Written Question · S3W-10958 · Session 3
What proportion of NHS staff at hospitals where car parking charges have been introduced have been granted parking permits and on what basi…
The question
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of NHS staff at hospitals where car parking charges have been introduced have been granted parking permits and on what basis applications for such passes are judged.
The answer
The following table shows the proportion of staff with car parking permits at those NHSScotland hospital sites where car parking charges have been introduced.
The criteria used in the allocation of staff car parking permits has always been a matter to be determined locally and the revised guidance issued in January supports this approach but emphasises that such criteria should only be developed and agreed in discussion on a staff partnership basis. Each board's area partnership forum or equivalent is likely to be the best forum for such discussions, drawing upon local expertise of the relevant services, HR managers and occupational health staff as appropriate. The criteria should take account of good employment practice, that car use may be essential to the delivery of services and personal circumstances which may justify the use of a car to travel to work, including ill health and disability and significant continuing domestic or carer commitments.
The revised guidance also requires that the criteria used in determining who should be granted a permit is applied consistently and transparently and that staff are provided with clear, accessible and widely available information on site-specific procedures for the allocation and issue of car parking permits and any concessions available.
Proportion Of Staff Within Parking Permits
Board
| Hospital
| % Staff with Permits
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| Southern General
| 17
| Gartnavel General
| 29
| Victoria Infirmary
| 8
| Western Infirmary
| 13
| Yorkhill
| 12
NHS Lothian
| Western General
| 17.5
| Royal Infirmary
| 34
| Royal Hospital for Sick Children
| 5.5
| St John's
| 100¹
NHS Grampian
| Foresterhill
| 20²
The criteria used in the allocation of staff car parking permits has always been a matter to be determined locally and the revised guidance issued in January supports this approach but emphasises that such criteria should only be developed and agreed in discussion on a staff partnership basis. Each board's area partnership forum or equivalent is likely to be the best forum for such discussions, drawing upon local expertise of the relevant services, HR managers and occupational health staff as appropriate. The criteria should take account of good employment practice, that car use may be essential to the delivery of services and personal circumstances which may justify the use of a car to travel to work, including ill health and disability and significant continuing domestic or carer commitments.
The revised guidance also requires that the criteria used in determining who should be granted a permit is applied consistently and transparently and that staff are provided with clear, accessible and widely available information on site-specific procedures for the allocation and issue of car parking permits and any concessions available.
Proportion Of Staff Within Parking Permits
Board
| Hospital
| % Staff with Permits
Greater Glasgow and Clyde
| Southern General
| 17
| Gartnavel General
| 29
| Victoria Infirmary
| 8
| Western Infirmary
| 13
| Yorkhill
| 12
NHS Lothian
| Western General
| 17.5
| Royal Infirmary
| 34
| Royal Hospital for Sick Children
| 5.5
| St John's
| 100¹
NHS Grampian
| Foresterhill
| 20²
In the Official Report
No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-10958 by reference.