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Trust Travel Planner and Shuttle Bus information

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Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust has a Travel Planner to help support carers and family members to travel to its inpatient units. The Travel Planner is available 4pm to 8pm on 07501462792. For more information click here

The Travel Planner can help provide a map for drivers or for more complex journeys details of:
• Bus routes
• Details of the Local Link transport service
• Ring and Ride transport information
• Transport services available for Weekend and Bank Holiday
• Details for the local Tram Service which stops within a 10 minute walk from the hospital.

The TRAVEL PLANNER can also give advice and help plan journeys to other sites, such as Laureate House (based at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust site at Wythenshawe Hospital). For more information click here.

Shuttle service
How to get there... To help with the relocation from Edale House to Park House, the Trust has arranged for a shuttle service to operate between Manchester Royal Infirmary and Park House. The Shuttle will operate Monday - Sunday Manchester Royal Infirmary to North Manchester General Hospital.

The bus is marked MRI - NMGH and picks up at the parking bay opposite the Children's Hospital Entrance.  It drops off at the main entrance of North Manchester General Hospital. Download shuttle bus information - including a timetable - here.

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