A major investment programme comprising of phases 2 and 3A has been approved and is under way at Naas General Hospital. Construction of phase 2 commenced on site in November 1999. Phase 3A which includes additional accommodation and enabling works for future phases, 3B and 3C, commenced on site, as a variation to the phase 2 contract, in April 2002. The additional phase 3A accommodation is a pathology department, further out-patients department facilities and administration accommodation. The planned completion date for phase 2 and 3A is September 2003, with a staged handover of departments which began with the ward block in August 2002. The operating and radiology departments are programmed for handover in late October 2002 and the accident and emergency department for March 2003.