{"id":572103,"date":"2025-11-15T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572103\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:38:15","slug":"royal-victoria-hospital-ni-health-trust-pauses-staff-parking-applications-after-significant-risks-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572103\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Victoria Hospital: NI health trust pauses staff parking applications after \u2018significant risks\u2019 identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Health chief cites \u2018genuine concerns\u2019 in memo to workers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Motorists queue up for a parking space at the RVH car park. Pic: Peter Morrison\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/71cd2193-eb52-4f9d-9f3c-b6e151b9b072.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Motorists queue up for a parking space at the RVH car park. Pic: Peter Morrison<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A Northern Ireland health trust has paused a staff parking application process after it identified \u201csignificant risks\u201d associated with the plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">More than 4,000 staff at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/tag\/royal-victoria-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Victoria Hospital<\/a> in Belfast had applied for around 1,500 permits to allow them to park on site at the hospital\u2019s car park when new legislation granting free parking for staff and patients is introduced next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health chief cites \u2018genuine concerns\u2019 in memo to workers Motorists queue up for a parking space at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[34912,105,17037,4348,1300,211,15288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-572103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-department-of-health","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-trusts","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-liam-tunney","13":"tag-nhs","14":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115553993858381769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}