NHS Community Workers are to be given permits enabling them to park on yellow lines when attending patients.
Cornwall Council has already put a Healthcare permit parking scheme in place to help carers. Similarly, NHS Clinical Community Workers will be issued with a time clock and will be able to park for up to two hours on single or double yellow lines.
Up to 800 permits will be issued and those eligible have already been identified by the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and invited to apply.
Workers using the permits will still be expected to park safely and not cause an obstruction, says the Council, and parking still isn’t allowed in loading bays, at bus stops, or on zig zag lines outside schools and hospitals. ?
Geoff Brown, Cornwall Council’s portfolio holder for transport, said:?“We said that we wanted to put in place a scheme for NHS clinical community workers to be able to park close to the homes of their patients and we’re now able to make good on that commitment. It can be an issue for them to find a parking space close to the home of a resident they are visiting to deliver health care. This scheme means that they can apply for a permit which will let them park on street for a limited time, even where there are single or double yellow lines.”
Phil Confue, Cornwall Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust’s chief executive, said: “The extension of Cornwall Council’s permit parking scheme, will mean clinicians working in the community will be able to park more easily, allowing them to spend more time with their patients.”