Parking solution can be found

Sir, - Your correspondent Alfred Small (June 17) asks where the funding can be found to tackle the issue of increasing car parking charges at Ninewells Hospital.

Mr Small should be directing that question to the Scottish Government ministers who made the promise of abolishing car parking charges at all hospitals across Scotland, then reneged on that promise so far as Ninewells was concerned.

The PFI parking contract at Ninewells was in the public domain at the time the parking charges promise was made.

Both Mr Small and Alan Provan are quick to criticise my call to make good that promise at Ninewells but they offer no alternative solution as to how to tackle the everincreasing hospital parking charges facing outpatients, NHS staff and hospital visitors.

There is additionally a significant vehicle capacity issue at the Ninewells Hospital site that needs urgently addressed.

I have, therefore, written to Shona Robison MSP, cabinet secretary for health and sport, and Lesley McLay, chief executive of NHS Tayside, calling for discussions with local elected representatives at all levels, to look at ways to improve the parking situation on the Ninewells Hospital site.

Councillor Fraser Macpherson. Councillor for the West End, Dundee City Council, City Chambers, Dundee.