Patients from across Weston-super-Mare have given a thumbs-up to a new digital system called askmyGP that allows patients to contact and get advice from their GPs online.

We are looking for local people from South Gloucestershire and North Somerset to join our Healthier Together Panel Steering Group.

Health and social care organisations are hosting a number of events across the area in celebration of National Apprenticeship Week

Dr Martin Jones, clinical director at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG, was recently interviewed by Tom Wright, editor of the Weston Mercury, about the Healthy Weston proposals.

Local residents are being invited to have their say on NHS proposals to create a stronger and more focused Weston Hospital at the heart of the local community.

Proposals to reform urgent and emergency care services at Weston General Hospital, as part of the Healthy Weston programme to enhance and transform healthcare services in Weston and the surrounding area, will proceed to full public consultation the Governing Body of Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG confirmed on 5 February.

The NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is today publishing proposals to reform urgent and emergency care services at Weston General Hospital, as well as setting out a longer term vision for its future as a thriving hospital at the heart of the community.

Joint statement from Dr Martin Jones, Medical Director at Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire CCG and Mr Adekoyejo Odutola, Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chair of Weston Hospital Medical Advisory Committee.

We are looking for a local person to join our Outpatients Programme Board to support the development of outpatient services.

More than 100 healthcare professionals and specialists from across the region have come together to help develop an improved way of delivering urgent and emergency care services.