Private Hospitals UK · Spire Healthcare · Hale, Altrincham · Updated October 2026

Spire Hale Clinic (Altrincham): What It Offers, Costs and Insurers (2026)

Spire Hale Clinic is Spire Healthcare’s outpatient clinic in Hale village, two minutes from Hale station, with consultant clinics in more than a dozen specialties, a dermatology service, and on-site blood tests, X-ray and ultrasound, feeding into Spire Manchester Hospital for anything that needs a theatre. This guide covers what is on site, how it links to Spire Manchester, getting there, self-pay and which insurers cover it.

Postcode

WA15 9SF

Consulting rooms

5 (2 treatment rooms)

On site

Blood tests, X-ray, ultrasound

Surgery

At Spire Manchester

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What Spire Hale Clinic Offers

The clinic occupies a converted building on Ashley Road in the centre of Hale, with five outpatient consulting rooms including two treatment rooms, on-site phlebotomy for blood tests, and an X-ray and ultrasound suite. Spire’s own listing of what is seen at Hale covers blood tests, bones and joints, breast screening and surgery, cosmetic surgery, digestive and bowel health, ENT, general surgery, gynaecology, heart treatments, neurology, rheumatology, spinal and neurosurgery, urology and women’s health, and the treatment list includes cystoscopy, ECG, liver and kidney tests, headache clinics, facet joint and back-pain injections, and removal of moles, cysts, warts and skin tags. Children are seen by appointment.

The dermatology clinic is one of the busiest services, with consultant dermatologists seeing skin cancer checks, eczema and dermatitis, psoriasis and acne, and doing minor skin surgery in the treatment rooms; see private dermatology costs, private mole removal and NHS dermatology waiting times for why people come here instead. Spire’s facilities list says no private GP at Hale, although a Spire GP booking link appears on the page, so ask when you phone; otherwise see private GPs in Manchester. There is no physiotherapy on site. Related specialist guides: private ENT, private gynaecologists, private neurology, private breast ultrasound and private mammograms.

People searching for the “Hale Spire clinic” or “Spire Manchester clinic Hale” are looking for the same place; Spire renamed it Spire Hale Clinic, and the old name still appears on maps and older listings.

How It Links to Spire Manchester Hospital

Spire runs Hale as the outpatient front door for south Manchester and north Cheshire. A consultant sees you in Hale, arranges the blood test, X-ray or ultrasound on the same visit, and if you need an MRI, an endoscopy or an operation under general anaesthetic it is booked at a Spire hospital, usually Spire Manchester on Russell Road, about six miles north, with the same consultant. The two sites are not the same place: Spire Manchester Hospital has theatres, overnight beds and a full imaging department, and publishes guide prices for operations; Spire Hale Clinic has neither theatres nor beds and publishes no prices. For how Spire compares with its neighbours see Spire vs Nuffield, Spire vs Circle and Nuffield Health Manchester.

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Address, Opening Times, Trains and Parking

• Address: Spire Hale Clinic, 159 Ashley Road, Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire WA15 9SF (Spire’s page shows the sat-nav postcode as “WA15 9S” in one place, a typo for WA15 9SF).
• Phone: 0161 927 3878 for general enquiries, self-pay bookings and insured bookings.
• Opening times: not published by Spire; clinics run by appointment and vary by consultant, so confirm blood-test and imaging times when booking.
• Trains and trams: Hale station (Manchester Piccadilly to Chester line) is two to five minutes’ walk; Altrincham station and the Altrincham Metrolink stop are about 15 to 17 minutes on foot or a short taxi ride; Manchester Airport is about five miles, roughly 10 to 15 minutes by taxi.
• Parking: Spire lists no free parking at the clinic; on-street and pay-and-display parking is available in Hale village. The clinic has disabled access.

Self-Pay Costs

Spire takes self-paying patients at Hale for consultations, blood tests, imaging and minor procedures, and offers medical loans through its finance partners, but does not publish a price list for the clinic, so this guide quotes no figures for it; ask for a written quote stating what is included. Operations arranged from Hale are priced by the hospital that does them, and Spire Manchester’s guide prices are on our Spire Manchester Hospital page. For what the same tests cost at independent clinics nearby, compare private blood tests in Manchester, private X-rays in Manchester, private ultrasound in Manchester, private MRI in Manchester, private echocardiograms in Manchester and private endoscopy in Manchester, or the national private hospital price list and 0% finance guide. Booking mechanics are in how to get a private referral and how quickly private specialists see you.

Health Insurance and Which Insurers Cover It

Spire Healthcare is on the standard hospital lists of Bupa, AXA Health, Aviva, Vitality, WPA and The Exeter, and an outpatient appointment at a Spire clinic is normally covered on the same basis as the hospital, so Hale is one of the easier private sites to use on a mid-range policy. Two checks still apply. First, the consultant must be recognised by your insurer and you need pre-authorisation before the appointment. Second, everything at Hale is outpatient, so your policy’s outpatient limit decides whether the consultation, the blood tests and the scan are paid: see outpatient limits explained. Our insurer guides explain each list: Bupa, AXA, Aviva, Vitality (and Vitality at Spire and Nuffield) and WPA. Insurance covers conditions that start after you join; a problem you already have is usually excluded, so see pre-existing conditions and is private health insurance worth it?. A private GP can provide the referral most policies ask for.

Nearby Alternatives

For a full hospital, the nearest are Spire Manchester in Whalley Range, The Alexandra Hospital, Cheadle, The Wilmslow Hospital and, for cancer care, The Christie Private Care; Spire’s other Cheshire sites are Spire Cheshire in Warrington and Spire Regency in Macclesfield. The Stockport and Trafford pages cover the area in more detail, and Circle Health Group in Manchester compares the Circle sites. For the cheapest route to a single scan or blood test, the Manchester diagnostics pages above list independent clinics with published prices.

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