\n The Princess Royal Bristol Surgical Centre, at Southmead Hospital, is now fully operational and is expected to deliver an additional 6,700 planned procedures each year.\n<\/p>\n
\n The \u00a349.9 million centre was funded by NHS England to help reduce the elective surgery backlog that built up during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n<\/p>\n
\n Maria Kane, chief executive of Bristol NHS Group, said: “We are so proud to be offering surgery in this fantastic new facility to benefit local patients.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This centre significantly increases our surgical capacity so that we can see more of our patients sooner and demonstrates what we can achieve by working together across Bristol and Weston.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The centre is a joint project between North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, supported by the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board.\n<\/p>\n
\n Named in honour of Princess Anne, the facility includes four operating theatres, X-ray services, medirooms for pre- and post-surgery care, and a 40-bed inpatient ward.\n<\/p>\n
\n The first inpatients arrived from the Orthopaedic Ward in the Brunel building on August 22, with the first surgeries taking place on August 26.\n<\/p>\n
\n Kenneth Middleton was the first patient admitted to Rowan Ward.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Middleton said: “It\u2019s an amazing building, and as I was coming in I felt it didn\u2019t have the feeling of a hospital, it\u2019s a bit like a five-star hotel.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It appears, from what I have seen, to be very relaxing.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Anaesthetist Jo Adelaine, who works at NBT, also experienced the centre first as a patient.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Adelaine said: “I did a walkaround when the centre was being built, and it looked pretty impressive then, but it\u2019s a thousand times better now that we are in here.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The building is beautiful and the kit inside the building is great.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is fantastic that X-ray is right by the ward for post-op scanning.\n<\/p>\n
\n “All the nurses and healthcare assistants here have been amazing, they can\u2019t do enough for you.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Sister Helen Jones led the move into the new ward.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Jones said: “It\u2019s really exciting to have been involved in the creation of the new Bristol Surgical Centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n “As a team we have been involved with the design of the rooms, considering what a patient will need before and after recovery and it is lovely to now see it open.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Tim Whittlestone, chief medical and innovation officer at Bristol NHS Group, said the centre supports the area\u2019s wider healthcare goals.\n<\/p>\n
\n Professor Whittlestone said: “Improving the care of patients across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is a fundamental part of our Joint Clinical Strategy and it is great to see it coming to fruition through the additional capacity created by The Princess Royal Bristol Surgical Centre.”\n<\/p>\n
\n David Jarrett, chief delivery officer at the Integrated Care Board, said the centre is already making a positive impact.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Jarrett said: “For local people, it means shorter waits for treatment and a much smoother experience of care.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is an important step in our ongoing commitment to provide high-quality, sustainable services that improve the health and wellbeing of our communities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Princess Royal Bristol Surgical Centre, at Southmead Hospital, is now fully operational and is expected to deliver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-472237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115312782669657026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}