! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.
Hospital staff at the debt-ridden Shrewsbury & Telford hospitals might end up paying up to £120 per year for the privelege of parking at work.
The hospitals are struggling to clear a mountain of debt, hindered by the unwillingness of the Welsh government to pay the going rate for treating Welsh patients, the underfunding of the English NHS to pay for the overfunding of the NHS in the rest of the UK and the instruction from the Minister for Health to pay a few million into a regional NHS bank.
Charging hospital staff to park at work is one of the ideas put forward to help pay the debts, along with cuts to services throughout the county.
Still, as long as Scottish cancer patients can get their expensive drugs it’s worth it isn’t it?
Nothing new. At the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary they even charge the staff to park their bikes!
You’d think they’d encourage the use of bikes, and they do, by charging cyclists less to park than motorists. Contemptible bastards.