Parking at Royal Bolton Hospital is set to increase this week.
New prices for public parking at will be introduced from Wednesday 8 April.
Hospital bosses say that only small increases will only take effect on some of the tariffs that are available to" help manage increasing costs for maintaining the car parks and roads across the hospital site".
Free car parking will remain for blue badge holders, cancer patients, relatives of end-of-life patients, parents/carers of children admitted overnight and relatives of critically ill patients who have been admitted long term.
Andrew Chilton, Operational Director of Finance at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, said:
“We have been able to freeze our public pricing for parking at Royal Bolton Hospital for the past two years, however we are experiencing rising costs when it comes to maintaining our car parks.
“The revenue collected from car parking charges is reinvested into our hospital estate to make sure it’s fit for the future, and we will regularly review our charges to ensure that they are appropriate.”
The price of public car parking charges from 8 April will be:
2 hours: £3.50
4 hours: £5.00
8 hours: £7.00
24 hours: £10.00
Monthly: £30.00
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust made more than £1m in car parking charges in 2023-24, figures show.
Data released by NHS England shows that the trust brought in £1.6m in car parking fees in the year up to March 2024.
£557k was from staff parking and £1.1m was from patients and visitors.
But the trust also spent £198k on parking services, so in total the money made from parking was £1.5m.
Parking at Royal Bolton Hospital uses an automated number plate recognition system provided and managed by ParkingEye.
The company took over managing the hospital car park in 2020.
The Chorley-based firm works on around 3,500 sites across the country, and manages parking for the NHS.
People who use the visitor car parks should pay the correct charge at one of the kiosks before they leave the site, or they will face a penalty.
Motorists are clocked as they enter the grounds of the hospital as ANPR — automated number plate recognition .
Private firm ParkingEye provides the cameras to capture motorists as they visit the hospital.
For more information about free or concessionary parking, visit the hospital’s main reception or call 01204 390782.
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