A Renal Interventional Unit has opened at Southmead Hospital following a donation from a Bristol kidney patients group. The two-bedded room within the renal inpatient ward in the Brunel building has been funded by the Bristol Area Kidney Patients’...
Providing a safe and high quality emergency service for our patients is our number one priority. Therefore we very much welcome the latest report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) which positively reflects the many changes and improvements that...
The new Bristol Brain Centre, which brings together expertise from North Bristol NHS Trust and the University of Bristol, was officially opened yesterday. The centre is the first of its kind in the country to bring together research teams in the...
The Major Arterial Centre at Southmead Hospital Bristol is celebrating its first anniversary. Centralising major arterial surgery at the hospital has meant that emergency patients have access to both Vascular Surgery and Interventional Radiology, 24...
The old buildings of Southmead Hospital are being given a new lease of life as part of construction on the second phase of the Brunel building. Demolition of the old Southmead wards has now been completed. And more than half of the stone from the...
North Bristol NHS Trust has launched as one of England’s first Excellence Centres as part of an initiative to improve training for healthcare support staff. The National Skills Academy for Health North Bristol Excellence Centre is one of six...
The Trust takes the findings of the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) report extremely seriously. We fully acknowledge that the quality and safety in the Emergency Department when the CQC re-inspected was not at a standard our patients should expect...
The Care Quality Commission has published its report into services at North Bristol NHS Trust. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected North Bristol NHS Trust just before Christmas. Every single service was rated as being “good” in the context of...
A ceremony to mark the official opening of Cossham Birth Centre took place this afternoon. The local area’s first midwife-led birth centre at the Kingswood hospital opened its doors in January 2013 and since then almost 800 babies have been born...
A new specialist arterial centre, providing state of the art planned and emergency inpatient care has opened at Southmead Hospital in Bristol. The centre will specialise in the management of vascular diseases, and disorders of the arteries, veins and...
