Parking Eye charge Burton Hospitals VAT

Stroma

Well a FOI request to Burton Hospitals reveals that Parking Eye are charging in excess of £[TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM]k a month in VAT for tickets at this site. That equates to at least 1500 tickets a month, or 75 tickets a day!

Which comes in at £[TEXT DELETED BY FORUM TEAM]k a month that they are earning out of the sick from this hospital alone! And that does not include the unpaid ones, so that figure of ticketing is far far higher!

This comes out of the pockets of not people abusing the car parks, but who have no choice but to use these car parks because they are either patients, visitors or staff! These people could be seeing patients who are dying, getting treated for cancer. Or maybe the staff treating these people!

Its a disgrace!

A list of suppliers whose total invoices are more than £25,000 in any one month of 2014

Please see attached. Please note that with regard to ParkingEye (the Trust’s car park provider), this is a VAT only invoice – the Trust is able to fully reclaim the VAT, therefore, the cost to the Trust is zero.

Ivor_Pecheque

Complete disgrace.

At least I have the choice to shop, or not, at Aldi. Or surf, or not, at Fistral.

People attending a hospital rarely would be there out of choice. What worries me, is that if this how they commission parking services, how can they be trusted to commission health services ?

Redx

agreed, it even came up in parliament the other day when Burton was mentioned by the local MP and also the MP,s mentioned that people go to hospitals by necessity and not through personal choice

frankly, these trusts should be ashamed of themselves and I would have thought parliament would have more power to regulate them seeing as its a government provided and funded industry

the sooner they abolish NHS parking charges in england and wales the better , if not other industries too

The_Slithy_Tove

This needs some very pointed correspondence to the completely arrogant waste of space who is the chief exec of that hospital. As a public servant, surely she has some very difficult questions to answer, particularly as she refused to accept that the whole parking system SHE approved and later defended is clearly fatally flawed. She is an utter disgrace and should be fired immediately.

Or maybe write to my MP, who happens to be the Health Secretary...

This state of affairs should also be raised with the latest hospital (can't remember which one now) who are adopting the same criminal system.


Parking Eye, you also are a total disgrace and you should all be in jail for behaviour like this.

Redx

mine is the SHADOW H,S, who I wrote to several weeks ago , so clearly he liked my email as he thanked me for it , lol

they should have drafted stronger powers in that POFA 2012 and maybe the CQC should bring parking issues and provision under their inspections umbrella as its all part of the care package and the NHS is supposed to be free at the point of sale

Stroma

RedX

There are no parking charges in a vast majority of hospitals in Wales , there are currently 4 hospitals that do still charge I believe, but once the contract ends it cannot be renewed.

Stroma

Prankster has blogged about this now
http://parking-prankster.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/parkingeye-make-over-15-million-year.html

Redx

somebody should tell gary barlow that he is better to invest in dubious parking companies that allow these profits at the expense of the Inland Revenue and vat chargebacks instead of tax avoidance schemes of a more dubious nature

Stroma

The local press
https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Heather-Wheeler-takes-Queen-s-Hospital-parking/story-22868188-detail/story.html

Umkomaas

Stroma wrote: »

The local press
https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Heather-Wheeler-takes-Queen-s-Hospital-parking/story-22868188-detail/story.html

Liked this comment on the above newspaper article.

Well done Heather Wheeler, MP, and the Burton Mail for giving the story good coverage. Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary has issued guidance which says 'Contracts should not be let on any basis that incentivises fines, eg 'income from penalties only', the system at the Burton Hospitals uses this system. If you read the minutes of the Car Parking Meeting, 5 Nov 2013, [ get them under the 'Freedom of Information Act'] they read as if a collective of mobsters were out to reign terror on a rival gang. There is no mention of the interests of the patients, service users, or staff. We hear of PROSECUTIONS, when car parking is NOT A CRIMINAL ACT! When a tort has taken place, a person is SUED in a civil court. So much for the NHS Constitution, with its first words 'The NHS belongs to the people' and 'Patients come first in everything we do .... This racketeering policy must, go, and the people who installed it MUST answer for there mistakes, so if Mrs Wheeler is your MP, let her know your views, and if she is not your MP, lobby him/her, and don't let Jeremy Hunt's guidance fall by the way-side!

bazster

Pranky is reporting that Burton hospitals got their figures wrong in the response to the FOI request and in fact P.E. are only chiselling at least £420,000 p.a. out of the sick.

So that's all right then.