Thousands of drivers caught a month by Dudley hospital parking cameras
The data has been prepared for a meeting of Dudley Council’s Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee
Russells Hall Hospital recorded more than 2,500 contraventions of parking regulations in just one month according to a new report.
The data has been prepared for a meeting of Dudley Council’s Health and Social Care Scrutiny Committee which will discuss parking strategy at a meeting on October 5.
Committee members will be told in July 2026 there were an estimated 34,612 users of the car park and rules were broken on 2,589 occasions.
The report, signed by Warren Grigg, group director of estates development and facilities management at Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Car parking at Russells Hall Hospital (RHH) remains an area of concern for patients, visitors and staff.
“Demand for parking on the RHH site can exceed capacity during weekday peak periods, generating operational challenges and a less favourable experience for our patients and visitors.”
The hospital provides 2,072 parking spaces, 509 are allocated for patients, 1,541 are dedicated to staff while 68 spaces are earmarked as ‘accessible’.
Despite the addition of 850 new spaces since 2010, the report says demand regularly outstrips supply between 10am and 4pm on weekdays.
The car park is run by contractor Mitie who installed automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) technology to speed up traffic flow by removing the need for parking barriers.
ANPR also led to an increase in the number of people being caught breaking the rules. In July 2026 1,588 penalty charges were issued.
While 15 percent of those were subject to an appeal and 17 percent were cancelled after motorists produced a valid blue badge which allows free parking for people with mobility restrictions, a total of 311 or 20 percent have neither been paid or appealed.
The Trust says it benchmarks charges against other health providers and it recognises opportunities to expand parking provision are limited but it is looking at a range of measures to improve accessibility to the hospital.