Car parking

There is parking for patients and visitors at Fordcombe, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals, and at the West Kent Community Diagnostic Centre in Maidstone.

At Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells hospitals, the car park will read your number plate as you arrive. When you return to your car, enter your registration at a payment machine and pay for your parking. Once you have paid, drive to the exit barrier and your number plate will be read again. The barrier will raise to allow you out of the car park.

Maidstone Hospital car park map [pdf] 1MB

Tunbridge Wells Hospital car park map [pdf] 772KB

Parking is free at Fordcombe Hospital and at the West Kent Community Diagnostic Centre at Hermitage Court in Maidstone.

Parking costs

  • Up to 30 minutes: £1.50
  • 30 minutes – 1 hour: £2.50
  • 1 – 2 hours: £3.30
  • 2 – 3 hours: £4.30
  • 3 – 4 hours: £5.30
  • 4- 5 hours: £6.30
  • 5 – 6 hours: £7.30
  • 6 – 7 hours: £8.30
  • 7 – 10 hours: £10
  • 10 – 16 hours: £12
  • 16 – 24 hours: £15
  • Weekly ticket (seven consecutive days) per vehicle: £14

Concessions

Blue Badge holders

Parking is free if you display your Blue Badge (see disabled parking section).

Cancer patients

Kent Oncology Centre patients are exempt from parking charges while they are receiving care.

You will need to enter your number plate at Main Reception or at the Kent Oncology Centre reception at Maidstone Hospital and this will allow car park entry and exit.

If you are a HODU patient at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, your numberplate details can be entered at HODU reception and this will allow car park entry and exit.

Neonatal patients

Parents of a child in our neonatal intensive care units are exempt from parking charges.

Renal patients

Renal patients receiving treatment are exempt from parking charges.

You will need to enter your numberplate at Main Reception at Maidstone Hospital and this will allow car park entry and exit.

Palliative care patients 

Immediate family members of patients receiving palliative or end of life care are exempt from parking charges. 

Please ask the ward or department for information.

Regular visitors

A weekly (seven consecutive days) ticket per vehicle is available from the payment machines for £14.

Patients on a low income

If you are on a low income, there is financial support to help with travel costs and parking fees, through the Healthcare Assisted Travel Cost Scheme.

Please ask your ward or department for information.

Refunds and other concessions

If an outpatient clinic is cancelled, patients will receive a free exit ticket from outpatient clinic staff.

If a patient has not seen a doctor within two hours of their appointment time, Outpatients staff may offer the patient a £2 capped parking ticket.

Disabled parking

There are no car parking charges for Blue Badge holders in any of our car parks.

Where barriers are in place, you will need to scan your Blue Badge at one of the payment machines or you can do this at the exit barrier when you leave the car park.

Maidstone Hospital

Disabled car parking areas for Maidstone Hospital are marked on our car park map (see the top of the page):

  • The main public car park (zone A)
  • The Oncology car park (zone B)
  • The Peggy Wood Breast Care Centre (zone E)
  • Renal Unit (zone G)

Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Disabled parking areas for Tunbridge Wells Hospital are in car park C and marked on our car park map (see top of page).

How to pay for parking

When you enter a car park at Maidstone or Tunbridge Wells hospitals, the system will read your number plate and your time of arrival.

Before returning to your vehicle, enter your vehicle registration at one of the payment machines.

Pay the amount shown, return to your car and go to the exit barrier

The exit barrier will read your number plate and allow you to exit

If you need help, press the help button on the barrier or payment machine.

Parking is free at Fordcombe Hospital and at the West Kent Community Diagnostic Centre.