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Car parking update: Message from David Carruthers, Acting Chief Executive – option to use New Square multi-storey car park for temporary overspill

September 30, 2020

Message from David Carruthers, Acting Chief Executive:

I recognise the issues there have been with car parking as the new multi-storey car parks are being built at the City and Sandwell Hospital sites. This has meant significant disruption for people arriving to site and I am sorry for the problems this has caused and if you have been late starting your shift or clinics as a result. As I described in my message on Friday, the car parking is necessarily reduced for the period of time before the new car parks open (summer 2021).

In order to address the problems, at Sandwell we are:

  • Offering the multi-storey car park at New Square to people who are struggling to find a car parking space as they arrive. This doesn’t mean your parking pass on site will be removed but for one month we would like to offer you this option to park at New Square. It is likely to save you time in looking for a space and to avoid issues that come with parking in the surrounding streets. (This is likely to be those arriving on site after 8.30am and leaving up to 6pm. You can use your pass at other times to access the site car parks depending on your shift work). To take up this option you must contact the car park admin office – swbh.carparkidadminoffice@nhs.net or ext. 6424 with your car make, model and registration number. This will ensure you don’t get a fine at New Square – we have no control of the number plate recognition there.
  • Moving more non-clinical staff to New Square. You will have been notified if you are affected. I appreciate that this is not popular. The New Square car park is approx. a 10 – 15 minute walk. The multi-storey car park is easy to access with good lighting and CCTV, and there are regular security patrols by the New Square security. Our security team have a stock of keyring torch alarms if anyone would like one for personal security.
  • The introduction of a “late” car park at Sandwell. If you arrive after 11.30am you can use the car park at the rear of Trinity House (accessed by turning left in front of the mobile scanning unit from the main car park entrance). This will help with occasions when you work a late shift and need to leave late.
  • Creation of more staff spaces on the Little Lane car park to be used by the ED colleagues.
  • Provision of emergency car park spaces for clinicians on call who need to travel cross-site for emergency patient care. This must be used appropriately in emergency situations only. The spaces are in the Sandwell “late” car park facility.

Below is a Google map image showing the shortest route (10 mins) from the New Square multi-storey car park to Sandwell Hospital marked with the blue dotted line and alternative routes marked in grey (12 mins).

You can see the route in detail by using the following link: https://goo.gl/maps/oMnP7oV4wdex6Ym78

At City we are:

  • Relocating some of the unused patient transport vehicles to create more space near the estates building/behind Anne Gibson
  • Helping you to find parking areas that usually have spaces available – these are highlighted on map below in the link below.
  • Keeping the “late” car park available by the Old Management Block
  • Keeping the emergency clinical spaces outside maternity.

You can see a map of the additional spaces at City on Connect by clicking here.

I know that many of you are using alternative modes of transport to get to work and all of this is helping. If you have other thoughts on ways to get to work that don’t require a parking space  or additional support that we could provide please get in touch. We are always open to ideas and suggestions.