MIDWEEK'S campaign to secure more hospital parking was given a massive boost this week as health chiefs vowed to look at ways of improving car parking at Wycombe Hospital.

Hundreds of readers wrote, emailed and telephoned us and hospital bosses after we highlighted parking problems at the Queen Alexandra Road site with our highly successful Cure It Now campaign.

Reporter Victoria Birch handed over a mailbag full of petition forms to general services manager Miriam Springell on Friday to highlight how many hospital visitors and patients were fed up with the lack of spaces.

A spokesman for the hospital said: "We have been in support of the campaign which has raised a number of important issues surrounding parking, not only at Wycombe but hospitals across the county which are experiencing similar problems.

"We continue to do all we can to ensure we provide good parking for patients and visitors to the hospital and will certainly look at any initiatives which can improve parking at the hospital."

Although the campaign has now ended, Midweek is still being sent emails and petition forms as people are still concerned that securing a place is almost impossible at many times of the day and pensioners, pregnant women and seriously ill patients said it has become a huge dilemma for them.

Asia Hussain, 24, of Jubilee Road, High Wycombe, contacted us to say that she was in labour when she was asked to move her car from one of the maternity bays.

She said: "I could hardly get out of bed let alone move the car.

"I had a drip in so I wasn't able to get up and move it and my husband couldn't drive.

"I had to get my husband to phone my sister and it was lucky she was available otherwise I would have had to pay a £35 fine.

"She got to the hospital and she had to take the car home as there were no spaces anywhere.

"I stayed in hospital for a day but then I had to arrange for my brother to pick me up. It was just a nightmare worrying about parking when you are about to give birth. The sooner this problem is sorted the better."