Bosses fail to deliver on parking promises
Dear Editor Is there nothing that the management of Forth Valley NHS can do right?
Having demolished a perfectly good hospital in Stirling, which was less than 30 years old, they built a new one on a cold hilltop at remote Larbert, which, despite `promises’ to the contrary, has totally inadequate parking for day patients, staff and visitors.
Now, predictably, they have done it again. They never learn. On the site of the former Stirling hospital they have built a new GP and minor injuries centre at great cost and which, at a public design and consultation session which I attended, they categorically promised would have more than enough parking spaces for everyone. Where? They certainly are not at or near the medical centre. I did not believe them then, and now I have been proved right.
After just one week of being open, I went to the centre to see a doctor. Despite there being less than two dozen patients from four practices waiting to see any doctor, both the car park and the neighbouring streets were choc-a-bloc with cars. Whose were they and where are the promised parking spaces?
Patients like myself who turned up had to drive round and round the car park and neighbouring streets until someone left. Then there was a mad rush for their space. Is this our 21st century health service? Many of us are not as fit as we once were.
Who are the incompetent people who run the health board? Who elected them, and how can we replace them with accredited professional managers?
And what is going to happen when the annual winter epidemics arrive?
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