All males over the age of 40 and living in Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire are being urged to take up the offer of the free NHS Health Check. Coming forward when invited is important as the check can help to identify and diagnose conditions that could be quietly developing but not…
Bath’s Sulis Hospital is expanding its regional reach with a new satellite outpatient clinic at Frome Medical Practice, with the first clinic on 23 June 2025. This development will bring expert-led consultations across a range of specialties directly to residents of Frome and the surrounding area, offering greater choice, faster access, and reduced travel time…
Patients being cared for at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust are being given a reason to smile thanks to new mouth care boxes that have been rolled out across wards to support their oral hygiene. Mouth care is an integral part of a person’s health and wellbeing. Often staff are required to…
More than 5,000 patients at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust have been helped to get home earlier and supported with care in the community thanks to the hard work of the Trust’s Hospital at Home team. Since starting in 2021, the Hospital at Home service has helped the people we care for…
On Tuesday 27 May, a state-of-the-art new specialist surgical centre located just outside of Bath opened its doors to NHS patients from Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW). The Sulis Orthopaedic Centre (SOC) will perform an additional 3,000 planned orthopaedic operations on suitable NHS patients in BSW every year. This will help…
Researchers at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust are involved in a national study to develop a tool to guide clinicians when they are assessing people suffering symptoms which could be caused by both migraines and transient ischaemic attack, also known as ‘mini-stroke’. The new assessment tool will help to predict whether a…
The highest quality of care, compassion and innovation was recognized at the recent annual staff awards ceremony for the Royal United Hospitals Bath (RUH) NHS Foundation Trust. Winners of the You Matter Awards were selected from over 200 nominations in seventeen categories, thanking staff for their exceptional dedication to people they care for, the people…
Local people are being urged to help support the development of new medical treatments which could transform people’s lives by getting involved with research at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust. Bath resident Willm Mistral is just one of many people already taking part in research at the RUH. Willm joined a diabetes…
PHOTO: The RUH’s Maternity Triage Team, which won the top award. The team are pictured with Chief Nursing Officer Toni Lynch (in red). Staff who have gone above and beyond to improve the experience of the people they care for at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust have been celebrated at a special…
Bath and North East Somerset’s second annual regional dementia awareness conference will be held in Peasedown St John next Tuesday Organised by the Peasedown Community Trust and sponsored by law firm Stone King, the conference will feature keynote speakers, information stalls, networking, a tasty lunch and an opportunity to meet charity leaders and experts working…
