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Ah right!

Most people that work in town centres have to pay for parking.

Chilly

Thanks for the replies.Car park fees today,the air we breathe tomorrow.
May I take this opportunity to apologise on behalf of all N.H.S.staff to Mr.Blair & Co. for being an unwanted necessity. I will try to better myself and become an M.P. then and only then shall I be worthy of free parking,subsidised food (we lost that perk last year ) and the best pension deal in the land.
I am now tugging my forelock.
Your humble servant,
Tony.

£1 per month, now that seems cheap !
BUT.........................
£30 per month !? (ouch !)

currently £11.87p per month here.

We currently do not pay but the trust is bringing in a charge of £5 per week or £260 per year. They will also be rationing permits but no one is guaranteed a parking space, unless you are a consultant of course. The council have agreed to increase the restrictions in parking on the roads near the hospital and have just recently announced that these roads will be actively targeted by traffic wardens. We operate a flexi-time system which means that we can start work as late as 10:00 if we want, the problem is that the car parks are full by at least 8:30. If we want to start work later than 8:30 it will be almost impossible to arrive by car even though we need to use the car for work.

Sorry, I've gone into rant mode. I'ts one thing after another here. I'm sure the rest of the NHS is just the same, at least we have no redunancies yet.

As we service other trusts we have to have a serviceable vehicle on site at all times (no car no job) and have to pay £32.00 per year to park here. We also have to have first class business use on our own vehicle so the trust can claim on our insureance if their equipment is damaged whilst we are doing work for them !!!!

I bet your Estates Department has its own van. Why do biomed departments not have their own vehicle supplied by the Trust (actually, I have seen one or two that do, but they are very much the exception)? Is it because the techs actually prefer to use their own, I wonder? A place I was at recently wanted £ 90 for an annual parking permit (and that covered just one of the two main sites in the Trust). I refused to fork out that sort of money from my own pocket (and this was one of the reasons I decided not to stick around). I always insist that if they want you to be a driver, then they should provide the vehicle and pay all related expenses. I have never been able to get my head around the mind-set that using your own vehicle is some sort of perk. Surely it’s just the reverse! “No car – no job” – stuff the job!

Presently no charge here, although some of my colleagues in other Dublin hospitals have to pay. When we move to our new home in an acute hospital that will be an issue; but hay that's why I bike to work. Quicker to :-)

£10 a one off payment, but fully expecting to have to pay again 1 yr on, got stung the other week i parked in a bay next to the staff parking lot as it was full and got landed with a £40 fine, reduced to £15 if paid within 14 days, this was at the royal shrewsbury hospital.

There is a hospital that my mother attends on a regular basis that charges disabled people to park at the hospital. The charge being the same for able bodied or disabled.