Parking at Pinderfields
Will be having our first baby at Pinders in the next week or so and have a few questions about parking. Feel a little in the dark about labour and delivery at Pinderfields as I’ve been given absolutely zero information from the midwife so any other useful info would also be appreciated!
- is there a drop off bay if my partner needs to get me in in a hurry (usually parking in the main car park can take us up to 15 mins!)?
- can my partner be reimbursed or given a reduced cost for parking whilst I’m in hospital?
- if there is a drop off bay, can this be used when we leave as well?
Thanks! X
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Yeah there's an emergency entrance to the labour ward at the back which is drop off! And no I don't think you can be reimbursed for parking. I gave birth there in May and no one said anything about it anyway 🤷♀️
There's a parking permit scheme so you still pay the 24 hour rate but you can come and go in that time rather than having to pay everytime you leave and come back - there's a form on the website from what I saw when I was looking.
thanks for this! Do you by any chance have a link to the form?
https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/getting-here/ if you scroll to the bottom under what concessions do you offer there's a link there to the forms
brill thank you so much! Have printed and popped in the hospital bag!
No problem at all! Stressful enough without worrying about parking so any little info we can share is helpful!
yes there’s a drop off emergency maternity just further down, we used it for leave too. you won’t get any help for parking the form above is only for the special wards like it tells you maternity isn’t included in there, however if all is good your either out the same day or the next day so would probably only need one day, i was in for 4 days and it was so expensive for my mum has she came everyday and a couple of the days she went out to go get me some food had already paid the £6.90 and then had to pay it again in the same day x
i had my baby in feb and when we asked if there was anything around parking they said they couldn’t help so god knows x
oh lovely.. one thing on their website and another in person 🤦♀️ I might just take a copy of this when the time comes and show them and ask for clarification and see what happens
we obviously asked because my mum was coming in and out over the space of 4 days and had to keep paying it but they said there wasn’t anything to us x
Oh that's rubbish - hospital parking is extortionate as it is let alone when you've just had a baby and need people around you for support!
definitely it’s shocking there, ours my mum had just left at 10 when visiting hours were over then a few hours later they had a bed for me on the labour ward so she had to come back again, don’t know why they can’t just let one person stay with you like other wards x
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