Healthcare in Bristol
Healthcare in the city of Bristol, England and the surrounding area is largely provided by the National Health Service (NHS).
Until July 2022, this was provided through the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire clinical commissioning group.
Facilities include a large teaching hospital – Bristol Royal Infirmary – which offers nationally commissioned specialist cardiac, cancer and children's services from its city-centre campus to patients in the southwest of England and beyond.
In 1974 the boards were abolished and replaced by Regional Health Authorities, with Bristol coming under the South Western RHA.
The PCTs were managed by the South West strategic health authority from 2002 until 2013, when services were transferred to the new Bristol clinical commissioning group (CCG).
[5] The three CCGs merged in April 2018 to form the Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG[6] which was abolished in 2022.
[citation needed] Out-of-hours services are provided by Brisdoc,[18] who also took over Bishopston Medical Practice in February 2018 after the partners resigned.
It also runs Broadmead Medical Centre, Northville Family Practice, the homeless healthcare service and the GP support unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary.
[20] A pilot scheme called the 'digital minor illness referral service' was launched in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire in July 2019.
General practitioners are encouraged to refer patients with low-acuity symptoms to community pharmacies, which are paid £14 for each consultation.
Bristol Mental Health is a consortium led by Avon and Wiltshire, working in partnership with nine third sector providers: Second Step; Missing Link; Off the Record (charity) Bristol; the Nilaari Agency; Stand Against Racisim and Inequality; Knowle West Health Park; Wellspring Healthy Living Centre; Southmead Development Trust; and Brunelcare.
The CCG has a contract with each provider for each service bundle: Bristol Mental Health commenced operation in October 2014.
[28] The North Bristol NHS Trust, in partnership with the Barnardo's charity, had provided the service from March 2009 to 2016.
In 2015 the North Bristol NHS Trust announced that it would not continue the contract beyond March 2016, in order to focus on "acute and hospital based care".
The buildings, estate and therapeutic regime designed by Edward Long Fox was based on the principles of moral treatment which was fashionable at the time.
