„Als Krebspatient sollte ich mir darüber keine Sorgen machen müssen“ – gefährdete Patienten zahlen bis zu 17 € pro Tag für das Parken von Krankenhausparkplätzen

Same for staff. We have to hike miles from off site parking facilities. These facilities are aimed towards staff with daytime 9-5 or shift hours. So if yiu work an oncall system, you might find youraelf trekking to your car for 30 minutes at 3am in the morning.

Been there, done that. Spent 6 years in hospitals with my husband that had cancer, to pay an insane amount parking fees… we spent a fortune on it, that could have been spent on making him more comfortable ( whether it would be warm clothes, mental health help or a take out that he wpuld enjoy when he felt like eating). Treatments are free (ish) but cancer makes you poor.

It’s such a difficult time, the parking charges just add on a load of unnecessary worry.
When my cousin was dying the hospital gave her parents a voucher that reduced parking I think from about 20 a day to 5, it helped financially but it also helped them feel that someone was looking out for them and recognized this was a really bad situation.
I’ve also generally seen the parking barriers off at night for people coming into a&e not having to pay overnight parking charges.
It wouldn’t take much to help the vulnerable patients and show a bit of empathy and connection at a difficult time.

Yet if you ate a private patient you get free parking at St Vincent cancer care.

There is a certain private hospital I work in that has recently outcast the *entire* staff parking lot to make way for more patient/visitor parking.

Mind you, our department alone (before costs and the sort) bring in about 19 million a year.

The new parking available for visitors and patients? Not renovated, not painted over, still a fucking shithole in the back of the grounds, 3 minutes walk from the main entrance? *You’re paying to stay there*.

After 9 months of consultations, and against the will of every single member of staff who ever stood up at the fake as can fucking be “town hall meetings”, they still kicked the staff out of the grounds.

If your shift starts at 9, you better show up at 7 for a spot that’s *only* 4 minutes away. If you’re *only* 70 minutes early for your shift, well at least you dodged the school traffic so now you can steal their drop off point and still be a 10-15 minute walk from the nearest gate.

All of that was just to get off the chest as Christmas into new years is a rough spot now, as we watch private become more and more open in terms of working hours because there’s profit to be had, and we always get shafted on about a 10 days notice to Christmas, but what I’m saying is this article won’t matter, none of it matters, private and public are morphing into one incestuous bastard that only cares about the bottom line and what the analysts and private consultancy firms think they can milk out of you.

Let me guess. These cars parks are privatized?