Don’t know if it’s getting worst but back when I first became disabled and the NHS we’re still trying to get me to recover from a stroke I had physiotherapy at a hydrotherapy pool in my down town hospital.
2 BB space outside the pool and one of the busiest roads in the city outside and though there were no restriction on the yellow lines outside parking there would have brought the city centre to a standstill and having consideration for other choose not to park on the lines not that I could even get out of the car without my door being take off.
On my 3rd attempt to get to the pool I gave up and rang them from outside the pool saying I’m cancelling all my physiotherapy at the pool because it was too stressful and that was that.
The problem is 100 year old hospitals in city centre locations with no room for parking though some of the hospitals here in Bristol have relocated to the outskirts and parking less of a problem the main hospital remain down town.
My doctor at the time said to me the way I explain my disability I should go to the stroke rehab places and give a lecture of some sorts but I told her at the time theres no way I could do that however I started getting stuff from the University of Oxford about doing trails on new treatment and helping future victims of stroke but guess where the trails we’re, yep in the down town hospital so I’d said I would love to help if it was at an out of town hospital but down town, forget it even with a Blue Badge.
That was 12 years ago and can’t imagine its got any better, in fact I know it hasn’t from dropping family members at that hospital, drop and go is about all you can do, if that sometimes, still that old saying of mine “every cloud” helps keeps folk off the NHS waiting list.?