"Blue Badge spaces not available"

While appreciating parking at Inverclyde Royal Hospital is at a premium, I feel I must complain about disabled parking/blue badge areas at the hospital.

Yesterday my husband and I [both blue badge holders] arrived for an appointment. No priority spaces were available and we waited in the area for 25 minutes in the hope that someone would leave. During this time we ascertained that about 50% of the cars using the disabled spaces were not displaying blue badges.

Fortunately we had arrived early enough to deal with this problem but I had to literally dump my husband at the drop-off point [while double parked] and then locate a parking space. As I too am disabled and can only walk very short distances, this proved problematic and I am suffering the consequences today.

I appreciate you cannot eradicate the selfishness of some people who use these spaces wrongly, I wonder why there is no check on the car parking. I know not all disabilities are visible, but blue badges are issued for valid reasons and no-one should be parking there without one.

Please can you help? Thank you.