The new South Bristol NHS Community Hospital is just a few days away from opening its doors to patients! Since 2008 and up until the hospital opening, Bristol Community Health have been the lead provider and have managed the hospitals implementation. Our project team have worked hard to liaise with and co-ordinate a range of partners, providers and other organisations involved in the service development, build and commissioning, now all their hard work has provided an incredible result and one that will make a huge difference to the health and well being of the people of south Bristol. It is estimated that the new state of the art hospital will see around 145,000 patients annually and will help to save an estimated 80,000 patient journeys a year into central Bristol.
An open day was held on 20th March, to give local people the opportunity to look around their new hospital. This saw over 600 members of the general public flock to see the facilities, with over 300 arriving in the first hour. Feedback on the day was overwhelmingly positive, with lots of people commenting on how wonderful they thought the hospital was and how much it meant to them to have this new state of the art facility in south Bristol.
The first service to open at the hospital is our Urgent Care Centre, which replaces the South Bristol Walk-in Centre at Knowle West Health Park. The Urgent Care Centre will open to the public on 30th March at 8am, thereafter it will be open every day from 8am to 8pm. It will provide all the services of a Walk-in Centre but with the addition of being able to refer for on-site x-rays and other diagnostic tests. Other services at the hospital will open in a phase approach throughout April 2012.
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