Nightingale Hospital Bristol

The specialist hospital based at the University of West of England Frenchay campus, will care for up to 1,000 people affected by COVID-19, and is due to accept its first patient week commencing 20 April 2020. The NHS Nightingale Hospital Bristol will enhance and support critical care capacity across the Severn network.

North Bristol NHS Trust has an established and resilient group operating model which could embrace a fifth hospital without detriment to the services the Trust currently provides. In addition, the site is situated within the Trust’s catchment area in Frenchay.

The Trust’s Chief Executive Officer, Andrea Young, will be the Accountable Officer for the hospital’s services, and Marie-Noelle Orzel, has been seconded to lead the management team, which is being assembled from a number of NHS bodies in the south west.

Elizabeth O’Mahoney, NHS Regional Director for the South West, said:

“This is the single biggest challenge facing our country for generations. We can learn from what is happening across the country and we want the NHS in the South West to be as well prepared as possible.

“The Nightingale Bristol will support our hospitals to care for critically ill patients as and when needed. We would prefer never to even admit a patient, but it will be in place if needed. We would ask that everyone in the south west follows the national recommendations to stay at home, observe social distancing, protect your local NHS and each of you will help save lives.”

Andrea Young, Chief Executive of North Bristol NHS Trust, said:

“We are deeply grateful to NHS staff and partners across the region for the support they are providing at this very challenging time. The Nightingale Bristol will enhance and support our critical care capacity across the South West and is a real collaborative partnership between all NHS providers, commissioners and partner agencies and organisations.

“On behalf of the NHS I want to thank the public for their extraordinary support in maintaining self- isolation if symptomatic or vulnerable and through social distancing. Those actions are definitely helping us manage this pandemic and we need everyone to sustain them."

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