Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson said his "anger is boiling over" with his own staff after a pledge he made to stop district nurses being hit with parking tickets while seeing patients wasn't acted on.
In September last year, the ECHO revealed that nurses were being forced to ask the relatives of patients they were treating to keep watch and stop them getting parking tickets after a scheme for NHS staff was withdrawn in the city.
Nurses were trying to avoid going into certain parts of the city centre because they couldn't afford to keep paying hefty fines.
But shortly after we reported the issue, Mayor Anderson stepped in and apologised for the mix-up, saying he had not been made aware that the free parking scheme had been scrapped.
He said on Twitter he would be reinstating the scheme 'immediately.'
But the ECHO was contacted by a nurse this week who said that the scheme had still not been reinstated - and that nurses were still facing the choice between seeing patients and being given fines.
We reported this to Mayor Anderson - who said he was furious to hear that his actions had not been acted on by his council officers.
He said: "My anger is boiling over on this now.
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"I instructed council officers to solve this problem - and I can only apologise that it hasn't been sorted.
"I'm so angry that the officers haven't acted on what I told them to - this will change."
The council initially said that the free parking scheme had only been intended to be used for emergencies and that it was withdrawn when they felt this wasn't being stuck to.
But Mayor Anderson added: "They are not using it to go shopping - they are seeing patients."
Nurses will be hoping the Mayor's demands are now acted on - so they can avoid the stressful situations they have described.
A senior community nurse, who oversees a number of staff working in the city centre said his teams were unaware the scheme was being withdrawn, and said the decision is having major impacts on staff and patients.
He said: "I have now got nurses that don't want to go in certain parts of the city centre because they can't afford to pay fines - so they are parking further away and working in.
"This is having a massive impact on the health of people in the city, health is being compromised.
"We now have nurses running in and out of houses and hoping they don't get tickets.
"One nurse recently had to ask the relative of a patient to keep an eye out at the front door, because they couldn't afford to pay another parking ticket."
