Plans to sell off hospital land for housing developments revealed

“Parking for staff , patients , and visitors should have priority over housing , residential areas adjoining the hospital are already suffering from non resident parking ! Renovate the old workhouse for hospitaL staff and student nurses to live in , it could save them fuel costs and travelling time .”

“if you have missed it the nhs as you know it is being slowly privatized , bit by bit , so as with any private corp, it would have to make money from any private venture, housing being the quickest turn around for them”

“As most of us have discovered over the last decade or so, publicly owned organizations with the word "Trust" in their titles, tend to generate exactly the opposite feeling in those compelled to use the services of such"Trusts".

I would venture to suggest that the Trust Director of Facilities is using the convenience of a central government policy to obscure a desire on the part of the Trust to sell anything and everything it can, in order to:

(a) balance its accounts
(b) absolve itself of onerous? decision making tasks which cannot be measured by stopwatch or ticks in a box
(c) avoid any action which will ultimately improve the "hospital facilities experience" of patients and staff alike
(d) attempt to evade any form of public criticism”

“Parking is also a nightmare for staff. Staff pay a monthly fee out of their salary for parking, which if you are lucky will find a space, if not you then have no choice but to park in another area of the hospital which has been sold off to another company, thus receiving parking fines, how about that? Fined whilst looking after patients! How about using the land for a much needed parking area? All comes down to one thing. Money.”

“More car parking space is desperately needed. The fatcats would make a killing from extra monies that would raise... especially using their current scam where the times on the ticket issue machine and the pay machines are NOT synchronised. I was there a few weeks ago. Was in the hospital for 35 minutes, but there was a couple of minutes difference between ticket and machine times plus the obligatory queue to pay for the ticket - kerching - another £1.90 bites the dust.

They've got a really nice scam going there.”

“A stupid idea - What the NHS Doesn't mention is that there are many staff in other buildings around the hospital who are being forced to move from their building, and indeed the NHS altogether. The NHS is cost cutting beyond belief and is selling off departments to private companies. The treatment of the dedicated nursing staff has been appauling, made worse by the typical management culture feathering their nests as they are also transfered across. No proper consultation has been held, and some patients are unaware what will be happening to their care come a few months time. The nursing staff have been left completely in the dark and rumours then start to spread. The NHS should be ashamed of how it is not only treating its staff, but the most important people of all, the patients. The NHS has turned into a cost cutting, ruthless organisation for the nurses and doctors to work in - gone are the days where patients were the priority, sadly.”

“My sentiments exactly thingsrgrim and Malcom_Ex.

More housing will make things worse in terms of traffic volume and the only people who would live there would be hospital staff.”

“Who would want to live there?”

“Some of the land should be used as car parking space...........obviously the fat cat permit holders at GY hospital are totally blind to the car parking circus every week day between 1:30pm and 3pm.”