Southmead Hospital

Southmead Hospital
North Bristol NHS Trust
The Brunel Building
Shown in Bristol
Geography
Location Southmead, Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°29′49″N 2°35′38″W / 51.497°N 2.594°W / 51.497; -2.594Coordinates: 51°29′49″N 2°35′38″W / 51.497°N 2.594°W / 51.497; -2.594
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; Major Trauma Centre
Beds 800
History
Founded 1902
Links
Website www.nbt.nhs.uk
Lists Hospitals in England

Southmead Hospital is a large public National Health Service hospital, situated in the Southmead ward in the northern suburbs of Bristol, England. It is 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 following its closure.[1] The hospital now covers 60 acres (24 ha).

History

The original workhouse building now used as a training centre
Dr Gibson-Hill examines a patient at Southmead Hospital in 1942

Early history

The hospital opened in 1902 as a 64 bed workhouse for poor sick people. By 1911 there were 520 beds. During the First World War, the facilities were used as an army hospital.[2] 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.[3] Notable former medical staff include Geoffrey Tovey, serologist and founder of the UK Transplant Service, which was formed in 1972 and was initially based at the hospital.[4]

Brunel building

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. Full approval for the project was given by the NHS South West board in January 2009.[5] A new building, which was designed by the Building Design Partnership and built by Carillion at a cost of £430 million, was procured under a Private Finance Initiative contract in 2010. The scheme brought all departments and services together under one roof.[6] Called the Brunel building, after Bristol engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it would have 800 beds, 24 theatres, patient gardens, a public square, a helipad and visitors' multi-storey car park.[7]

The accident and emergency department at Frenchay closed on 19 May 2014 and reopened at Southmead the next day.[8]

In early 2014, the second phase of the hospital redevelopment began with the demolition of the old main building[9] to enable construction work to begin on a Brunel Building extension, together with enlarging the area in front of the hospital.[10][11] The extension includes a new multi-storey car park for patients and visitors, a cycle centre with storage for 300 bikes, more shops, changing and shower facilities for staff and a community arts space.[12]

Following the 2014 opening of the Brunel building, there was a shortage of parking spaces owing to high demands from visitors, patients, and staff.[13] In 2014 and 2015, patients and visitors parked at the nearby Beaufort Way multi-storey car park.[14] Improvements were made in 2016, including the construction of a 400-space multi-storey car park next to the Brunel building.[15]

Archives

Records relating to hospitals within the Southmead Health Authority are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 39880).[16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "New hospital move". North Bristol NHS Trust. Retrieved 2 June 2013.
  2. ↑ "Southmead Hospital through the ages in never before seen online archives on new website". North Bristol NHS Trust. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  3. ↑ "Photographic archive of Southmead". Bristol Past. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Obituary: Geoffrey Tovey". The Telegraph. 20 December 2001. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "New hospitals for city approved". BBC. 16 January 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Bristol's 'super' hospital open for business". ITV News. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Design". North Bristol NHS Trust. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
  8. ↑ "Frenchay-to-Southmead hospital move for A&E cases". BBC News – Bristol. 19 May 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  9. ↑ "Work starts on clearing Southmead Hospital site for next phase". North Bristol NHS Trust. 23 July 2014.
  10. ↑ "Southmead Hospital Redevelopment". North Bristol NHS Trust. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "This is what the new car park at Southmead Hospital looks like now – six months from completion". Bristol Post. 3 September 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2016.
  12. ↑ "Southmead Hospital one year on: the highs and lows". Bristol Post. 28 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "Parking woes at £430m Southmead Hospital". Gazette Series. 5 June 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  14. ↑ "Hospital staff stripped spaces to help patients". Bristol Post. Archived from the original on 14 December 2014.
  15. ↑ Pennock, Lewis (16 August 2016). "Will opening of Southmead car park end street parking misery?". Bristol Post. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  16. ↑ "Bristol Archives online catalogue: Record view". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
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