Advertisement Feature
HB Interview: Perfect parking with Debt Recovery Plus Health Business (HB) talks to Stewart Clure (SC), managing director of Debt Recovery Plus, the leading provider of debt recovery services for the private parking sector in the country Parking was an area that perhaps unexpectedly made headlines as the coronavirus pandemic took hold over the UK. The government announced that it will cover the costs of providing free car parking to NHS staff working in hospitals in England, with areas such as London and Newcastle leading the way in ensuring that key workers and other hospital staff could park at, or as near to, work as possible without the stress of queueing and paying. However, like all industries, the return to parking norm is upon us, or at least soon will be. In light of this, we spoke to Stewart Clure, managing director of Debt Recovery Plus, which provides debt recovery and back office solutions to 90 per cent of the industry, handling over 120,000 unpaid parking charges each month, about the current situation and other issues affecting the sector.
64
HB: It would be unwise to begin without first addressing coronavirus. With hospitals more overwhelmed than ever before, what impact has the pandemic had on NHS parking?
services during Covid-19. We have seen operators across the board Like mo st work alongside things, p landowners to a r k i n charges g make sure that conside are not everyone who r the top ed to be on needs access to parking is catered list whe of everyone’s for during this n it com es to SC: We have all experienced period. We have paying bills unprecedented times during the still seen some last few weeks and we have seen parking abuse in how parking enforcement operators, key areas of NHS sites, the BPA, IPC and NHS trusts have come which can often lead to together to ensure that all NHS sites are devastating consequences if reviewed for free parking in some areas. they are not managed effectively which is why There has of course been a light shone on the some sites have had to maintain some sort of NHS, NHS staff and the general well-being of consistent, robust enforcement to make sure anyone associated with carrying out support that the right people do have sufficient access
BUSINESS INFORMATION FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS | www.healthbusinessuk.net
