\n Retrieve is funded by NHS England South West and takes patients between hospitals in the South West that need specialist care.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was set up to help patients access treatment not available in the hospital they were in.\n<\/p>\n
\n The service launched in 2020 and then became a 24-hour service in 2024, following its busiest year ever.\n<\/p>\n
\n That year, it moved to a new Bristol location near Aztec West.\n<\/p>\n
\n It shares this base with SoNAR and WATCh, the neonatal and paediatric critical care transfer services.\n<\/p>\n
\n The consultant-led team is made up of clinical staff and has its own vehicles and equipment, with bases in Bristol and Launceston in Cornwall.\n<\/p>\n
\n Dr Scott Grier, clinical director for the service, said: “I am incredibly proud of everything our team has achieved over the past five years.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We knew when we launched Retrieve would be a game-changing service for people in the South West and we have dramatically improved the care patients receive during transfer.\n<\/p>\n
\n “As one of the first services to provide this kind of care to adult patients in England, we have led the way nationally and shown what can be achieved.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We could not have done this without the support of our NHS England colleagues and our host UHBW.”\n<\/p>\n
\n In the last year, Retrieve received more than 1,500 referrals and completed more than 1,200 transfers, which would previously have been undertaken by the regional 999 ambulance service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retrieve is funded by NHS England South West and takes patients between hospitals in the South West that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-586117","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\/115591635724247827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586117","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=586117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}