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Parking changes at King's Mill Hospital



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Published Date: 02 September 2008
Email Rachel Parry

NEW car parking arrangements for patients and visitors at King's Mill Hospital will be introduced on Thursday.
It comes as the existing main entrance next to Accident and Emergency closes as part of the hospital's £320m redevelopment.

The adjacent car park will also close to make way for construction work.

Bosses say motorists should use the car park at the new main entrance in front of the King's Treatment Centre (KTC), which can be accessed via the Mansfield Road entrance, next to the Dukeries Centre.

Meanwhile, the majority of outpatient clinics have re-located to the KTC –– although the locations of genitourinary medicine (GUM) and oncology/Welcome Treatment Centre remain unchanged.

Clinics previously numbered seven and eight at the rear of the site have been re-numbered clinic 12. Clinic 12 is also at the rear of the site and its outpatients should use car park six, located past the Millbrook Mental Health Unit.

From today, children's clinics will move to clinic 11 –– accessed via entrance five –– and parents should also use car park six.

All other outpatients are advised to use the main entrance car park.
Hospital chiefs say folk visiting inpatients should use car park four and enter via entrance four, with both accessed from via Wilmore Way.

Said John Williams –– director of corporate development at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs King's Mill –– said: "Car parking staff will help direct patients and visitors to the correct car parks and ensure things run as smoothly as possible."

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  • Last Updated: 02 September 2008 2:58 PM
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zfish,

isle of man/nottingham 03/09/2008 19:24:29
What a joke!! you have to pay to see the sick!! nobody knows what they are doing in the hospital its pure Chaos & under staffed!! what if you had to go to A&E "oh sod the pain im in il just go and get a parking ticket!!! JOKE...!!!
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Cheryl M,

04/09/2008 09:31:41
Don't you think it's bad enough to be ill or have to visit someome who is ill in hospital? I'm so glad I do not have a car as public transport these days is safer and cheaper. I think this is a direct attack on people who are sick. Like the above person says, if you go to A&E your first priority would be to get inside and get treated, not get a parking ticket. Then if you don't your going to get yet another one of these stupid community fines that Mansfield seems to be obsessed with. If the money went towards CLEANING these dumps then I would not have as much of a problem with it, but while your paying to park your car, someone is DYING from MRSA. Now thats the biggest JOKE.
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Bermuda Viper,

04/09/2008 09:57:53
After spending over £30 on parking whilst my wife was in hospital having our baby I think it's great value for money. Charging people who have no choice because they are visiting patients and fining them if they don't put on a ticket. Complete joke, people have much more on their minds when visiting the sick than trying to find a parking meter that's in operation.
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infowars.com,

04/09/2008 11:12:32
"I think this is a direct attack on people who are sick"

So the motorists are loving life then eh? This is an indiscriminate attck on THE PEOPLE. Just like paying for your "carbon footprint"

Watch 'Endgame' on google video, for gods sake learn something!
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James Bowlen,

Rainworth 05/09/2008 08:07:29
To get to the Mill I have to get two buses and then walk at either end.
I have some walking problems and find getting on the buses very difficult.
If I drive in I have to estimate how long I am going to be at the Hospital so I can put a ticket on my car - and, after being ticketed for overstaying my ticket, I habitually exceed the time I actually stay and so the Hospital make even more profit from me.

If the hospital has to recoup it funding of the new build from my car park fee - can they please put an exit system into place like they do at Queens at Nottingham or, better still, follow the Scottish model and make no charge whatsoever.
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zfish,

06/09/2008 02:58:56
I agree with every comment made, it’s about time they listened to the people instead of charging the people! I think they need to prioritize on the sick/poorly, instead of paying for the Monstrosity of the new building!

I have a big Gripe with that hospital, as its took 2 yrs for them to find out someone close to me was diagnosed with cancer!! Not only that patients come out with MRSA!! or even worse!
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Bullfarm Bluesman,

Sick Farm. 06/09/2008 08:38:45
It's a good job we don't pay for some of our health care because most of us would be dead by now.
Common sense should prevail with A&E but for routine visits....get the bus!
God Bless the USA Health Care Program (sic).
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nrwebster,

mansfield 08/09/2008 00:30:21
i agree with zfish 100%.my auntie went in hospital to have a kidney stone removed and died as a result of c.diff. it wouldn't be so bad to charge for parking if the money was actually used to clean kings mill up but it isn't where does the money go? ill tell u in the fat cats pockets that don't give a damn about anyone but them selves.
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