Parking fees for medics will be scrapped at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary to help NHS staff during the Coronavirus pandemic. A dedicated testing centre has been set up at the hospital, to test for the potentially deadly virus.
Under new rules introduced by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde in the wake of the outbreak, medics will be allowed to use any parking space except those reserved for emergency vehicles or disabled parking.
The hospital is locked into a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) arrangement, which sees staff paying up to £20 a day to leave their vehicles in the multi-storey car park.Charging for parking at NHS car parks in Scotland was scrapped in 2008 but car parks at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and