Improve Parking & Access at the JR and Churchill Hospitals

Nicqui Rowlands

Parking should be available to any patient going to the hospitals, Not everone can use park n ride to park.

Geoff Carter

As a frequent hospital user access by car is important.

David Mills

Suggesting patients arrive early to park is akin to Marie- Antoinette’s advice to the starving poor of France, “Let them eat cake!” It does not match the problem it faces and speaks to a cynical and bureaucratic indifference to real suffering. This is especially the case in relation to the availability of blue badge parking spaces in the West Wing the supply of which does not meet demand. Sometimes this insufficiency is exacerbated by the use of some of these spaces for bins.

Jennifer Ra

It takes so long to find a parking place you have to be at the hospital at least 45 minutes before your appointment to hopefully be able to park and get to your appointment on time

D Holt

A multi storey car park enables staff to park at their workplace, only fair that people working long hours are at least guaranteed the most direct travel times home

Kathleen Buckland

It is impossible to park at the JR most of the time and taking a very confused patient is so difficult because he cannot manage to find his way in without help so cannot just be dropped off

Steven Uttley

I have had some horrendous experiences parking including having to break off a chemotherapy session at the Churchill to move my car from a private space because I couldn't park at the Churchill. I literally had to run through the streets for half a mile with a disconnected canula in my arm to retrieve my vehicle as my parking time ran out. Do the council give a damn. No they don't. They care only about people who live in Oxford.

Mark Charnock

For patients and their relatives, so often anxious and elderly, or their friends coming to visit to encounter the shambolic parking, which can involve entering a cul de sac in a designated parking area is a shameful aspect of care which may be free at the point of delivery but certainly is not free to that point.

Irene Irvine

When taking my husband for chemo,i have to get to the churchill at least 2 hours early in order to park. He is not supposed to mix with people due to infection issues and he also is not well enough to stand at a bus stop and then spend an hour on a bus. It is an appaling situation to put sick people in

Linda Cole

Because the walk from the nearest available disabled parking spot at the Churchill to my appointment was enough to make me so unwell I needed to be transferred to the JR when I was already unwell last winter. This must happen to many others too,

Wendy Court

Having day treatment, where I was told, I must not go on a bus or in a taxi home, in case I became seriously ill on the way home. My poor husband at 9.30 am couldn't find parking for half an hour, of course we need more spaces, as Oxfordshire continues to build and expand to twice its size rapidly. Not enough schools, G.Ps , hospital space, we are clearly not looking at basic needs for such a ,massive expansion of population.

Helen Carter

Parking at the JR and Churchill hospitals causes anxiety due those who are already anxious about their appointments - especially if life threatening illnesses or life limiting illnesses are involved. I can get a bus but have taken several people to each of the hospitals who could not use a bus.

Andrew Burbage

It is so difficult and stressful to park at these hospitals. It makes a difficult time much worse. Why can't they build a multi storey as they have at other hospitals I have visited.

Jennifer G Bell

Trying to find a parking space adds a whole new level of stress when you're disabled or unwell and already stressed about an appointment or an operation. It must be possible to do something about this and make life easier for staff, patients and visitors.

Susan Franklin

people come from all over the country to our hospitals. Staff have to travel from a wide area and should absolutely be given parking on site. As we all know travel around the city is increasingly difficult,expensive and a lengthy undertaking, thanks to the increasingly punitative plans from our head in the clouds council.

Kate Nelson

I experienced difficulties parking when I used to take my late father to a hospital appointment - it needed a 2 person team so that one of us could be dropped to support him (he had mobility and memory difficulties) and the other circled the car park looking for a space. As a JR staff member I also experience frustration with parking. I am currently fighting a £100 parking fine for what appears to be a failure within the ANPR enforced parking permit system.

Kevin Langley

I have no easy option for getting to JR by public transport.

Jonathan Madden

Multi storey car parking at the JR would be a great benefit to Oxford and surrounding area.

Malcolm Hester

If Bicester Village and many train stations can build prefabricated multi-storey car parks very cheaply and quickly why on earth can’t one be built at each hospital. The cost to the NHS of missed appointments due to patients driving round for hours looking for a space must be significant. Sort it out please and stop penalising the motorists at every opportunity.

Joy Hooley

Have had to abandon appt at JR before now, due to lack of parking spaces. My partner is disabled and even those spaces were full.