South Bristol NHS Community Hospital is now open!

The new South Bristol NHS Community Hospital is now open to the public and has already started to treat its first patients!

The first service to open at the hospital was our Urgent Care Centre, which replaces the South Bristol Walk-in Centre at Knowle West Health Park. The Urgent Care Centre is open everyday from 8am to 8pm, it will provide all the services of a Walk-in Centre with the addition of being able to refer for on- site x-rays and other diagnostic tests. There is no appointment necessary, you can just turn up during opening hours and the Urgent Care Centre is able to treat both adults and children.

Other services at the hospital will open in a phased approach throughout April, these services are:

• Outpatients and day surgery – provided by North Bristol Trust
• Inpatient rehabilitation, day hospital, outpatients, day surgery, diagnostics, community dental treatment – provided by University Hospitals 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 at the new hospital, 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.

Since 2008, Bristol Community Heath has been lead provider up until the hospital opening, this has involved years of hard work and dedication from our project team who have liaised with and co-ordinated a range of partners, providers and other organisations involved in the service development, build and commissioning of the hospital, The team have turned blueprints into a state of the art hospital that will see around 145,000 patients annually and will help to save an estimated 80,000 patient journeys a year into central Bristol.