Important update for anyone visiting Calderdale Royal Hospital from next week until October

The main entrance at Calderdale Royal Hospital will be temporarily closed from that date until early October as part of ongoing work.

Instead, people need to use the hospital service entrance on Dudwell Lane, the Women and Children’s entrance, or the hospital entrance from the A&E car park.

All wards and departments are open as usual.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, says drop offs, pick ups, and taxis must use the hospital service entrance on Dudwell Lane.

People can still drop off at the main entrance for the Birth Centre.

There will be signs explaining where to go.

"You can still use our café, restaurant, shops and other facilities by following the signs to the main entrance from within the hospital,” says the trust.

"You can also still use the bike shelters located outside the main entrance.”

All hospital entrances are accessible for wheelchair users.

The temporary closure of the main entrance is so that work can be carried out to widen the entrance way and install vehicle security bollards.

The trust says this will make it easier for people to get in and out of the hospital entrance once the new multi-storey car park opens in early autumn.

Once finished, the new car park will bring the number of parking spaces at Calderdale Royal Hospital to around 800.

Included in the plans are electric car charging points, extra blue badge spaces, cycle parking facilities and 24/7 CCTV.