更现实的收费制度是最好的解决方案(英文)
Realistic charging -the best cure
众多公众、媒体和政府眼下都在关注医院的停车收费问题,由于媒体指责经营者和NHS trusts,医院的停车收费问题从未像今天这样激起众怒,作者谈了他的看法。
首先,我们应该想一想为什么停车收费被引进到医院。医院停车场以往总是停满了工作人员和通勤者的车辆,这些人占了医院停车免费的便宜,而病人和访客为寻找停车位只能在医院周围徘徊。由于疏于管理,园区变得拥挤混乱,很难向病人提供良好的服务,病人经常会预约迟到,更严重的是遇到紧急情况无法停车。
更现实的收费制度,被看作是改善这些问题和提高停车服务的有效手段。这就是在英格兰、威尔士和苏格兰有那么多的NHS Trusts医院决定引入收费和交通管理的原因。
正文:
With so much public, media and Government attention currently
focused on hospital parking charges, it is timely to look at this
whole issue.
Firstly, perhaps we should remind ourselves why parking charges
were introduced to hospital sites in the first place. Too many hospital
car parks in the past were filled with hospital staff and/or commuters
taking advantage of free hospital parking, leaving patients and
visitors driving round, struggling to find places. Other sites were
so congested and chaotic due to lax management that they failed
to provide an adequate service and patients were often late for
appointments or, more seriously, unable to park in an emergency.
More realistic charging regimes were seen as the way to cure these
problems and improve the service on offer. This is why somany NHS
Trusts in England,Wales and Scotland decided to introduce charging
and traffic management and why CP Plus, as a car park management
specialist with long and wide-ranging experience of the NHS sector,
provides the services required.
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