2:20pm Friday 13th February 2009
Health bosses are spending around £850,000 on Skipton Hospital to meet fire safety and disabled access requirements.
Improvements will include new fire doors, a new alarm system and emergency lighting, plus replacing various fire doors and refurbishing fire escapes.
Work to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act will include automatic entrance doors and doors with low-level disability access for wheelchair users. Two lifts will be refurbished.
Janet Probert, director of community and mental health services for NHS North Yorkshire and York, said work was expected to start at the beginning of March and be completed by the end of September. She said disruption to services would be minimised.
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