O/T R.D.G.H new parking regulations coming into effect.

[Brin]

Thought I'd share this with everyone.

For anyone looking to visit the Rotherham District General Hospital in the future, take note there is to be a new parking system being brought into place in the New Year.

On entry to the hospital via Moorgate Road, either entry point, they are installing ANPR cameras. Fair warning to anyone who thinks it's okay to enter any car park and drive out and not paying. Typical fines for these are 100 pounds. You collect your ticket and pay in the main entrance. There are other pay machines set around the hospital and I reckon these will be brought back into use or replaced to take the expected influx of payments.

The Staff car parks are to be given up so anyone visiting may use them. The parking bays are to be marked out and painted again for clarity so selfish drivers don't take up 1.5 bays, again a fine will be enforced.

Those who have visited in the last year or so may have recognised the 'double RED' lines marked along the main entrance road
as you drive into the hospital. They carry well round the back of the hospital that covers up to the Ambulance parking bays and beyond. At the moment it's a free for all has drivers just abandon their vehicles over/on the lines and on grass verges.

Again these too are to be repainted and a strict No Parking rule will be enforced on them. I can see many a fine being dished out for the flouting on this. Pure ignorance if you choose to ignore the signs/warnings that will be put on display.

It may be all well and good this being brought into play as parking payments received all go back into the Hospital budget.
However, the very large car park opposite the hospital has already had an application to build a multi storey car park rejected because of objections from residents across the road saying it invades their privacy.

I understand their concern to a point but, who would want to visit a multi storey car park and go to a top level, get their binoculars/Monoculars out to stop and stare into someones living/bedroom when they have hospital business to attend to?

The hospital has far too many staff and patients on a daily basis where it simply isn't working and there are not enough spaces to accommodate everyone. The Multi Storey is the viable way out of this issue and someone in planning needs to rubber stamp it for approval to be built. If it was built to the same height of the hospital what's the difference? Any so called peeping tom can just go and look out a ward window to view into someone's home if they wished to do so.

[millersrus]

I was surprised It was free when I visited last month. Remember having to pay in previous years.
Re the multi storey… they cost money to build and would take a bit of paying back.

[great_fire]

I was surprised It was free when I visited last month. Remember having to pay in previous years.
Re the multi storey? they cost money to build and would take a bit of paying back.

Perhaps the machines were broke down as it's not normally free. You collect a ticket as you drive into the car park and put it in the machine inside the hospital near the exit as you leave, and pay.

[Brin]

Perhaps the machines were broke down as it's not normally free. You collect a ticket as you drive into the car park and put it in the machine inside the hospital near the exit as you leave, and pay.

I think Millersrus is referring to the outlaying machines spread across the site. They haven't worked for months so it's been a free for all but no more.

[Brin]

I was surprised It was free when I visited last month. Remember having to pay in previous years.
Re the multi storey? they cost money to build and would take a bit of paying back.

The Multi storey would pay itself back in a few years then pay in abundance, it's a no brainer, just needs approval.

Hospitals need to think outside the box and this will be a sure fire winner for them. The supposedly 'help office cabin' as you drive into the main visitors car park as been shut down for about 2 years. Total mismanagement of an earner for the hospital. Another higher Manager not doing their job!

If the Hospital removed the 'Middle Managers' who answer to those above who do feck all but use the feedback they receive , then the Government, not just hospitals, would save millions. There is too much wasted 'middle management wages' wasted on nothing. It needs a cull.

[Ericsladkilnhurst]

The Multi storey would pay itself back in a few years then pay in abundance, it's a no brainer, just needs approval.

Hospitals need to think outside the box and this will be a sure fire winner for them. The supposedly 'help office cabin' as you drive into the main visitors car park as been shut down for about 2 years. Total mismanagement of an earner for the hospital. Another higher Manager not doing their job!

If the Hospital removed the 'Middle Managers' who answer to those above who do feck all but use the feedback they receive , then the Government, not just hospitals, would save millions. There is too much wasted 'middle management wages' wasted on nothing. It needs a cull.

NHS waiting list already too long Brin, the cull will have to wait like the patients

[Brin]

NHS waiting list already too long Brin, the cull will have to wait like the patients

ELK, you've moved me to a different tangent.

Seeing Starmer's pledges today of looking to reduce patients waiting times to 18 weeks, I truly hope his Government get it right. It's a big shout and will take time. He has also pledged to employ more than 13,000 more Police Officers to be local community based which the Tories stripped out, excellent! Let's batter the street dealers and robbing scum of our society.

Education, more House biulding it's what we need to hear. You'll get your Tory Lovies on here damning him but for me feck em, wake up!

It's hard to turn around 14 years of pocket lining Tory Scumbags.

[frogmiller]

They?ve just started charging for parking at hospitals here.
The first 2 hours are free though

[howdydoo]

Oh dear.

[Ronners]

I've had family members in and out of hospital most of this year and the barriers to let you out have always been up from around April so at the moment there is still no need to pay. However, I was told they are putting ANPR cameras in but nobody on the wards I was visiting knew when it was going to happen.