howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 August 2009
19:4327555#1
in the news today our local nhs trust made a million quid last year profit on its car parking.
surely good news, i assume that it all goes back into patient care and treatment.
19 August 2009
06:5927566#2
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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19 August 2009
17:3027589#3
howard two hopes,and one of them is dead.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 August 2009
17:3527591#4
It does so I understand.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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19 August 2009
19:1427598#5
Just come back from William Harvey as my daughter is in there again and the car parks were heaving.I of course went on thebike/ bus/train/bus and it took me 2 and a half hours to get there and a hour and 50mins to get home,that is why people drive and pay high prices to park but it is wrong.
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
20 August 2009
07:0027615#6
Picking the pockets of the vulnerable and the sick is never going to be right.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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20 August 2009
08:4227625#7
Do any of you know why parking charges were introduced??
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 August 2009
12:0227634#8
To make money I would think Sue.
To pay for the car-park maintenance, the wages of the attendants and other related costs - a bit like DDC - raising income.
Roger
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20 August 2009
13:2727636#9
And sensible it is too, Sue - the NHS is and will always be stretched for cash and this is a good way to bring in some money towards healthcare.
Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
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20 August 2009
16:0127637#10
The problem is Barry that if you have an appoinment for 9am and put in the minimum amount for 3 hours you later find that everyone else has a 9am appointment and don't get seen until 2.30!
The parking at WHH is abysmal. At the K&C and QEQM I usually park in the side roads.
I have on occasions used public transport. Again the WHH is a problem and as John found out not really practical. K&C is good and the QEQM is ok but long winded.
In terms of public transport only the K&C is really accesible.
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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20 August 2009
16:0927638#11
Jean and I go to KCH quite regularly and it is only becasue Jean has a disabled pass, we don't have a problem, otherwise I would object to the cost.
It was news to me that any money went to the hospital I thought it went to those that oversee the car-park.
Roger
20 August 2009
18:4227642#12
Well don't worry about the new so called Dover Hospital as it wont have a car park or any space for one as the clever planners say everyone will walk to it or go by bus.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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20 August 2009
21:5227649#13
What you are saying is right Terry, its intolerable that the public should be treated that way, a 9.30am appointment should be 9.30....
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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20 August 2009
21:5227650#14
I cannot speak for the hospitals in this area but my daughter as i keep saying has worked for the NHS foer 22 years and her husband for even longer .I n talking last weekend about charges etc they said both having worked in other areas the charging was introduced as so many cars were an easy target for car theft and vandalism .I think Roger has got it right as the money goes towards the maintenance and the staffing .
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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20 August 2009
21:5527651#15
My son last year had to attend William Harvey caught a train from Dover Priory and then a bus outside of Ashford station straight to the hospital.Repeated the same coming home and was back home by lunch time .
21 August 2009
06:5627662#16
Glad he could apparently walk without pain or shortness of breath, had no continence issues and could see and hear and wasn't travelling with several children or a dependent.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
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21 August 2009
08:3027673#17
Fair comment Bern .It was a broken collar bone .I would like to share with you all a story regarding my late Grandad .When my Mother was three years old she pierced her eye which meant many trips to a London hospital .My Gandad had to walk several miles across fields to catch a train which I suppose from rural Essex took ages .There were seven children in the family so money was tight .
On another note when my husband was in the Brook hospital for several weeks it was a long trip by bus and train .Sometimes I took my two year old with me .On arriving home late in the evening we usually walked from Dover station back to River .
So please excuse me if sometimes I dont hold a lot of sympathy with some who expect everything for free I was brought up with little money but my parents worked hard .A trip to the doctors was a two mile cycle ride and he only visited our village once a week otherwise it was a five mile trip .. We relied heavily on our two district nurses
Rant over .
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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21 August 2009
08:4927677#18
Eh by gum Sue. Your grandad was lucky to have a field to cross..my grandad upt'north only had grimey cobble stones in wooden clogs to cross afore he could ride under the carriage of a passing coal train..
For Gawds sake the whole point of this thread was the obscene amounts of money being made by charging the relatives and friends of the sick and needy money to park their cars.
Bern and before you say it.." aye me grandad was lucky to 'ave wooden clogs"
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
21 August 2009
09:2627678#19
Marek, you are a star!! My Dad had to cross many fields and a mountain in rural Ireland just to get to school after he had fed the animals and worked on the farm in the morning, where he again worked after school. There were no trains.....................
Excuse me if I have no sympathy with Sues lack of sympathy for people who "expect everything for free". We've all had struggles and pain, and we all know people who "want something for nothing". What's that got to do with the price of fish? Yours and my parewnts working hard has absolutelynothing to do with rip off parking in hospitals, where people visiting dying relatives or loved ones in trauma and pain have the added anxiety about parking fees and clamping.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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21 August 2009
09:5727681#20
marek got in before me there.
mind you, his grandad was luckier than mine with his wooden clogs.