{"id":128005,"date":"2025-09-10T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128005\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:55:08","slug":"worcestershire-healthcare-workers-could-get-street-parking-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/128005\/","title":{"rendered":"Worcestershire healthcare workers could get street parking permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray said she had heard of workers getting fines while attending patients and having to walk long distances with heavy equipment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Healthcare workers should not be punished for delivering care in our communities,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I hope councillors across the chamber will back this motion on Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray said more than 440 residents had signed a petition backing the scheme, with nurses and healthcare staff describing the daily struggle of parking while delivering essential care in the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The motion, which will be proposed by county councillor Mel Allcott, stated the city council &#8220;and other district councils that manage local parking enforcement on behalf of the county council have systems capable of issuing healthcare permits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The councillors said an &#8220;essential attendance&#8221; permit scheme available to residents with care needs was &#8220;not designed for NHS staff providing mobile care and is not fit for urgent or time-critical healthcare visits&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Residents often rely on others to obtain these permits on their behalf, and the scheme does not support emergency responses or end-of-life care at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The absence of a healthcare permit scheme hinders healthcare delivery and places unnecessary stress and financial burden on key NHS staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murray said she had heard of workers getting fines while attending patients and having to walk long distances&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-128005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}