Do nurses, doctors and other healthcare staff, have to pay for hospital parking where they work in your country?

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1. Parking charges at all but two Scottish hospitals were abolished in 2008 and the other two had their parking charges suspended in 2020 and the government announced in 2021 that they intend to purchase those two car parks in order to make parking free there.

2. It depends on the hospital administration. For example, the main hospital of Pisa makes doctors pay for parking, but Rome’s Policlinico (IIRC) doesn’t.

   Sometimes it’s because the hospital is too close to an idensely-inhabited area (so they are at risk of people try to steal spots and cause disruptions), sometimes because the hospital’s proprety is too small to have its own parking.

3. The nurses I know don’t drive, they often can’t afford to have a car. Besides public transportation is free for them.

   I don’t know whether they have to pay on the countryside, hospitals have staff parking in my experience, but I don’t recall seeing specifically staff parking places in hospitals in the capital, so there they might need to park on the street and pay for that.

4. Yes, they do. Because your way to get to work is your private business. You often get support, though, like a cheaper public transport ticket or a cheaper parking lot, but you still have to pay for all of that.

5. If you work in a public hospital there will probably be a huge car park and you probably will come early so there will be a spot for you free of charge. If you work in a private hospital things might be different. Most of them have parking but they are small so they are reserved mostly for surgeons, high tier administration and residents. If people can’t find a spot they usually park a few streets away to avoid paid car parks. I am an intern right now so they don’t reserve a spot for me but I usually park like 500m away from the hospital to avoid paid car parks. They almost always charge hourly here and I couldn’t afford it.