A Nottingham hospital worker has said she feels stressed and tired after waiting five years for a parking permit. Julie Best, a healthcare assistant at City Hospital, is sometimes forced to make a two-hour round trip from Mansfield in order to park elsewhere.
The 47-year-old mum, who applied for a permit before starting her role in 2017, hit out at the delay. "I'm more tired and it's stressful. It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous," she told Nottinghamshire Live.
Parking fees were waived for NHS workers across the country at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic before the government stopped the scheme from April 1. Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), the trust running Queen's Medical Centre and City Hospital, reintroduced the charges last week.
