who are struggling most get hit hard.
That's PFI for you. Balfour Beatty built it and now control the facilities management (or did last time I looked. I did hear a rumour that someone else has the FM contract now but not verified). It's the FM company that levy the charge I believe and it's them that collect it. I'm not sure how much of the profits go back into the hospital, if any.
Yes it's robbery and you're stuck behind barriers til you've paid so not much option there.
I was also of the understanding that the first 20 mins are free.
Cascade
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I emailed the NHS trust at PGI giving them the facts of my complaint re: Parking
They replied .. 20mins free .. this is to allow for people to make sure they are in the correct area and for drop offs etc when all other areas are full or, busy.
They are aware of some fault with the programing of the barriers as in their words, they have had quite a lot of complaints from the public about parking charges and, if I take my appointment letter into their admin dept they will issue an appropriate form for me to obtain a refund from the controlling authority, whom I believe to be Balfour Beatty, the hospital tell me that they have nothing to do with or, have any income from the car parks at PGI.
We`ll see
Bob
They replied .. 20mins free .. this is to allow for people to make sure they are in the correct area and for drop offs etc when all other areas are full or, busy.
They are aware of some fault with the programing of the barriers as in their words, they have had quite a lot of complaints from the public about parking charges and, if I take my appointment letter into their admin dept they will issue an appropriate form for me to obtain a refund from the controlling authority, whom I believe to be Balfour Beatty, the hospital tell me that they have nothing to do with or, have any income from the car parks at PGI.
We`ll see
Bob
its a few years since I lived in Wakefield
csl
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Isn't that just a temporary situation until the new carpark is built? We are one of the contractors on site and I know parking was a nightmare when the new hospital first opened!
I think we are the ones building the new car park actually.
I do know of a hospital that started to charge because the bus service into town was so good it was used as a park and ride. However by charging a reasonable amount and making it so that these users would have to return in their lunch hour to get another ticket surely costs to genuine users could be reasonable. Many users are out patients as well as visitors costs should be fair. Many hospital car parks are disappearing under new facilities and foundation trust HQ's, seems a bit self defeating if sick people can't park when the get there to use them.
paul o'
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I f ******** can't work out why as a tax payer who pays for the NHS only then to be charge £££££ a day for going for an appointment made by my GP to be kept waiting for hours after the allotted time due to some influx of none paying ******s taking up the time ,only then to be charged again for the benefit of the counsel, that i pay for to live in the town and they wages just so they can charge me for the use of my hospital that they decide i should attend !!!!!!! AHHHH.
I got a ticket 12 yrs ago due to leaving my car without a Sticker after we had to rush my wife into A&E after a fall when carrying my son !!!! did't pay it and got a court order did't pay it feck em, they dropped it after 20 weeks as they had't asked why i had no time to find a working ticket thing at 6:50 in the morning i said if i pay'd it i would take out a counter court order and bring charges out again't the doctor for not getting to her within two hrs and the result of this she needed an emergency C section son was ok but a near thing as the ward sister informed me the next day.
My rant over .
I f ******** can't work out why as a tax payer who pays for the NHS only then to be charge £££££ a day for going for an appointment made by my GP to be kept waiting for hours after the allotted time due to some influx of none paying ******s taking up the time ,only then to be charged again for the benefit of the counsel, that i pay for to live in the town and they wages just so they can charge me for the use of my hospital that they decide i should attend !!!!!!! AHHHH.
I got a ticket 12 yrs ago due to leaving my car without a Sticker after we had to rush my wife into A&E after a fall when carrying my son !!!! did't pay it and got a court order did't pay it feck em, they dropped it after 20 weeks as they had't asked why i had no time to find a working ticket thing at 6:50 in the morning i said if i pay'd it i would take out a counter court order and bring charges out again't the doctor for not getting to her within two hrs and the result of this she needed an emergency C section son was ok but a near thing as the ward sister informed me the next day.
My rant over .
Jimbo 30 06
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I see someone has watched Rip Off Britain this morning I didn't think it would be long before it was on here !!!!!!!!. But answering the post yes we are being ripped off we as Tax payers own the NHS and parking should be free anywhere not just Hospitals. We pay a road fund licence for our vehicles to be on the road in motion or stationary also fuel tax, I understand that no parking areas have to be but car parks should available free of charge nearby.
Jimbo
Jimbo
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Hereford County Hospital? Officially the most expensive in the country for parking charges. Unfortunately it was one of the very first PFI contracts 'negotiated' by the dimwits in the DoH and we got properly shafted. All the receipts are retained by the contract holder with nothing going towards funding any aspects of health care.
Some might think that the civil service is incompetent and couldn't negotiate their way out of a wet paper-bag. What is fascinating is the number of senior civil servants who end up on the boards of PFI companies and/or their partner organisations...
Jimbo 30 06
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Are you also a Doctor like darkstaker if so are you in urology I am just guessing by your avatar (man with erect digleling)
Jimbo
Cascade
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Kettle calling pot black I think 
