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The ANPR system photographs all vehicles that enter and leave the hospital site. These cameras are linked to on-site pay machines meaning you can now pay when you leave to the hospital.

Some of the main benefits of ANPR include:

• pay on exit meaning you only pay for the hours you need
• card and cash payments or pay by Trust Parking App
  • Trust Parking App on the App Store (apple.com)
  • Trust - Apps on Google Play(Android)
• better vehicle movement across our sites
• quicker entrance and exit to our car parks
• Free drop off and pick up for 30 minutes including taxi’s

To pay for parking visitors to the hospital will need to make a note of their registration number to input into the ANPR pay machines. To pay please visit one of the pay machines before you exit the car park.

There’s no need to pay in advance, and no need to display a ticket. You will need to input your full car registration number in order to pay. You can pay using cash, card, contactless or by app at the payment machines.

Patients and visitors will still need to park in marked bays and adhere to car parking rules.

ANPR will not impact concessions for Blue Badge users and some other patient and visitor groups and the price of parking for other users remains the same.

Parking is free for registered disabled Blue Badge holders in our public car parks and in marked disabled bays.

To receive free parking, you must register your blue badge every day you visit the hospital to ensure your details are relevant and up to date. Once you have registered your blue badge you will be exempt from parking charges until midnight on the day of your visit. If you have an overnight visit, you will need to scan or enter your badge numbers on each day or email us with details of your visit within the last 48 hours.

To avoid a Parking Charge Notice please ensure you either:

1. Scan your Blue Badge or enter your Blue Badge number at any payment machine and enter your Vehicle Registration Number (VRN) at anytime during your visit. If you visit the hospital regularly, it may be useful to keep a note of your Blue Badge number to prevent you needing to return to your car as you can enter the number manually, or
2. Email your name, date of visit, Blue Badge number and expiry date and VRN details to ngh-tr.bluebadgeregistration@nhs.net within 48 hours of your visit, or
3. Go to the Travel Office, near to the main reception (Cliftonville, Area D), with your Blue Badge. The travel office will not be able to extend your Blue Badge for longer than the day of your visit.

Blue Badges must be fully displayed and the correct side up within the car. Please be advised that the Blue Badge Scheme parking regulations do not apply on the NGH site.

Where possible, please use the payment terminals to scan your Blue Badge or manually enter the last seven digits. Please note that when scanning your Blue Badge it is the barcode on the back of the card that needs to be scanned under the red light.

Blue Badge holders cannot park on double yellow or red lines and any other areas indicated as fire routes within the hospital grounds or any other parking restricted areas indicated by signage and/or permitted time. Visitor and patient Blue Badge holders are not permitted to park in any staff parking areas.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at ngh-tr.bluebadgeregistration@nhs.net and the team will do their best to support.

A concessionary weekly parking ticket costing £10, can be purchased from the Travel Office near to the main reception (Cliftonville, Area D). To get a weekly pass please ask the ward team to complete a form to authorise this.

Parking will be provided free to all outpatients who attend hospital for an appointment at least 3 times within a month and for an overall period of at least 3 months. A ‘month’ is defined as a period of 30 days.

Please go to the Travel Office with proof of appointments.

The parent of a child in hospital overnight is a parent or guardian of a child or young person, under 18 years of age, who is admitted as an inpatient at hospital overnight.

They receive free parking between the hours of 7.30pm and 8.00am while visiting the child. This would apply to a maximum of 2 vehicles.

Please go to the Travel Office with proof of overnight stay.

Free parking is available for patients undergoing cancer treatment. Please discuss this with the department.

Free parking is also available for visitors of patients who are receiving end of life care. Please speak to the Specialist Palliative Care Team.

We are really excited to have installed EV charging points on site for our colleagues and patients to use while they are at the hospital. This is part of our Green Plan work to become a more sustainable hospital and support those with electric vehicles to access charging points conveniently. Charging points are available as detailed on the map here.

Charging points are available in car parks 1 and 2 for public use (CP 2 is subject to time restrictions as a staff car park) and patients and visitors are able to use the charging points to charge electric vehicles whilst on the hospital site.

Currently we have limited dedicated motor cycle parking availability on site alongside our emergency department. As soon as our new assessment unit is open we will designate bays for motorcycle parking.

By car

From the M1 south

• Leave the M1 at Junction 15, and follow the A45 to Northampton
• After 1.5 miles, ignore town centre exit and stay on ring road A45 dual carriageway (signposted Wellingborough, Kettering and a red H for hospital) 
• After the Brackmills turn, take the A428 Bedford/Town Centre exit down to the large roundabout (Barnes Meadow interchange)
• Take the first exit from the roundabout – A428 Town Centre
• Get into right hand lane, and turn right at the traffic lights (Cliftonville Road)
• Continue up Cliftonville Road until the next set of traffic lights
• Turn left at the lights into the hospital entrance

From other routes

• From the north, follow the ring road and A45 west to the Barnes Meadow interchange
• From the east, follow the A45 west to the Barnes Meadow interchange
• From the west, follow the A45 east (ring road) to the Barnes Meadow interchange
• In each case, take the A428 Town Centre exit, and follow instructions above

By rail

Northampton railway station is half a mile west of the town centre and one mile from the hospital. There is a taxi rank at the station.

By bus

Stagecoach service 1 leaves Northgate bus station from bay 13 every half hour (18 and 48 minutes past the hour), and stops on the Billing Road near to the main entrance of the hospital five minutes later.To plan your jouney, you can use Stagecoach journey planner.

Our location in the town centre means we’re well served by local cycle routes save this pdf and create link to it as well as Route 6 of the National Cycle Route.

Check this map to see our available bicycle parking facilities for staff and visitors.