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scenic image of the Clifton Suspension Bridge - image credit Jarred Kyle
23 May 2025

Incident at St. Michael's Hospital

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Consultant Jessica Preshaw using the new Da Vinci Xi robot
Southmead
2 May 2025

‘Phenomenal’ new surgical robot unveiled at North Bristol NHS Trust

Dozens more patients a year are set to benefit from life-changing surgery in Bristol, after Southmead Hospital became the first site in the South West...

scenic image of the Clifton Suspension Bridge - image credit Jarred Kyle
Weston, City, Southmead
28 April 2025

NBT and UHBW launch Bristol NHS Group

North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust have today (28 April 2025) confirmed the formation of Bristol...

Jade King, Peer Support Lead at the Hepatitis C Trust, Sally Tilden, UHBW Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist and Annie Archer, UHBW Hepatology Registrar, posing next to a colourful Big Issue display banner, with a small medical device on chair in foreground
Weston, City
16 April 2025

UHBW works with the Big Issue to deliver potentially life-saving scans and tests to some of the city’s most vulnerable people

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) has been delivering potentially life-saving liver scans to people in the homeless...

Staff pose outside Weston Community Diagnostic Centre with balloons
Weston, City, Southmead
8 April 2025

North Bristol and Weston Community Diagnostic Centres celebrate their 1 year anniversary and providing 50,000 tests

In April, both North Bristol and Weston Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) and Weston celebrated one year of providing diagnostic tests.

Front of Bristol Royal infirmary photographed at night
City
3 April 2025

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children announce new name for paediatric neurosurgery robot

After thousands of submissions and votes from the public, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust announced the name of their new...