The facilities, due to open in October, will include family rooms for 30 short-term patients and eight transition care flats for children suffering from long-term illnesses, such as ventilated conditions, cancer and lung and heart transplants.
Located three minutes' walk from the hospital, the flats are part of the hospital's redevelopment scheme, financed by fundraising and a 225m investment announced by the Government last week.
A hospital spokesman said the flats would provide families with the opportunity to adjust to their children's condition, while learning skills they needed to cope in confidence.
He said it would also free up skilled paediatric nursing staff to treat other children.
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