Should Nurses

[TWR]

Have to pay to park their cars at their place of work? on the Hospital Grounds?

[tonyav]

They pulled our old hospital down and built a new one a couple of years ago, they also made the car parks bigger !.
http://www.expressandstar.com/wpmvc/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/walsall-manor3.jpg

[jno]

depends, dzug. Hospitals are seldom really inaccessible, they're usually on public transport routes; it's just that access by bus (or whatever) may be slow or inconvenient. But private transport uses up a lot of space.

[ummmm]

I work in the town centre and don't pay for parking.

[Ellipsis]

NHS staff should get segregated car parking which should either be free or available at a lower rate to that which the general public pays to park at the hospital.

[Retrochic]

Have you got a job now Ummmmm -Congratulations!

[BRIGHT SPARK]

If the deal was that they had to pay when they signed up to the job then yes they should pay....if the opposite... then no they should not.

[Retrochic]

And what if they go to work on the bus? Should they get their fare paid for?

[SirOracle]

Move to Scotland where there is no charge for hospital car parking,with a very few exceptions these being the new privately built ones which are not owned by the NHS. They are rented at exorbitant charges.

[retrocop]

My wife tells me she pays £40 per month for parking and £120 per year (soon to go up again) to the NMC for registration. My wife qualified in 1976 with the NHS as a 3year student. She has now reduced her hours to 3 days a week as she is thinking of retiring next year. The hospital where she works is not easy to get to by public transport. Twice in the last 8 years ,due to heavy snow, Tfl buses failed to run. I drove her in in my 4 wheel drive and other nurses walked several miles to provide a service. Shame the patients were not so anxious to attend hospital. A consultant pays the same for their parking as my wife. Shows how nurses loyalty is valued by the NHS. She never expected to have to pay to a registry in order to work when she was a student nurse. If she had known then she probably wouldn't have bothered to continue in her vocation.

[DaisyNonna]

Definitely No

[tonyav]

Coincidently there is an article about hospital car park charges ( in my neck of the woods ) in our local paper.
http://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-news/2015/08/17/revealed-the-truth-about-hospital-parking-in-the-west-midlands/

[TWR]

I have started a petition to try & help the staff out regards this rip off.