Sick humour

[snooky]

Here's a real laugh. Hospital car parks in England made £174m profit .
Some of the excuses they use for the high charges are hilarious.
Oh how we laughed on the way to the operating theatre.

[stu in nottingham]

The NHS car parks in my NHS Trust area made the fourth highest profits in the country.

That's if you can actually get to park which is by no means a given. The latter actually makes visiting the main hospitals prohibitive.

It's a total disgrace.

[Speedy]

Provided a decent chunk of it goes towards health services I don't mind.

[Moulin Yarns]

Provided a decent chunk of it goes towards health services I don't mind.

In most cases the car park is run by a private company. The NHS Trust will get an annual fee but the parking charge goes to the private company.

[Speedy]

In most cases the car park is run by a private company. The NHS Trust will get an annual fee but the parking charge goes to the private company.

I was meaning via the annual fee for the contract.

Wouldn't surprise me if it's significantly underpriced though.

[snooky]

I have no doubt the bloodsuckers will be getting their pound of flesh .... and more.

[hibby6270]

Think the deal in Scotland is that if it’s privately funded hospital when built, car parks are free. Hospital built using taxpayer’s money, car park charges apply.

Examples being - St John’s in Livingston (private funding) - free.
RIE in Edinburgh - (taxpayer funded) - you pay.

[McD]

Think the deal in Scotland is that if it’s privately funded hospital when built, car parks are free. Hospital built using taxpayer’s money, car park charges apply.

Examples being - St John’s in Livingston (private funding) - free.
RIE in Edinburgh - (taxpayer funded) - you pay.


Is that a relatively new deal/situation, St. John’s used to be a pay car park

[overdrive]

Think the deal in Scotland is that if it’s privately funded hospital when built, car parks are free. Hospital built using taxpayer’s money, car park charges apply.

Examples being - St John’s in Livingston (private funding) - free.
RIE in Edinburgh - (taxpayer funded) - you pay.

Is it not whether the hospital was signed up to a private contract for the parking at the point the government scrapped the parking charges? It is generally the PFI hospitals that I think charge as parking generally comes under the PFI contract, hence why you pay at RIE but not at the Western.

[ACLeith]

Is it not whether the hospital was signed up to a private contract for the parking at the point the government scrapped the parking charges? It is generally the PFI hospitals that I think charge as parking generally comes under the PFI contract, hence why you pay at RIE but not at the Western.

That's my understanding of it as well, OD.

[ronaldo7]

Is it not whether the hospital was signed up to a private contract for the parking at the point the government scrapped the parking charges? It is generally the PFI hospitals that I think charge as parking generally comes under the PFI contract, hence why you pay at RIE but not at the Western.

:agree:

[vincipernoi]

Other way around I think. RIE was pfi st John's was pre pfi

[blackpoolhibs]

Not sure anymore about Scotland, but here in Blackpool i have needed to use the hospital car park quite regularly over the years.

In the early years i had to either be dropped off or get a taxi, as there was very limited space.

Now there is a huge car park built, and i can always get parked but at a cost which i think is on the expensive side compared to Blackpool in general.

There needs to be a happy medium in my opinion, which i don't believe is the case at the moment.

[Kavinho]

https://theferret.scot/snp-government-did-not-fully-end-hospital-parking-charges-in-2008/


Snp ended parking fees at 14 of 17 sites in 2008, arguing that pfi contracts agreed before they came to power meant that they were too expensive to buy out.


I remember, vividly, spending 2 weeks of 10+ hrs a day bedside of a family member on the 'Liverpool pathway', and spending an absolute fortune daily on parking at the RIE, as did other family members.

It was a disgusting and inhumane burden to place on the family of someone about to pass away.

Im still angry about it. Sickening profiteering off ill people and their relatives

[snooky]

https://theferret.scot/snp-government-did-not-fully-end-hospital-parking-charges-in-2008/


Snp ended parking fees at 14 of 17 sites in 2008, arguing that pfi contracts agreed before they came to power meant that they were too expensive to buy out.


I remember, vividly, spending 2 weeks of 10+ hrs a day bedside of a family member on the 'Liverpool pathway', and spending an absolute fortune daily on parking at the RIE, as did other family members.

It was a disgusting and inhumane burden to place on the family of someone about to pass away.

Im still angry about it. Sickening profiteering off ill people and their relatives

I don't know how these people sleep at night.
Actually I do, they have no moral compass whatsoever.