North Bristol NHS Trust has announced 4 new appointments to its Board including for the first time two Associate Non-Executive Directors. Kelly Macfarlane, Managing Director of Customer Experience at Thames Water, and Richard Gaunt a former partner...
Following a highly competitive process, Bristol Health Partners (BHP) is now one of only eight designated Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) in England. The AHSC will drive service change, leading to world-class health, clinical and economic...
Health and care leaders in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire have today issued an open letter to everyone across the area. The letter – signed by NHS, council and community organisations – thanks local people for observing the...
Today we celebrate Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday on International Nurses’ Day in this, the International #YearoftheNurseandMidwife. Nurses and midwives make up the largest numbers of the NHS workforce. 2020 is our time to reflect on the...
Today we celebrate #IDM2020 and at 12 noon we will clap for our Midwives! NBT has over 300 midwives helping deliver over 6,000 babies every year at home, at Cossham Birth Centre, at Mendip Birth Centre and Central Delivery Suite – thank you. Ailish...
Less than three weeks since work started, NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol opens today. Based at University of West of England Frenchay campus, it will provide up to 300 intensive care beds for coronavirus patients, if local services need them. The...
At NBT we are working together to support our community and manage the impact of Covid-19. To meet increasing demands as a result of the pandemic and to maintain capacity we are strengthening our workforce. That means we are recruiting to all grades...
Maureen Ellington, a healthcare assistant at Southmead Hospital, sadly passed away in the early hours of Easter Sunday. Maureen had tested positive for Covid-19. Maureen, who was in her early 60s, had worked for the NHS for over 25 years. Over the...
Work has begun to convert the Exhibition and Conference Centre on UWE Bristol’s Frenchay campus into a 300-bed temporary hospital to provide hundreds of extra beds if local services need them during the peak of coronavirus. The hospital is expected...
Health and care leaders in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire back ‘Before Their Time’ campaign Health and care leaders, including senior doctors and nurses across the region, have pledged their support to a new national campaign...
