Hospital parking pain (From The Northern Echo)
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Hospital parking pain
11:23am Tuesday 9th February 2010 in
ON Tuesday, February 2, I had to go to Darlington Memorial Hospital for an operation at 10am. My friend and I got there at 9.40am. We then spent the next 20 minutes trying to find a parking space.
The tailback on the entry to the hospital was at least 20 cars long. We eventually found a space that was reserved for other patients, which only added to the trauma of the impending operation.
This procedure could have been carried out at Bishop Auckland General Hospital, but – as usual – the powers-that-be know better.
If we can no longer use this £67m facility at Bishop Auckland as a hospital, could the same powers-that-be build a multi-storey car park at Darlington Memorial Hospital?
Let’s face it, they make a fortune out of these places in parking fees, so it would pay for itself in no time.
Doreen Wilson-Allan, Kirk Merrington, Spennymoor, Co Durham.
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dolanp1 says...
1:02pm Tue 9 Feb 10
Anyone who has an appointment at the Memorial would be well advised to use the ambulance pick-up service as this will deliver them to the Memorial and pick them up for transporting back to their homes and will also increase the work load on the service, which, hopefully will encourage the ambulance service to help get the incompetents who are running the Memorial to do something about the services it provides.