The hospital and university have officially agreed to provide safe, designated parking for our student nurses at Forth Valley Royal. This win belongs to every one of you who kept the pressure on until they finally listened. Keep your parking permits secure and reach out if you face any issues …
July 20, 2014
Final supporters
This is an issue which greatly affects student nurses and midwives in our area. The current situation is student nurses are not permitted to park anywhere on hospital grounds and/or the surrounding areas. Student nurses vehicles have been attacked by locals after parking in residential areas. Such attacks have included cars being "keyed" and had paint thrown on them, in conjunction with being subject to verbal abuse by these homeowners. This has widely resulted in fear, particularly for students travelling alone and working unsociable hours such as night shift (typically 7pm-7am) or late shifts (finishing at 9pm approximately). It is simply a wholly UNSAFE situation for students to be in. Consequently, students have been parking within hospital grounds.
Smart Parking is a private company which operates within the hospital grounds. Their parking charge notices (PCN's) are entirely unenforceable and have no affiliation with either the local authorities or NHS Forth Valley. However, they continue to send letters threatening legal action against anyone issued with a ticket. My personal experience with this company was diabolical; I was threatened that if I did not pay £800 by 5pm that evening, I would be pursued in court. This was in addition to harassing phone calls, constant threat of legal action and being contacted by a debt collector's service. It caused intolerable stress and anxiety. Unfortunately my experience is not an isolated incident and is one also experienced by fellow colleagues.
It is unacceptable that Student Nurses and Midwives should be faced with such harassment in order to complete a placement in training to be Staff Nurses; a role in which arguably the main driving factor is to care for others in the local community. It is not unfair to comment that this does in fact put them in a vulnerable, dangerous and stressful situation.
Please help local students to make a meaningful change to this predicament today by signing this petition. It is unfair that they should be subject to this behaviour in order to complete their training in a caring profession. Your support is greatly appreciated. On behalf of local student nurses and midwives, thank you for reading this petition.
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Reached 250 supporters
June 24, 2014
June 22, 2014
We just hit 100 signatures. Now I need you to copy the link and text it to three friends who work in local healthcare. We need to escalate the pressure on the University administration today.
June 21, 2014
The momentum behind this petition is undeniable and shows that our community will not tolerate this unsafe situation any longer. Post the link to your Facebook page and text three friends right now to keep this pressure on the decision makers. Email your local representative to demand they address these parking threats immediately.
Reached 100 supporters
June 20, 2014
6 Comments
Smart Parking are a bunch of crooks. How can they charge students for parking at their own place of work. Disgraceful.
This is absolute madness. These students are literally saving lives and they get abused for trying to park near their work? Sort it out.
Totally agree. These nurses have enough stress without worrying about their cars being vandalised or getting fake tickets in the mail.
My girlfriend is a nursing student and she is terrified to go to night shifts because of all this parking drama. It needs to be safe for them.
Just let them park at the hospital. Its not hard to see why this is putting people off the profession entirely.
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The hospital and university have officially agreed to provide safe, designated parking for our student nurses at Forth Valley Royal. This win belongs to every one of you who kept the pressure on until they finally listened. Keep your parking permits secure and reach out if you face any issues …
July 20, 2014
Final supporters
This is an issue which greatly affects student nurses and midwives in our area. The current situation is student nurses are not permitted to park anywhere on hospital grounds and/or the surrounding areas. Student nurses vehicles have been attacked by locals after parking in residential areas. Such attacks have included cars being "keyed" and had paint thrown on them, in conjunction with being subject to verbal abuse by these homeowners. This has widely resulted in fear, particularly for students travelling alone and working unsociable hours such as night shift (typically 7pm-7am) or late shifts (finishing at 9pm approximately). It is simply a wholly UNSAFE situation for students to be in. Consequently, students have been parking within hospital grounds.
Smart Parking is a private company which operates within the hospital grounds. Their parking charge notices (PCN's) are entirely unenforceable and have no affiliation with either the local authorities or NHS Forth Valley. However, they continue to send letters threatening legal action against anyone issued with a ticket. My personal experience with this company was diabolical; I was threatened that if I did not pay £800 by 5pm that evening, I would be pursued in court. This was in addition to harassing phone calls, constant threat of legal action and being contacted by a debt collector's service. It caused intolerable stress and anxiety. Unfortunately my experience is not an isolated incident and is one also experienced by fellow colleagues.
It is unacceptable that Student Nurses and Midwives should be faced with such harassment in order to complete a placement in training to be Staff Nurses; a role in which arguably the main driving factor is to care for others in the local community. It is not unfair to comment that this does in fact put them in a vulnerable, dangerous and stressful situation.
Please help local students to make a meaningful change to this predicament today by signing this petition. It is unfair that they should be subject to this behaviour in order to complete their training in a caring profession. Your support is greatly appreciated. On behalf of local student nurses and midwives, thank you for reading this petition.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
June 24, 2014
June 22, 2014
We just hit 100 signatures. Now I need you to copy the link and text it to three friends who work in local healthcare. We need to escalate the pressure on the University administration today.
June 21, 2014
The momentum behind this petition is undeniable and shows that our community will not tolerate this unsafe situation any longer. Post the link to your Facebook page and text three friends right now to keep this pressure on the decision makers. Email your local representative to demand they address these parking threats immediately.
Reached 100 supporters
June 20, 2014
6 Comments
I had my car keyed last month when I was working late. I was literally in tears walking back to it. stop letting this happen!
Smart Parking are a bunch of crooks. How can they charge students for parking at their own place of work. Disgraceful.
This is absolute madness. These students are literally saving lives and they get abused for trying to park near their work? Sort it out.
Totally agree. These nurses have enough stress without worrying about their cars being vandalised or getting fake tickets in the mail.
My girlfriend is a nursing student and she is terrified to go to night shifts because of all this parking drama. It needs to be safe for them.
Just let them park at the hospital. Its not hard to see why this is putting people off the profession entirely.
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I had my car keyed last month when I was working late. I was literally in tears walking back to it. stop letting this happen!