Machines Covered, 5 PCNs - Court

Coupon-mad

No, because there are lots of victims and the complaint to the IPC had this poster as a lead complainant. The others are considering their options but are somewhat busy with their jobs, I'm sure.

Snakes_Belly

Grant Shapps was talking on the programme with Piers Morgan this morning and saying that NHS staff should not be paying parking charges and that there must have been a breakdown in communication.

When I turned on the TV this conversation had already started so I did not hear all of it but it came over clear that NHS should not be charged for parking. 

 

D_P_Dance

Personally, I believe that Hospital car parking should be more affordable.  My son was charged £3 for just over an hour in Royal Berks recently.

fisherjim

D_P_Dance said:

Personally, I believe that Hospital car parking should be more affordable.  My son was charged £3 for just over an hour in Royal Berks recently.

My wife is a nurse and was being charged £30 a month deducted from her salary to park her car at the three hospitals she had to visit within her trust.

When she went out of area to visit patients in other NHS hospitals she had to pay that hospital's parking fees on top.

The mileage allowance was claimed via a computer mapping program that chose the most direct route post code to post code, with no allowance for traffic detours etc., and didn't cover the petrol used. Her insurance had to be for business travel, which was more expensive at her cost.

I fought the notorious UKPC for her (and won) over a faded parking permit they said was not valid.

She has now retired early as along with many other things to do with how they were treated she'd had enough, and they say they value NHS staff.

Dexcat88

I agree. I don't think staff or patients should have to pay to park when using a hospital car park. For staff they are paying to work and for patients/visitors its not exactly somewhere they WANT to be. Its stressful enough they shouldn't have to pay out ££ for the joy. This case wasn't the trust car park. I already pay monthly for that! 

My colleagues all messaged this morning about Good Morning Britain. I didn't see it. 

nosferatu1001

Any allowance not repaid could have been claimed through tax, as an FYI

Snakes_Belly

It's bad for full time carers as well who only receive a small carer's allowance which is stopped after the patient has been in hospital for a certain time. Most carers are visiting the patient regularly and taking in food, drinks, toileteries and clean clothing, underwear etc. as well as petrol and parking expenses. The cost does not go down when the person being cared for is in hospital it goes up.

I find it very difficult to understand the mindset of the PPC's when it comes down to parking claims issued to people who are putting others before themselves and the most vulnerable.  

I guess that the pandemic has bought out the best in some people but unfortunately the worst in others.

fisherjim

At the main hospital where my Wife worked they had self ticketing, so the trust employed an older chap for years, who checked the car parks and issued the PCN's as a lst resort.

He would help you carry bags, he would advise you where not to park, wait for you if you were in a prohibited place and was a general good guy.

They told him to stop being helpful and issue more PCN's, no doubt UKPC weren't getting their bunce.

Well he told them to stick their job, fair play to him, along came the UKPC goons instead and up went their revenue.

However a couple of years on they have realised their folly, and sacked UKPC at last.

D_P_Dance

When she went out of area to visit patients in other NHS hospitals she had to pay that hospital's parking fees on top.

Surely she can claim them back, plus mileage. 

Snakes_Belly

D_P_Dance said:

When she went out of area to visit patients in other NHS hospitals she had to pay that hospital's parking fees on top.

Surely she can claim them back, plus mileage. 

It can be quite complicated. I have not worked in the public sector where this applied to me. In the private sector it depends where your base is. If it is your home then you should get mileage from your home and parking. If your base is not your home then it is what you pay in excess of travel costs to your base.