NHS England parking from April 2020

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Article about the new free parking for BB holders etc from April 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-50903266

Interesting comment about NHS trusts ignoring the old guidelines too

We can only hope that perhaps the new Mhclg CoP will come out in the early part of 2020 too , meaning it's almost a year since the royal assent , which is one year too long for me !!

twhitehousescat

in many cases it is not the cost of parking at hospitals . it is the hoops that parking cos make a person jump thru

Fruitcake

No mention of removing unregulated parking scammers, just a comment that some form of management is needed to stop people parking who shouldn't be there. How can you tell? How can a scamera tell?

The article uses the F word, but only £1.5 per year? That seems a bit light to me.

twhitehousescat

ANPR type cameras are not sutable on those types of site for checking if people have left site

beamerguy

Again in the Daily Mail
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7829015/Private-parking-companies-threaten-NHS-patients-small-hospital-car-park-fines.html

Commenting on Mr Sampson's case, a Parking Eye spokesman said an independent appeals body had reviewed the case and ruled in their favour.

POPLA is now a disgusting organisation who cannot see the wood from the trees ? The quicker they are kicked into the long grass and return to the vipers nest they came from, ..... the better

The_Deep

The barriers at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading have been malfunctioning since Jue and parking has been free since then. As a consequence the townsfolk have been flocking in.

The last time I visited I could not park anywhere near the hospital and had to leave the Memsahib there and go home.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-50348215

Snakes_Belly

And last month he received a letter plastered with the logo of the Channel 5 television show 'Can't Pay? We'll take it away'. The programme follows bailiffs as they storm into debtors houses, rifling through drawers and seizing assets.

This is pure evil. They may make huge profits but they have sold their souls.

beamerguy

Snakes_Belly wrote: »

This is pure evil. They may make huge profits but they have sold their souls.

It's only a matter of time that DCBL (CAN'T PAY etc) are going to be made to look idiots when they get spanked for abuse of process.

Then the new title should be "We will abuse you if you can't pay"

DCBL are just part of the abuse cartel running