Kent and Canterbury Hospital

Plan your route

You might find the following websites useful in planning your route to our hospital (other websites are available)

• AA Map finder - enter your postcode, town or area to find online maps of your area

• Google maps- enter your postcode, town or area and the hospital postcode CT1 3NG

• AA Route Planner - you can search for a route using street or postcode, town or city and enter the hospital postcode CT1 3NG.

• Follow @KentHighways for the latest information on traffic and travel news or visit the Kent Government website

Car parks

Kent and Canterbury Hospital offers pay-on-foot and pay & display parking. Drivers can enter the site via the entrance off Ethelbert Road, or via the entrance at South Canterbury Road.

Car park 1 (pay-on-foot)

43 bays - directly opposite the Children’s Assessment Centre and the Gate Clinic. Pay at the pay station located near the car park exit before returning to your vehicle.

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Car park 2 (pay-on-foot)

86 bays - located centrally, opposite the Fracture Clinic. Pay at the pay station located at the bottom end of the car park before returning to your vehicle.

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Car park 3 (pay-on-foot)

122 bays - located at the Outpatients end of the site, outside the Haemophilia Centre. Pay at the pay station located to the left of the Outpatients building before returning to your vehicle.

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Car park Zone 4 (pay & display)

34 bays - located outside the Medical Education Centre (opposite Day Surgery) and the recommended parking location for any clinics in the 1937 building, including Oncology.

Designated disabled bays can be found outside of all the main hospital entrance points for the use of blue-badge holders:

• 22 outside the 1937 building

• 23 outside the Fracture Clinic

• 20 outside Outpatients  

Patient drop-off bays are located directly outside the hospital entrances. These are intended for drop-off and pick-up only and we would ask you not to wait or park there as space is limited.

Renal, Headway and Clinical Rehabilitation patients each have limited designated bays located close to those departments. Please speak to your clinical contact for further details.

Staff parking areas are reserved for staff permit holders only – please be careful not to park in one of these as you may be liable to a parking ticket. Please also be mindful of areas signed for restricted use as standard P&D tickets will not be valid in those areas.

Canterbury Medical Centre is a new community GP surgery located just inside the hospital site at the top of Ethelbert Road.  It is not linked with East Kent Hospitals University Foundation NHS Trust other than sharing part of our site.  Please be very careful not to park in their patient car park which is camera controlled as you will receive a parking ticket from their car park operator.

Weekly permits and parking charges

Weekly permits for use in the barrier car parks can be obtained via the pay stations. Simply press the 'others' button on the pay station display screen and the weekly ticket option will appear. Keep the ticket safe as on subsequent visits, you will need to insert it at the entry barrier to gain access, and again at the exit barrier when you leave.

For details of parking charges, please see parking information and charges.

Stagecoach route 25 provides frequent buses between the hospital and Canterbury city centre. At the city centre connections can be made with buses to and from outlying areas.

To plan your bus journey to and from the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, please use the Stagecoach journey planner or call Traveline on 0871 200 2233 (calls cost 12p per minute plus your phone company's access charge).

Trains to Canterbury (Kent and Canterbury Hospital)

Canterbury East is the nearest rail station to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. It is a short walk to the bus station. Canterbury West rail station is further, although several bus services run from there to the bus station. From the bus station you can catch bus service 25 or 25a to the hospital.

There are regular direct train services to Canterbury East from Faversham, Adisham, London Victoria and Dover Priory, as well as many other stations. 

There are regular direct train services to Canterbury West from Margate, Ramsgate, Ashford and Maidstone, as well as many other stations.

Please visit the South Eastern Railway website for full details and times of rail connections and timetables.

For information on the PlusBus service, which adds unlimited bus travel around town when you purchase your train ticket, please visit the PlusBus website.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust provides a free non-emergency ambulance healthcare transport service for patients who have a clinical and medical need for transport, where their current mobility needs would not allow them to use their own, or public transport to get to or from an NHS health care appointment.

To find out if you are eligible, please see Getting to our hospitals by NHS transport.