We have been telling the Trust that in the current economic climate there is no justification for a rise in car parking charges.
We have been pressing the Trust to provide us with the figures relating to car parking finances, and these figures show that after paying for the MediLink service, the Security contract and all the other things that this revenue is used for, there is a surplus of £149,000.
We believe there is no justification to increase car parking fees.
What we have also learnt this week is that the all of the services currently provided by Estates and Facilities are going through a 'market testing' exercise, which will lead to a tendering process, which could lead to wholesale privatisation.
NUHT's previous experience of having services provided by the private sector has been a very poor one, even by it's own admission.
The best way to prevent this mass privatisation is the collective strength of UNISON, so I urge all non- members to join us and existing members to get active in the union.
As we enter the last shopping days before Christmas, if you are going shopping this weekend or later next week for the sales please please please follow this simple rule:
Look where you are going or go where you are looking!!
Must go now as I have to explain what Saturnalia is to my neighbours.
LHS
Bennie
According to figures obtained by Chris Skidmore MP only two months ago, the Nottingham University Hospitals already collects twice the England average for hospital car-parking fees (all other countries in the UK having given up the morally and ethically dubious practice of charging hospital patients and visitors to park), making the Nottingham University Hospitals the third greediest Trust in the country. This latest unjustified increase will give them the dubious honour of being THE most avaricious Trust in the country.
ReplyDeleteIt’s ironic that the nearer the Trust get to their supposed vision of being the best Trust in the country, the more frequently they are highlighted, in an increasing number of respects, as being the worst.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220458/Hospitals-1bn-parking-charges-years-Relatives-patients-stumping-double-decade-ago.html