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Southmead Hospital to become centre of excellence in huge revamp of stroke services
Residents asked for their views after health chiefs hear survival rates and care levels depend on where you live and the time of day
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Southmead Hospital (Image: Bristol Post)
Southmead Hospital is set to become a centre of excellence for treating stroke patients in a massive shake-up of services.
Sufferers would be rushed to the north Bristol site instead of their nearest hospital under proposals health chiefs say will save between 12 and 15 lives a year and prevent dozens from becoming disabled or needing long-term care.
Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General go weeks without a single coronavirus patient
People are still being urged not to get complacent
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A Bristol hospital trust had a two-week streak in May without admitting a single coronavirus patient, data suggests.
Government figures show that University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Weston General, was caring for zero covid patients as of last Tuesday (May 25).
A five-month-old baby with a spinal disorder has become the first patient in England treated with a potentially life-saving drug on the NHS. Arthur Morgan was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) earlier this month. The infant received one-off US gene therapy Zolgensma at Evelina London Children's Hospital on 25 May. The drug has a price tag of £1.79 million per dose and has been called the most expensive drug in the world. It was made.