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Emma
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Surely the answer is to have a ticket validation service for genuine patients. You take a ticket on the way in and then when you show your appointment card or similar at the reception desk they validate the card for you. This obviously doesn’t sort out the issue with there simply not being enough space for everyone. Perhaps the hospital could offer cheap or free bus passes to staff who want them.

My old employer had a permit system we paid for but would issue many times more permits than there were spaces. And then to add to the piss taking were taking on private companies and “tenants” for their bio/business incubator projects and attracting them with reserved parking, which was originally there for the paying staff. A FOI request indicated they made close to £200k a year from parking permits.