Ticketless arrivals
No barrier queues at the busiest entrance in town. Drive in, be seen, pay on exit — by plate, with no ticket to lose.
Hospitals
Fair access, zero admin.
Nobody chooses to visit a hospital. Parka's ticketless ANPR parking makes arrival the easy part: patients and visitors drive straight in, staff permits live on the plate, payment happens on exit, and estates teams get live occupancy data instead of complaints.
Visitor spaces
46
Staff permits
1,240
Avg stay
1h 12m
ticketless, live
What we help you solve
Patients first, staff sorted, estates in control.
Plate-linked permits
Staff, clinical on-call, and concession lists managed digitally, enforced automatically, impossible to lend around.
Live estate data
Occupancy by car park and hour, staff versus visitor mix, and abuse patterns — evidence for every estates decision.
The estates guide
How ticketless ANPR parking works on a healthcare estate.
Compassionate by default
Hospital visitors are often stressed, late, and unfamiliar with the site. Ticketless ANPR removes every friction point: no barrier queue on arrival, no ticket to validate, no pay-and-display decision about how long an appointment might run. Drivers simply pay for the time they actually used, on exit, by plate.
Generous grace periods, drop-off zones, and concession handling for eligible patient groups are configured centrally — so policy is applied kindly and consistently, and wrongful charges to genuine visitors simply stop happening.
Staff parking without the permit office
Physical permits mean printing, posting, windscreen checks, and a steady stream of disputes. Parka ties staff permits to number plates: HR-fed lists, shift-aware rules, and automatic enforcement — with clinical on-call and emergency exemptions handled properly.
The estates team sees exactly how staff allocation is used, which car parks fill first, and where commuter abuse is eating patient capacity.
Protect patient capacity from commuter abuse
Hospitals near stations and town centres are magnets for all-day parkers who never enter the building. Time-stamped plate data separates genuine patients and visitors from abusers, with photographic evidence supporting whatever management action your policy prescribes.
The result is measurable: more free spaces at clinic hours, shorter search times, and fewer missed appointments blamed on parking.
Built for public-sector scrutiny
Parka is ISO 27001 certified and GDPR-first — plate data is processed for parking only, retained to policy, and every access is logged. Reporting supports the transparency healthcare estates need, from board packs to FOI responses.
The platform serves UK trusts and Irish healthcare estates alike, with no minimum or maximum site size across multi-car-park campuses.
Common questions
How does ticketless hospital parking work?
ANPR cameras record each plate on entry and exit. Visitors pay for exactly the time used — at a kiosk, by card, or by phone — before leaving or shortly after. No tickets, no barriers, no lost-ticket queues at the exit.
How are patient concessions and blue badges handled?
Eligible groups — blue badge holders, regular-treatment patients, and any concession your policy defines — are added to exemption lists, applied automatically by plate. Kind policy, consistently enforced.
Can staff parking be enforced without checking windscreens?
Yes. Staff permits live on the number plate and are checked automatically on every entry. Shift patterns, on-call lists, and department allocations are all supported, and no one walks the car park with a clipboard.
What stops commuters using hospital car parks?
Every visit is time-stamped. Plates with all-day patterns and no matching payment or permit are flagged with photo evidence, so commuter abuse can be managed while genuine visitors are untouched.
Does this cope with multiple car parks on one campus?
Yes — every car park, barrier, and camera reports into one dashboard, with per-site rules and one estate-wide view of occupancy, revenue, and abuse patterns.
Talk to Parka
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Data, revenue, and compliance on one platform
Proven since 2016, no limit on site size
ISO 27001 certified, GDPR first