"Car parking at RAH"

Sadly, following the excellent care opinion I gave the Dermatology Department here, I feel I need to make comment regarding the car park facilities and the hill from the car park at the RAH in Paisley.

Firstly, we have to drive through the barrier at a certain time in the morning, so that the car park personnel can keep tabs on the numbers. Unfortunately, they seem to deem it appropriate to generally chit chat about random stuff and do not do what they are supposed to do - keep tabs on the car park. As a disabled driver, I require the spaces near the top, but often there are cars parked here that do not have a blue badge. Now it may be possible it is a night shift worker running late, or that someone has forgotten to put their badge out, but this just shows the car park personnel are not doing their jobs.

Now if you are lucky to get a blue badge space, that's great. But if not you may have to park further down the hill. This is an issue straight away. I am not like many of the drivers here that park on the areas they are not supposed to, and I will park in a space. I then have to lug myself up the hill, which is extremely treacherous in frosty, snowy, wet, or windy weather. It puts added strain on a time that is already stressful enough. Funnily enough, go to the QEUH in Govan where it is a flat walk to and from the hospital, and you can ask for a shuttle to take you. I don't see why something similar cannot be arranged here.

The hospital is the most unappealing, unwelcoming building I have come across. The Emergency Department needs to be expanded to cope with the influx of patients I have seen on many occasions. I counted 8 ambulances outside there one day and can only  imagine how busy the department would be. That is not including the walks ins.

Come on, GGC Health Board, please get your thinking caps on, redeploy a manager or two, and get something done with the above issues. It doesn't need to be QEUH standard (mind you even that was a flop), but a lot better would be something.