“They shouldn't have run Princess Royal into the ground so they could close it forcing people from the east of the city to travel to HRI and Castlehill when the services already existed on a perfectly situated site with ample parking. Sadly the former hospital is in limbo awaiting it's demolition planned by the big suits that know best.”

“I had to laugh at the comment some people are to ill to take public transport so they have to drive??? Really if you are that ill, you should not be driving in the first place. Giving free parking wont solve the problem, it will be exactly the same, if not worse. It is the same for staff aswell as patients, frustrating for both us. As Red Dog says above, its our health that matters not parking spaces, they have got plans to create more so watch this space. I say, take a bus, bike or taxi lol”

“If you have to go to hospital for a one off screening like X Rays or Bowel screening like i had to, I think you should look at the taxi option, I had to go to Beverley Westwood Hospital for an interview about the next step concerning my health, I did not want any stress about parking or taking a bus, So i got a taxi £15, Which did not phase me because it was my health that mattered,Four weeks later i had to go to Castle Hill Hospital for a Cancer screening, I got a taxi again £7, I left feeling calm and in a good mood, While i was there i noticed some people in stressed out states shouting that they could not find a parking space,And please no replies saying 'I cannot afford that', Its our health we are talking about.”

“Well done Colin, you have finally got someone to agree with you.”

“Many visits to hospital have to be made by car by people often too ill or infirm to use public transport. The alternative to relatives or friends taking them is to use the Patient Transport Service which obviously costs the NHS money and frankly is not very user friendly unless people are able to both wait and sit on a bus for a long time.

Once at the hospitals, even if you can find a space, its often still a long walk to your destination and again with infirm or elderly patients that is difficult. A drop-off point will be ok for some but still means abandoning your relative whilst the vehicle is moved to a more permanent space which is often distressing for them.

Given that private vehicles are probably always going to be used to transport quite ill people, (most people, for example, will not be prepared to wait more than two hours for an ambulance if their relative is in pain) then the reliance on large areas of cheap, ill-maintained (certainly at HRI, the problem at CH is more a simple lack of spaces) surface car parking is very short-term thinking.

Take a look at any shopping centre in Hull city centre, analogous to HRI's position, they all have multi-storey parking immediately adjacent to your destination, escalators, travelators and lifts to make it all easier. Spending NHS money on multi-storey car parks might seem wasteful but when the hospitals are so reliant on quite ill people getting themselves to hospital appointments it doesn't seem so unreasonable. It would also release large amounts of land, certainly near HRI, for more productive use. I would much rather pay a parking fee knowing it was contributing to paying for a clean, safe and accessible multi-storey than some pot-hole strewn, graveled piece of waste ground half a mile from the hospital entrance.”