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Baroness Merron with NBT colleagues outside NBT Trust Headquarters
Southmead
25 September 2024

Government Minister meets staff and service users during tour of maternity and neonatal services at Bristol’s Southmead Hospital

Baroness Merron, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health, met staff and service users during a...

Side-by-side portraits of Glyn Howells and Stu Walker
Weston, City, Southmead
2 September 2024

North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust appoint Hospital Managing Directors

Glyn Howells and Professor Stuart Walker appointed to new positions.

Freddies sister visits him in his hospital bed
City
28 August 2024

Freddie becomes first in UK to benefit from new state-of the-art ECMO technology

A three-year-old boy, who fell critically ill after contracting multiple viruses, has become the first patient in the UK to benefit from a new state...

Gifty Markey - in uniform
Southmead
21 August 2024

A senior nurse at North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) has been appointed as joint chair of an influential national equality and diversity group.

Gifty Markey, who is Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Mental Health, Learning Disability and Neurodiversity at NBT, and Vinice Thomas, Director of...

The front of Bristol Royal Hospital for Children at night, with the Hoops sculpture illuminated
City
7 August 2024

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children becomes first paediatric centre to install new equipment which recycles waste anaesthetic gases

Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) has become the first paediatric NHS hospital to install new equipment which captures the waste gases...

Landscape photo of the Bristol Suspension Bridge
Weston, City, Southmead
6 August 2024

Healthier Together partnership message: zero-tolerance for racism

The following message is from Healthier Together, our Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care System.