Southmead Hospital NHS

24/07/2025

🥊 Round Two: Health Checks on Joe Sims BBC Bristol Breakfast show!

We’re back in Easton for the second event of our four-part series—this time, we’re at Empire Fighting Chance gym with Joe Sims, broadcasting his BBC Bristol radio morning show right from the ring. While Joe’s on air, we’ll be providing free health checks and advice on a range of topics, focusing on testicular cancer screening, plus expert advice from NBT's Dr Jonathan Aning, Urology Consultant (pictured).

📍 Empire Fighting Chance Boxing Gym, Easton on Friday 25 July from 6-10am
🎙 Live BBC Radio Bristol Morning Show with Joe Sims
🧬 Health checks and testicular cancer advice provided by NBT 7.30am-12 midday

24/07/2025

We recently had the privilege of welcoming the Rt Hon Peter Kyle MP, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology.

The Secretary of State saw our surgical robots in action, met patients who've recently undergone robotic surgery and met with Trust executives and consultants who are championing the use of robotics and AI across our hospitals.

Robotic surgery is kinder, less invasive and involves a shorter recovery time. We're proud to be leading the way in this incredible field and showing technological innovation in the NHS at its best 💙

23/07/2025

During the national strike action taking place from 07:00 on Friday 25 July until 06:59 on Wednesday 30 July 2025, please attend your appointment at our hospitals unless you hear from us.

Please don’t call to check if your appointment is going ahead.

22/07/2025

Sign up now! ❤️

You can now book your place onto Bristol NHS Group’s Annual Meeting and Health Fair.

Find out how we are performing against our priorities, our intentions and commitments for the year ahead and attend a health fair hosting NHS services, and community partners offering health checks, advice, and meet some of the teams making a difference in our hospitals and communities.

Find out more and sign up on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-nhs-group-annual-meeting-and-health-fair-tickets-1513016195169?aff=oddtdtcreator

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

We were delighted to host a Harvey's Lab Tours at Severn Pathology – an initiative which helps children to be informed about their care.

A group of six children, patients of the the University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Paediatric Metabolic Service at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who all have the inherited metabolic disorder PKU, put on lab coats and became scientists for the day! 🥼🧪

Read more on our website 🔗https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/news-media/latest-news/young-patients-visit-labs-at-southmead-hospital-learn-about-their-healthcare

17/07/2025

Following the successful formation of the Bristol NHS Group by North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW), we now intend to become a single organisation with the merger of our two Trusts.

This comes directly from clinical feedback. Our clinicians are clear: by working together as one team we believe we will be able to do more than ever for the people in our care and communities we serve.

This is not a final decision, but the beginning of a thorough process to shape and inform one – with patient and staff feedback at its heart. ➡️ https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/news-media/latest-news/next-step-journey-bristol-nhs-group

15/07/2025

Save the date! Bristol NHS Group’s Annual Meeting and Health Fair 2025📅

Do you want to find out more about local hospital care? 🤔

Join us on Tuesday 16 September at the Malcolm X Community Centre, from 16:30 – 19:30, for the first ever joint North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Annual Meeting and Health Fair.

You can find out about:
ℹ️ How we performed against our priorities
ℹ️ Governance and leadership
ℹ️ Financial performance
ℹ️ Our intentions and commitments for the year ahead

There will also be a health fair which will host a range of stalls hosted by NHS services and community partners, offering health checks, advice and opportunity to meet frontline experts making a difference in your area.

Bristol NHS Group is a partnership between North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW).

We will provide details about how you can sign up shortly.

14/07/2025

You may have spotted the Elective Centre taking shape near the Monks Park Avenue entrance to the hospital. Today we've welcomed the first outpatients through the doors for clinics ahead of surgery starting next month. 💙

The centre is a joint project between North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, supported by Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire ICB and NHS England, which will create additional theatre capacity for thousands more operations to be carried out on patients from across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

Carly found it “quite exciting” to be the first patient inside the building for her consent clinic ahead of surgery to remove a titanium radial head, while second patient Louise attended an appointment ahead of surgery on her thumb and found the building “beautiful, light and airy”, adding “it definitely gives you confidence in what’s going to happen”.

09/07/2025

Lovely to see our Brunel building in the sunshine today! ☀️

With sunshine comes a reminder to take care in the hot weather. Follow these tips to keep cool in the heat forecast over the next week 🌡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/beat-the-heat-hot-weather-advice/beat-the-heat-staying-safe-in-hot-weather

08/07/2025

Interested in supporting the NHS? 💙

There’s still time to apply to join the Bristol NHS Group’s Community Participation Group and help shape how local services are delivered.

✅ Apply now: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/about-us/bristol-nhs-group/community-participation-group
⏳Applications close at midnight on Sunday, 13 July - just a few of days left!

05/07/2025

Happy birthday, NHS! 🎊

We're celebrating 77 years of NHS service today and want to mark the contributions of our incredible workforce. To everyone who's worked at our hospital over the years - thank you for all that you do ❤

Please share your thanks with our wonderful colleagues in the comments!