NHS Staff parking fine

kiss_me_now9

headpin wrote: »

Are you sure this is the correct email address. Usually all NHS email addresses are **@(the trust name abbreviated).nhs.uk

nhs.net is not the usual end extension! It is nhs.uk

Not really, nhs.net is a secured email and so the higher ups will have a separate one as well as a 'personal' one. My work email is ***(my trust name).nhs.uk but I am just a lowly grunt - we have access in our office to a relevant nhs.net email for secure email to our department but only a few people can access it.

Mike172 wrote: »

Why would the trust, who act as a PPC, ticket their own employees?

No idea, massive row at my trust right now because they want to up the permit charges AND the ticket charges, which as someone mentioned are placed 90% of the time only on staff cars. Ours are often placed because there is a really stupid time limit on double parking - we can block other cars in until 4pm, but have to park in a space after then. Well, you tell me whether you'd be happy if you were sat in outpatients and were late for your 3:50pm appointment because your nurse was driving round the car park trying to find a space...

FWIW the private company has been in place since around July last year and so far our office total is around 30 tickets, to the 8 staff who drive. None have been paid. Rumour has it there's a doctor on one of our other sites who has over 20 tickets and he leaves them on his dash

Jed_Exodus

£40 per month is the cost of the permit at East Kent, think doctors pay a little bit more. There's other ways they could get around this. Take the licence plate and issue warnings, explain the problem and operate a 3 strikes and out whereby the permit is taken away from persistent offenders.

Instead they use it as a way of gaining income on top of the permit cost, it's just disgusting.

Jed_Exodus

This has taken a bit of a twist this morning, my wife has phoned and has received an email at work, the charge has been cancelled, they said they would have cancelled it if she had appealed the ticket. They state that they don't want to charge staff in this way but they need to keep order in the car park, which could be achieved in different ways as above.

So they've named her as driver as she holds the permit, so why go to the expense of getting my details off the DVLA then having their debt collector threaten me? Anyway the email states that they will write to me in response to the false allegations that I have simply lifted off the internet.

DoaM

Jed_Exodus wrote: »

they will write to me in response to the false allegations that I have simply lifted off the internet.

In other words .... I would have got away with it if it wasn't for those pesky (internet forum) kids.

/Scooby Doo

bazster

Jed_Exodus wrote: »

Anyway the email states that they will write to me in response to the false allegations that I have simply lifted off the internet.

That should be amusing!

Since they have presumed the permit holder to be the driver you might want to complain to DVLA about your personal details being obtained without reasonable cause i.e. if they believed they knew who the driver was what cause did they have to apply for keeper details?

Jed_Exodus

I need to wait for them to write to me before I do anything else, the email the wife received is dated 20th Feb so not sure why my response is taking so long. Maybe they're getting the responses to my FOI requests.

Jed_Exodus

I've received a response to my complaint to the BPA.

*smug mode activated

Dear Mr ******



BPA – *****



I have investigated your complaint with the operator and can advise as follows.



The keeper has the right to appeal the charge within 28 days of the Notice to Keeper being issued. We have asked the operator to amend their document to ensure this is reflected. This has now been completed.



The operator has confirmed the parking charge notice has been cancelled and the driver has been informed accordingly. The operator has also confirmed that a response will be sent to your complaint as soon as possible.



In view of the above, I have closed the investigation.



Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.



Kind regards,



AOS Investigations Team

So I now await my response from the trust about my baseless allegations. :rotfl: