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05/03/2008, 10:53 AM ROBERT Joined on 16/08/2003 NR Gt. Yarmouth Posts 3,442 Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? With the Welsh banning hospital car parking charges...... it will be interesting to see which hospitals follow their example in Norfolk.......    Report

05/03/2008, 3:05 PM C C Joined on 21/08/2003 Posts 1,250 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? Remember the old saying 'where there's muck there's money'. The modern version, 'where there's cars there's cash'                 Report

05/03/2008, 3:25 PM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 1,051 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? The administrators of Hospital car parks are illogical. They need maximum parking space so they plant weedy shrubs all over the place-its a car park dammit. Then they have sick people attending OPs clinics, people giving lifts to those having tough treatment like radiotherapy, people having diagnostic tests where they might prefer the comfort of a car afterwards and worried or sad people visiting the sick. So they make them all feel better by charging them a fortune to park. And knowing they serve rural areas with sparse bus services they trot out their use public transport mantra- well the trip to my hospital takes 3x as long by bus as by car.Then they introduce pay on foot/ insert a ticket at a barrier-and then when it doesnt work in the middle of the night poor old dears who cant hear properly are flummoxed by the *&%  that comes out of the loudspeaker and end up having to go back in to the hospital for help.And the first half hour free-when did anyone get in and out of an outpatients appointment in less than that! If the trusts are short of money maybe we should look at the facilities provided for the staff out of the NHS funding.    Report

06/03/2008, 5:18 PM trekker Joined on 09/11/2007 Norwich Posts 60 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? I heard on the news that the Norfolk & Norwich collected in the region of £1.1 million in car park charges last year. Does any one have any more info?    Report

06/03/2008, 7:13 PM Dek Joined on 15/08/2003 Norwich Posts 1,042 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? I ws always under the impression that the N and N hospital car park was  run by a private concern, not the hospital itself.  Dek. Laugh, and the wife laughs with you. Snore and you`ll sleep alone.    Report

06/03/2008, 7:26 PM Web Team - Celia Sutton Joined on 11/08/2003 Posts 542 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? This is a recent EDP story: Norfolk's flagship hospital earns more than almost any other in Britain from its parking charges, an internal NHS report reveals. http://new.edp24.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&itemid=NOED24%20Feb%202008%2019:51:01:477&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=search    Report

07/03/2008, 7:41 AM john Joined on 07/08/2007 Posts 1,024 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? The hospital appears to be grousing about the number of visitors and out patients they get on a daily basis.The short answer to that is limit the visiting hours to say 2 hrs and stagger the times for the wards.I wonder how many of the out patients arrive by taxi and ambulance.It used to be visiting time 6p.m-8 p.m at our hospitals and each patient was allowed two visitors.Two parking tickets were supplied to the patient for their friends.Cars without a permit should not be allowed on the car park except for the Emergency and Maternity Wards.We get it where people park their cars on the hospital car park and then just walk into town to do their shopping.Yes the spokesman for the hospital is right,it is cheap parking for shoppers.Again,why build hospitals where there is no access by public transport.We have two hospitals where it woul;d be impossible for me to get there using public transport.People with no personal transport would have to use the ambulance service for visits to the out patients.What a waste when that ambulance could be out saving lives.John    Report

07/03/2008, 8:21 AM Snuggles Joined on 08/04/2007 Posts 526 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..?  gardener wrote: The administrators of Hospital car parks are illogical. They need maximum parking space so they plant weedy shrubs all over the place-its a car park dammit. Well said. When the new N&N was being planned I remember reading that it would have fewer beds than the old one, and wondering how they could do such a stupid thing.   Islam is like whisky. Some drink it neat.    Report

07/03/2008, 10:41 AM nevermind Joined on 28/05/2007 Posts 1,434 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? The N&N university hospital, currently bursting out of the seems provided for them on a greenfield site, with ever new utility buildings springing up never envisaged before, has always had the biggest carpark in Norfolk, it is huge and was designed to make money from the start. The old N&N had 1200 beds whilst this one has barely 900, with 60 permanently allocated to private patients, off course nearby BUPA benefits most from its direct access to the N&N, whilst the rest of the county still has no direct dedicated ambulance access from the southern bypass, access to the hospital could be cut by 1min.30 seconds.  The old hospital could have provided undergound carparking and have the same 1200 beds in a modern new City center development if they listened to other architects and had employed someone else to oversee the restructuring of the N&N.   Still no alternative to road transport has been given any consideration despite the possibilities of a viable tram, running a ring service, co-using the wymondham line rail and aiding South Norfolks and Norwichs desire to grow the City to the south towards wymondham, eventually joining the two. Currently these two councils are not doing very much in restricting the growth in roadspace, aiding and abetting more cars on the road and relying solely on one basket for all of our eggs, whilst the N&N is feeding of the sick people and their relatives. Thanks to a direct Bus connection to the N&N via the Newmarket road access, something I argued for from the start, people have an adequate connection to it, but the N&N should use the money from carparking to subsidise busprices on these routes for both companies Anglian and First, so more people use the buses and leave their car at home. nevermind      Report

07/03/2008, 10:49 AM gardener Joined on 04/10/2007 Posts 1,051 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..? So does everyone Snuggles. I seem to remember a lot of people saying it was being built in the wrong place-( I followed an ambulance all the way from Necton to Colney the other day, what a journey for any patient inside). And a lot of people saying it was going to be too small and too expensive but they were pooh poohed by those who wanted  it up near the university so it could be a teaching hospital. Not only was it built too small to cope with any potential rise in population it is too small to cope with current demand .Did the planners really expect people to drive down from Cromer, park in Norwich somewhere and get a bus to the hospital? A big free car park should have been a priority, even if visitors had pay a few pence to get a ticket to prove they were genuine visitors/patients.    Report

07/03/2008, 11:08 AM BB Joined on 14/10/2006 Posts 1,004 Re: Will any Norfolk Hospitals scrap car parking charges..?  Snuggles wrote:  gardener wrote: The administrators of Hospital car parks are illogical. They need maximum parking space so they plant weedy shrubs all over the place-its a car park dammit. Well said. When the new N&N was being planned I remember reading that it would have fewer beds than the old one, and wondering how they could do such a stupid thing.   Indeed, it's true, Snuggles.  When the new Norfolk & Norwich Hospital opened towards the end of 2001, as I understand it, Malcolm Stamp, the then Chief Executive, had placed an order for portacabins, so even at a very early stage of this hospital's life, it was already inadequate.    Report

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