Nurse with £5500 parking """fines"""

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust said: “We are a busy hospital, and work hard to make sure our parking is fair. We offer concessions for patients, including those who require regular hospital visits, and designated areas for staff.

“Wardens will only ticket those cars that have stayed over their allotted time.

“If any patient or member of staff feels they have been ticketed unfairly, we offer the chance to appeal.”


and they wonder about shortage of staff

roddydogs wrote: »

She knew she couldnt park, yet continued to rack up loads of fines, her own fault!

as in most of the hospital cases , THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH PARKING PLACES ALLOCATED TO STAFF

So how do all the other nurses manage?

having looked at enpark , and number of DVLA enquires , I suspect that they are getting the keepers details direct from the database that they or the hospital holds , the lady had her permit on display (probably with a number on it) and cross ref would be easy by empark

the proof of the pudding would be 80 seperate requests to the DVLA for info

Parking facilities can be done properly if the hospital trust has a mind to do it. Pop-up multi-story car parks will double or triple the available spaces in certain circumstances if more spaces are needed even on a long term but temporary basis.
Long term solutions can be found as has happened with the new build hospital at Southmead, Bristol accompanied by the closure of the nearby Frenchay hospital. Temporary parking and park and ride for staff and patients was provided whilst the old car park was dug up and a new multi-story car park built.

The last thing any hospital should be doing is employing an unregulated private parking company. Anyone who does even the briefest of research will discover that the unregulated private parking industry is a scam, and is only there to feed the greed of the company without any regard for actually managing the parking.
There is no advantage to an unregulated private parking company actually having people guiding cars to parking spaces, turning motorists away if there are no free spaces, and generally managing the parking flow. They would make no money if they did that.

The important thing to remember here is that the money generated does not go to the NHS or hospital trust where an unregulated private parking company is used. It goes to the unregulated private parking company.