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Building a Better Bristol

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We are making major improvements to our hospitals, by Building a Better Bristol, so we can improve the environment in which we provide excellent care. When you visit us in the New Year, you will notice a lot of building work going on across our hospitals, especially around the main entrance to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, our Emergency Department and at the entrances to the Bristol Heart Institute.

Please allow more time than usual to come to the hospital, think about how you will get here and if you can avoid coming by car then please do. Also give thought to where you will be dropped off and how you'll be collected.

These improvements will transform many of our facilities and very importantly allow us to move all the beds and wards out of the Old Building which no longer meet the accommodation standards that patients and staff both expect and deserve.

Our partners, Laing O'Rourke, are working very hard to minimise the inconvenience for patients and visitors but sadly a degree of upheaval is inevitable.

So think about how you're going to get to your appointment and talk to us so we can offer you alternatives if you are finding it difficult. There is a lot more information on our website, speak to a member of staff or check with your clinic. Please bear with us, it will be worth it!

  • For three weeks from 3 - 23 January, all vehicles will be stopped from turning into the main entrance of the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) on level 5.
  • Pedestrian access to the BHI will be rerouted through the garden area and into the level 5 entrance of the BHI. These changes are to enable Laing O'Rourke to put in the concrete support for a large crane.
  • From 24 January, ambulances and taxis will be able to use the level 5 entrance of the BHI.
  • Private vehicles should drop off patients at the Bristol Haematology and Oncology Centre or the drop off zone outside level 2 of the Queen's Building on Upper Maudlin Street.
  • Four additional 10-minute drop off car parking spaces have been added to the Queen's Building drop off zone and the route from the Queen's Building entrance to the BHI is sign posted.
  • Anyone requiring assistance should ring for a porter.   These changes will be in place until the ward block is completed in 2014.

Find out more about getting to and from our hospitals, the free shuttle bus service and car parking.

The time-lapse video below shows work currently underway to build our new ward block.