Parking at RBH 

Thank you for your feedback regarding parking at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH). We appreciate how frustrating it can be when you can’t find a parking space, especially when it is urgently needed.   

While we are restricted by our local authority with how many spaces we can have on site, we are planning a new patient and visitor car park at RBH, with up to 150 additional parking spaces and a minimum of 20 new blue badge spaces.

We know how important this is and we are aiming to have this ready for use by Summer 2026. Please bear with us as we make this happen as quickly and safely as possible.

In the meantime, we are working hard to improve the number of spaces at RBH now. We have several areas being used by our construction teams which will be released back to us soon, including a large amount of blue badge parking spaces by our Outpatients Department.

As we move services across our sites to transform our hospitals, many outpatient appointments will be moving to Poole Hospital, freeing up parking spaces at RBH. We are also looking at ways we can see our patients differently. In October more than 9,000 had virtual appointments from the comfort of their own homes, reducing the need to come to our hospital sites. We are reviewing how many more patients could be seen this way, or in the community.

We also have several drop off areas around our hospital for emergency situations and our bus hub at the front of the hospital is available for those able to use public transport instead.

We thank you for your patience while this work is ongoing.