Southmead Hospital
| Southmead Hospital | |
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| North Bristol NHS Trust | |
Southmead Hospital Training Centre
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 Shown in Bristol
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| Geography | |
| Location | Southmead, Bristol, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°29′49″N 2°35′38″W / 51.497°N 2.594°WCoordinates: 51°29′49″N 2°35′38″W / 51.497°N 2.594°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | District General |
| Affiliated university |
University of Bristol, Faculty of Health and Social Care University of West of England |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Beds | 800 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1902 |
| Links | |
| Website | www.nbt.nhs.uk |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Southmead Hospital is a large hospital, situated in the northern suburbs of Bristol, England, and part of the North Bristol NHS Trust. A new 800-bed hospital building called the Brunel Building opened in May 2014, to provide services (including Accident and Emergency) transferred from Frenchay Hospital. Notable former medical staff include Geoffrey Tovey, serologist and founder of the UK Transplant Service, which was initially based at the hospital.
The hospital opened in 1902 as a 64 bed workhouse for poor sick people. By 1911 there were 520 beds.
During World War I, the facilities were used as an army hospital. The facilities reverted to a workhouse in the early 1920s and were then greatly extended to accommodate all the sick. In 1924, the Southmead Infirmary was built and was later renamed Southmead Hospital. The hospital has been greatly expanded and now covers 60 acres (240,000 m2).
Records relating to hospitals within the Southmead Health Authority are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 39880).
In 2005, a major expansion was planned which included moving most services from Frenchay Hospital to the Southmead site, with Frenchay being downgraded to a Community Hospital. The project was finished in late 2013 and opened in April 2014.
Full approval for the project was given by the NHS South West board in January 2009. In 2009, it was announced that Carillion was to design and build a new building, at a cost of £430 million, bringing all departments and services under one roof. Called the Brunel building, after Bristol engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it has 800 beds, 24 theatres, patient gardens, a public square, a helipad and visitors' multi-storey car park.
The accident and emergency department at Frenchay closed on 19 May 2014 and reopened at Southmead the next day.
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