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A new traffic flow system is now in place at Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest to make way for the £7.5million state-of-the-art Renal Dialysis unit. Work on this new facility has recently commenced and will be open to patients by February 2014. As part of the preparation for the construction of the renal development, temporary changes to patient and staff car parking are required to be undertaken. The main entry and parking for patients and visitors to the hospital site is via the Fishguard Road using the front car parks. Patients and visitors can no longer access the site from the roundabout entrance. Exit from the front car parks can be either via the main site entry point (as is currently the case) or alternatively via the link road between the two car parks, which has changed to a one way flow. Attendants will be on hand to help manage these changes in the initial implementation stages. Signage is clearly displayed on the roads approaching the site and in the hospital grounds ...

Work will get underway on the new £7.5million 21 bay state of the art Renal Dialysis Unit proposed for Withybush Hospital on August 20. The funding was recently approved by the Welsh Government and the new unit is expected to open its doors to its first patents in February 2014. This new unit will be the most energy efficient and environmental sustainable building of its kind in the UK and will remove the need for patients to travel out of Pembrokeshire to receive Dialysis treatment. It will be built at the front to the hospital and will replace the current six bay facility which is located in porta-cabins at the back of the hospital site. As part of the construction traffic circulation routes around the hospital site will improve, there will be increased parking provision for patients and visitors, staff and disabled people together with improving the general entry and exit of the hospital site. A further benefit will that local buses will be able drop off / pick up passengers dire...