- Target:
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Region:
- United Kingdom
- Website:
- www.cftrust.org.uk
The paediatric (children’s) hospital services will be transferring in stages over the next few years from St James Hospital in Leeds across to the Leeds General Infirmary which is based in central Leeds.
The city centre location will mean that parking will be extremely limited.
Parents/carers currently have good parking and access at the current hospital site, but so far no dedicated parking provision at the new site has been agreed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
One example of a service which will be affected by the move is young patients who have Cystic Fibrosis (CF). CF is a long term condition which affects primarily the lungs and digestive system making it hard to breathe and digest food.
This group of patients will typically visit the Regional CF Unit every 6-8 weeks for outpatient’s appointment and have frequent inpatient stays as often as every 3 months.
Therefore, parking accessibility and cost are extremely important to the parents /carers of these children who travel from across the region to access specialist care.
Ideally this would include concessionary parking, which is accessible and close by to the CF Unit to combat the expense of travel.
The Hospital Trust should also ensure that there is adequate parking provision and agree a fair level of designated spaces to be set aside for parents/carers.
We, the undersigned wish to express our concerns regarding the lack of ageed parking provision for parents/carers of children with Cystic Fibrosis (CF) and other paediatric long term conditions at Leeds General Infirmary Hospital.
Car parking at this NHS hospital site is very limited and will particularly affect those whose children have CF and other serious long term conditions and who require frequent hospital treatment.
We therefore ask that Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust ensure that a fair and adequate level of designated, concessionary parking provision is made available for the parents/carers of this cohort of patients.
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The Parking Campaign for CF patients at Leeds General Infirmary petition to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was written by Lynsey Morton and is in the category Miscellaneous at GoPetition.