Patients who spend more than four hours in a health board’s free car parks will be fined. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have decided to issue the penalties despite the Scottish Government scrapping parking charges at the country’s hospitals.
Other controls – including cutting the number of spaces – have also infuriated staff who say it is making them late for work. Scottish Labour’s health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie, said: “The four-hour target time for A&E treatment has been consistently missed by the SNP government and so to allow people no more than four hours for parking before penalties are issued will not always be sufficient.
“Attending hospital can be an anxious time for patients and their loved ones and so the hassle and expense of parking should not add to that. It is simply shocking that hardworking NHS staff are having to pay through the nose or park miles away from hospitals.
