I attended accident and emergency with my partner recently. I drove to the A&E because the previous week we were told we would need to wait 11 hours for an ambulance. I arrived at the car park which was signed posted from the hospital at 5 pm. My partner was not seen in A&E until 1 am, Eight hours later.
Following that we returned to the car park to collect the car to go home to find out the car park was locked from 10 pm until 6 am. I asked about getting the car out and was towed. It would cost £100 to get somebody to unlock the car park for us to collect the car.
The previous week when I had drove to the same hospital with my partner to a A&E he was admitted and I could have been going to this car park on my own which is down a side street. We need to wait on a taxi at 1 am and I needed to return to the car park just after 6 am to collect the car.
When I looked at this car park again there were signs to say the car park was closed between 10 pm and 6 am, however when one is bringing their partner to A&E, how many people look for signs that the car park is not open all night and if I had noticed this was I supposed to come and get the car out at 10 pm and park elsewhere which may be very unsafe for me to do as a woman.
The nearest 24 hour car park to this particular hospital is 15 minutes walk away.
Am I being unreasonable to expect a large city centre hospital with an ANE department to have a 24 hour car park?
I am being unreasonable to expect a large city Centre hospital with an ANA department to have a 24 hour car park.