- Downham Market and the surrounding villages
- Mon to Thu, 8am to 10pm, Fri to Sat, 8am to midnight, Sun, closed
Pre-booked, with a firm price up front, for the Queen Elizabeth, Addenbrooke’s and beyond.
G and M Taxis runs pre-booked taxis for hospital appointments to and from Downham Market and the surrounding villages. We cover the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge and the Anglia Community Eye Clinic, with a firm price up front and no meter.
Taxis to hospital appointments from Downham Market and the villages, to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn.
Longer runs too, out to Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge and the Anglia Community Eye Clinic in Wisbech.
Booked in advance, with a firm price up front and no meter. We accept cash or card.
Twelve years local to West Norfolk, 5.0 on Google. Council-licensed and hire and reward insured, with Geoff driving.
Part of our local taxi service work in Downham Market, for appointments, the station and longer journeys.
Getting a taxi to King’s Lynn for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital usually takes about 25 to 30 minutes from Downham Market, straight up the A10. It’s a hospital taxi run we know well. We know the road, the drop-off points, and when the fen fog means leaving a little earlier than usual.
Geoff’s driven it more times than he could count, at all hours, for appointments, outpatients and visiting. Traffic through Setchey and around the roundabouts near the hospital can add a few minutes, and that matters more than it sounds. If you’ve got a 10 o’clock appointment, the last thing you want is to be stuck behind a tractor on a back lane with no way round it.
Coming from further out, say Stoke Ferry or Hilgay, we build extra time into the pickup. Wereham or Denver adds roughly 10 minutes onto the drive, nothing that changes the trip much. Winter is the one to watch, since early frost or fog on the fen roads can slow things down, so Geoff sets the pickup time with that in mind rather than cutting it fine.
We agree on a firm price before you set off, no meter, and take cash or card. If your appointment time changes, a call to Melissa usually sorts a new pickup time.
Send us a message with your date and destination and we’ll come back with a price.
If you’re having dialysis three times a week or chemo every fortnight, having the same hospital taxi and driver each time makes life easier, someone who already knows the route and roughly when you’ll be ready to head home.
For a pattern like that, we can usually set it up as a standing booking rather than a fresh call each week. Say your dialysis slot is Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday mornings at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, we can pencil those in weeks ahead, and you just confirm nearer the time if anything changes.
Chemo sessions are harder to pin down, since the time you’re ready can shift depending on how the treatment day goes. If your session overruns, a call or message to Melissa usually sorts a new pickup time, rather than you waiting at the door not knowing when your lift will turn up.
We cover Downham Market and the villages out towards Hilgay, Denver and Stoke Ferry, and a regular run into King’s Lynn from any of those is exactly the sort of booking we’re set up for. Geoff and Melissa run it day to day, so you’re speaking to the same two people each time rather than a different voice down a phone line.
Our hours run Monday to Thursday 8am to 10pm and Friday and Saturday 8am to midnight, with Sunday closed. An early start for a morning dialysis slot can usually be arranged, given enough notice to get it locked into the diary properly.
We also cover longer hospital trips that start local, and a taxi to Addenbrooke’s in Cambridge is one we do often, whether it’s an outpatient clinic, a scan or a day case. It’s a fair drive, and parking on the Addenbrooke’s site is limited, so we book it well ahead and agree a firm price before you set off. We also run out to the Wisbech eye clinic, mostly for cataract checks and follow-up appointments.
If you won’t be up to driving yourself afterwards, say so when you book and Geoff will plan the day around getting you home again. These trips sit alongside our long distance taxi work from Downham Market and our train station pickups, so it is one firm and one number for the lot.
The call usually comes the same way: a ward nurse says your mum can go home this afternoon, and suddenly you need a car sorted within the next hour or two. It’s one of the harder hospital taxi jobs to plan for, since we get calls like this fairly often and we’ll help if we’ve got a car free. We’re upfront that we’re not a taxi rank service, and we don’t have cars sitting idle waiting for a job to drop in.
Ring us as soon as your hospital discharge looks likely, even before the paperwork’s done. If Geoff isn’t already out on a run, we can often fit you in within the hour. If we’re busy, we’ll say so straight away rather than leave you waiting in a hospital corridor with a bag of belongings and a worried relative.
