News Archive - 8

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has appointed the independent, external panel that will review its histopathology services following allegations of misdiagnosis.

Chair of the review group is Jane Mishcon, Counsel at Hailsham Chambers, London, a barrister with 30 years experience across a wide range of cases involving most clinical specialities.  She has chaired nine independent inquiries and her main area of practice is clinical negligence. Jane is ranked as a leading barrister in both the Legal 500 and Chambers UK.

5 August 2009

Artwork designed by patients at Bristol General Hospital will be on display at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trusts Education Centre this Thursday. ˜The Masks We Wear exhibition will be open from 11.00am to 3.00pm.

The central focus of the work on display is the ˜Mask Project created by previous patients as a way of expressing their experiences and time in hospital.

16 July 2009

Avon Breast Screening will be celebrating its 20th anniversary this Friday.

Since 1989 the service has completed approximately 450,000 screens on women between the ages of 50 and 70 within the Avon area.

6 July 2009

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has received mostly ˜good and ˜excellent scores in this years PEAT (Patient Environment Action Team) assessments, carried out by the National Patient Safety Agency.

19 June 2009

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is to launch an independent, external review into pathology services at the Trust following allegations of 15 cases of misdiagnosis in histopathology between 2000 and 2008.

18 June 2009

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has been given a clean bill of health by the Care Quality Commission after rigorous inspection of its infection control procedures.

The Care Quality Commission inspected hospitals within the Trust on 13 May 2009 and found no areas for concern.

Christine Perry, Assistant Chief Nurse and Director of Infection Prevention and Control, said:

8 June 2009

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £1.8 million by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for research into cleft lip and palate, and head and neck cancer.

 28-05-09

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust is welcoming a new non-executive director to its board.

Sarah Blackburn begins a three-year term of office on the Foundation Trusts board from 1 June 2009.

 13 May 2009

The majority of adult patients who have been an inpatient at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust are satisfied with their care, according to the Care Quality Commissions Patient Survey Report for 2008.

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust has published its declaration of compliance against the core Care Quality Commission standards for 2008/2009.

 View a copy of the core standards declaration