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Our Quality Account
Friday, 29 June 2012 15:18
Our Quality Account 2011/12 We are pleased to publish our Quality Account for the 2011/12 year. This document shares information about the quality of our services and measures of that quality. It also sets out our top priorities for quality improvement in the year ahead. Our Quality Account provides a wide ranging view of all the services we provide, with a special focus on: Patient Safety Clinical Effectiveness…
Its Carers Week!
Monday, 18 June 2012 10:28
Carers Week starts today, 18th June 2012. Its one of the UK's largest annual campaigns and aims to celebrate and recognise the six million unpaid carers in the UK who provide care for someone who is ill, frail or disabled. This care can make a real difference to peoples lives and wellbeing. The theme for this years Carers Week is "In Sickness and in Health"…
Are you TB aware?
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:30
Tuberculosis or TB as it's commonly known has affected people all over the world for thousands of years. TB is infectious and spreads from person to person through the air. Infection from TB can damage any part of the body but most commonly it affects the lungs. When a person with TB in their lungs coughs, sneezes or spits they propel the germs that cause…
Our Community Heart Failure Service - now city wide
Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:48
Our community heart failure service is now available city wide across Bristol and the service also covers south Gloucestershire. Staffed by our dedicated heart failure nurse team working with specialists including cardiology consultants, we can manage the care of heart failure patients in our community based clinics. Our excellent service is committed to providing high quality compassionate care in the community. Speaking of our community heart failure…
South Bristol NHS Community Hospital is now open!
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 12:12
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…
The New South Bristol NHS Community Hospital
Tuesday, 27 March 2012 09:51
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,…
Public open afternoon at South Bristol NHS Community Hospital
Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:02
The new South Bristol NHS Community Hospital is nearly ready to open it's doors to patients, but before it does, you can come and have a look around the building! Come along to the public open afternoon on Tuesday 20th March, you can drop in anytime between 2pm and 6:30pm and take a self guided tour of the new hospital. This is a great opportunity for you…
New hospital is nearly ready to open its doors!
Monday, 20 February 2012 12:32
The keys to the long awaited South Bristol NHS Community Hospital have now been handed over to NHS Bristol, marking the end of two years of building and construction work. The next few weeks will be a busy time for the South Bristol Community Hospital Implementation team, led by one of our very own members of staff who is managing and leading the team. Now…
New hospital needs your favourite south Bristol view!
Monday, 06 February 2012 16:10
Unique beauty spots and places with special sentimental value to south Bristol people are being sought by two artists making artwork for The Connect project which forms part of the public arts programme for the new South Bristol NHS Community Hospital, due to open in April. The artists, Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio, are keen to hear from anyone who can point out a personally…