Our hours matter here too. A pickup outside them, on a Sunday or late at night, needs arranging in advance rather than on the day.
We can’t promise a car’s free every time you call at short notice. No small firm can. But if we’ve taken the booking, Geoff turns up when he says he will.
For a real emergency, ring 999 or get an ambulance out rather than waiting on a taxi booking. A hospital taxi from us covers the planned side of things: appointments, hospital discharges, visiting, or treatment you already knew about in advance.
We don’t run a vehicle that takes a wheelchair without transferring into a seat, and there’s no ramp fitted. If you need a wheelchair vehicle, we’re not the right call for that particular trip. It’s a straightforward limit, and we’d rather tell you now than have you find out when we turn up.
The same goes for anyone needing medical kit on board, oxygen support or trained staff during the journey. That’s patient transport territory, not a licensed taxi, so we’re better suited to a normal appointment in Downham Market or a longer taxi trip out to King’s Lynn, where there’s no clinical need on the way.
If your appointment is genuinely last minute, say this afternoon with no notice at all, we might not have a car free. We take bookings well ahead, and that’s how we keep things reliable, so a same-day request outside our hours won’t always work. It’s still worth a call, since sometimes we can fit it in, but we won’t promise what we can’t deliver.
Most people booking a hospital taxi aren’t in a wheelchair, just a bit slower or unsteady, perhaps using a stick or a frame after surgery. Geoff’s happy to give a hand to the car door and wait until you’re settled, rather than pulling away before you’re ready.
A few small details at the time of booking help the pickup go smoothly:
None of this is a hassle to mention. It lets Melissa note it in the diary properly, so Geoff knows what to expect before he arrives. If you’re not sure whether any of it applies, ring and describe your situation plainly and we’ll tell you whether we can help.
The questions we get asked most about taxis to hospital appointments from Downham Market
It’s usually about 25 to 30 minutes from Downham Market, mostly up the A10, though Setchey and the roundabouts near the Queen Elizabeth Hospital can add a few minutes. Coming from Stoke Ferry or Hilgay we allow extra time for the longer run, and in winter fen fog or frost can slow things down, so we build that into the pickup time rather than cutting it fine. Tell us your appointment time and we’ll work backwards from there.
Often, yes, we can look at setting these up as a standing booking rather than you ringing around each time. Once we know a pattern, say dialysis three mornings a week at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, we can pencil the trips in weeks ahead, and a chemo session that overruns can usually be sorted with a call to Melissa to shift the pickup. It’s the same two of us handling it each time, so you’re not explaining your situation to someone new every visit.
Ring us as soon as discharge looks likely, even before the paperwork’s done, and if Geoff isn’t already out on a run we can often fit you in within the hour. We’re upfront if we’re busy rather than leaving you guessing in a hospital corridor. Mention any walking frames or bags, and give us the exact ward or entrance, since the car parks at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn can be a bit of a maze.
No, we don’t run a vehicle that takes a wheelchair without transferring into a seat, and there’s no ramp fitted. Oxygen support or trained staff on the journey falls under patient transport rather than a licensed taxi, and we’d rather say so now than have you find out at the kerb. For a normal appointment or discharge with no clinical need on the way, we’re the right call.
We cover Downham Market and the villages out towards Hilgay, Denver and Stoke Ferry, with regular runs into King’s Lynn. Denver and Wereham add roughly 10 minutes onto the drive, nothing that changes the trip much, and a regular hospital run from any of these villages is exactly the sort of booking we’re set up for. Our hours run Monday to Thursday 8am to 10pm and Friday and Saturday 8am to midnight, with Sunday closed.
We’ll try to help, but we can’t promise a car free at very short notice, since we take bookings well ahead and that’s how we keep things reliable. If your appointment is genuinely last minute, ring as early as you can and we’ll tell you straight away whether we’ve got a car. A same-day request outside our working hours won’t always be possible, so earlier notice always helps.
Give us a ring or send us a message and we will give you a price. You will be talking to Geoff or Melissa, not a call centre.
