Fairfield General Hospital

The hospital is well served by bus, particularly on Rochdale Old Road using buses 467 and 468.  The nearest 467/ 468 bus stops for the hospital are located on each side of Rochdale Old Road, outside the hospital grounds (Stops F and G). Bus Service 433 also serves bus stops within the hospital grounds, including at the Main Entrance. 

For buses serving Fairfield General Hospital, see:

Fairfield General Hospital | Bee Network | tfgm.com/public-transport/hospitals/fairfield-general

The hospital is around a 15 minute bus ride from Bury Interchange and Bury Interchange Metrolink Stop, where further connections to services from other areas are available.

Possible Disruption to bus services Friday 19th September 2025 to Monday 22nd September 2025

Staff at Stagecoach, Metroline, and First – who operate services on the Bee Network – have announced that they plan to strike from Friday 19 to Monday 22 September (inclusive). This will significantly disrupt bus services across Manchester, Oldham,Tameside, Trafford, and Stockport. Due to the timing of the industrial action, late-night services on Thursday 18 September and early morning services on Tuesday 23 September may also be affected. A full list of impacted services is available here: www.beenetwork.com/bus-industrial-action. Services in Bolton and Wigan will run as normal, as well as some routes in North Manchester and Salford, plus the free bus in Manchester city centre. Local Link and Ring and Ride services will also operate as usual. 

Travel advice includes: 

• Plan ahead and check your journey using the Bee Network app or website. 
• Bus passengers with seven, 28-day or annual passes, as well as those with concessionary passes – including our pass - will be able to use their tickets and passes on all Metrolink trams and some Northern and TransPennine Express Trains on strike days.  
• Local Link and Ring and Ride services will run as usual. 
• Tram and train services may be busier than normal – avoid peak times where possible (7am-9am and 4pm-6pm). 
• Roads and hire bike demand may also be busier. 

TfGM will have extra staff at key locations to assist passengers and will extend the Bee Network contact centre hours to ensure people can get in touch with any questions. 

For full details of bus services that are not expected to run, where people can use existing tickets and other travel advice, please visit - www.beenetwork.com/bus-industrial-action.

The nearest Metrolink station is Bury, approximately 2 miles from Fairfield General Hospital. The easiest option is to then transfer from the Tram to a Bus, around a 15 minute bus ride on bus services 433, 467 or 468 to/ from Bury Interchange. To walk to Fairfield from Bury Metrolink, click here for the walking routes.

The hospital is located off the B6222 Bury and Rochdale Old Road, with a traffic light controlled entrance/ exit off this road.

Visit our car parking information page for details of parking arrangements at our hospitals. Please be aware that our parking does get very busy during Monday to Friday daytime hours and permit controlled parking is in operation in surrounding streets nearby.  If possible, please try to use an alternative travel choice to needing to park a car.

Visit the Car Parking page for more information on where to park and charges.

Taxis are permitted to drop off and collect patients and visitors at all hospital entrances and locations signed or marked as drop off/ pick up areas.

Active ways of travelling (walking and cycling) are great ways of incorporating physical activity into all or part of a journey.  For those who are able to do so, encouraging active travel such as cycling and walking is part of our commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of our wider community and also help to deliver a net zero emissions National Health Service.  For further information in relation to walking and cycling in Greater Manchester, please see Home | TfGM Active Travel.

Travel is a useful journey planner to find bike routes which avoid busy roads, or for planning a walking route, try Walk it.

The Accident and Emergency (A&E) and main entrance are located off the mini-roundabout upon entering the site (2nd and 3rd exits respectively). Further entrances can be accessed using the 4th exit on the mini-roundabout and the road travelling through the site.

The main public parking areas identified by green signage are located at either the top of the hospital site (take the immediate first left after entering the site at the traffic light junction for Patient and Visitor Car Park 1) or the further around the site (4th exit off the roundabout) Car Parks 2 to 4. These numbers releate to the entrance they are nearest to. Drop off/pick up areas and some further small areas of patient and visitor parking, plus blue badge parking are located near to other entrances and some departments.

For public transport information and journey planning, including walking or cycling, visit www.tfgm.com (Transport for Greater Manchester).  Alternatively, contact Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 (10p per minute from BT landlines) for public transport information across the North West.  Google maps will also allow you to plan journeys by car, public transport, walking or cycling.

A number of door to door demand responsive transport services (Local Links) also provide journeys to/from our hospital sites. For further details please visit tfgm.com/locallink (external website) or contact the TfGM contact centre on 0161 244 1000.

For those less able to use conventional public transport, a door to door (Ring and Ride) service operates across Greater Manchester. For more details including how to register, visit tfgm.com/ringandride (external website), or contact the TfGM contact centre on 0161 244 1000.

In a medical emergency, where the need is critical, or life-threatening, patients or their carers should dial 999 for a paramedic-led ambulance response. NHS Choices states that ‘it will generally be obvious if the patient, or someone else, is seriously ill, or injured, and will need emergency care’. A medical professional may also call for an ambulance on your behalf where this is appropriate. For non-emergencies, other use of ambulance transport is based on agreed eligibility criteria, according to the medical needs of the patient.

If you need to arrange patient transport for an appointment, please contact the NWAS transport service, direct on 0800 032 3240.

You may be able to claim a refund under the ‘Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme’ (HTCS) of the cost of travelling to hospital or other NHS premises for NHS-funded treatment or diagnostic test arranged by a doctor or dentist, if you are in receipt of certain allowances or benefits. To obtain a HTCS refund you will need to complete a HC5 (T) form, available from the Cashier’s or General Office at each hospital site. More information on the Healthcare Travel Costs Scheme can be found on the NHS Choices website.