[1] It is the area's major accident and emergency hospital, with a helicopter landing point on the adjacent Lansdown Cricket Club field.

The Casualty Hospital was founded in response to the serious injuries sustained to labourers working on the buildings which were being constructed in the city.

[2] The combined institution opened in a building designed by John Pinch the elder in Beau Street as the Bath United Hospital in 1826.

[12] In 2008, plans were revealed for a £100M redevelopment of the pre-Second World War RUH North buildings, which would include an increase in single-occupancy rooms in line with Government targets.

[19] Sulis Hospital at Peasedown St John, about 6 miles (10 km) south of the Combe Park site, provides both NHS and privately-funded treatment and operates as a subsidiary of the RUH.

[21] The hospital provides acute treatment and care (including Accident & Emergency) for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and west Wiltshire.