Local community pharmacies in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire have supplied nearly 7,000 morning-after pills to women over a seven-month period following the NHS making it available free-of-charge in October 2025.
The development of a brand-new Thornbury Health Centre on the former Thornbury Hospital site has now been approved, providing a new home for Severn View Family Practice and Streamside Surgery.
An analytical waiting list model, developed by NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in collaboration with NHS South West colleagues, has been highly commended at the Royal Statistical Society Excellence Awards 2026 in the Florence Nightingale for Excellence in Health and Care Analytics category.
NHS staff from Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire attended a special reception at 10 Downing Street to celebrate the NHS’s 78th birthday.
In May and June local NHS organisations teamed up with BBC Radio Bristol to put on a Summer Wake Up Call Roadshow focused on all things health
More people in the South West will get the opportunity to train as a nurse as part of the Government’s commitment to fund more nurse degree apprenticeships and break down long-standing barriers into healthcare careers.
Coniston Medical Practice in Patchway is set for significant expansion works thanks to £916,566 Utilisation and Modernisation Funding from NHS England as well as £468,000 through S106 funding from the Filton Airfield housing development.
The NHS in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire is working hard to keep people safe during the planned resident doctors strikes 7am on Tuesday 7 April until 7am on Monday 13 April.
Two health centres in Bristol are set to be transformed into Neighbourhood Health Centres following £600k funding provided by the Department of Health and Social Care.
A groundbreaking ceremony has been held at the site of Weston-super-Mare’s new town centre health hub.
With around one in five young people experiencing mental health difficulties, Children’s Mental Health Week (9 to 15 February 2026) is being marked across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire by highlighting the support available to children and young people.
Throughout February 2026, more than 30 agencies across Devon, Cornwall and The Isles of Scilly, Bristol, Somerset, and Gloucestershire are campaigning with UK-wide child protection charity the Lucy Faithfull Foundation to prevent online child sexual abuse – as part of their Stop It Now campaign.