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Information about the car parking situation at SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hospital: The discussion around car parking at the hospital needs to be put into some context. On the 54-acre site SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hospital has capacity for 450 inpatients per day, sees 250,000 outpatients per year and has a workforce in excess of 5,000. To cater for this, the hospital currently provides 2,177 spaces for car parking. There are 720 for patients and visitors which includes 20 drop-off bays, 115 spaces for blue badge holders and 14 spaces for charging staff and visitor electric vehicles, the remainder are for staff. Following the launch of the staff hopper bus, in March 2024, with changes in car parks 8 & 9, 40 parking spaces were transferred from staff to patients.

The three trusts that form the Acute Hospital Alliance - SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust - have embarked on a new programme to implement a new shared Electronic Patient Record (EPR) across the three organisations. With backing from the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board (BSW ICB), the significant investment over the 23/24 – 26/27 financial years will enable clinical staff within the region to digitally share patient information between Trusts.

SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ officially opened its new hospital landing site for air ambulances today. The helipad was funded by a £321,000 donation from the HELP Appeal, the only charity in the country dedicated to funding hospital helipads. Senior executives from the Trust, Wiltshire Air Ambulance, the HELP Appeal, and other stakeholders attended the event at which the charity’s Bell 429 helicopter and aircrew touched down.

The Trust gives notice that it will hold elections to the Council of Governors of the SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. Elections are to be held for nine Public Governor and five Staff Governor positions.

SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ has been granted permission to name the building that will be housing its new Imber Ward, the Elizabeth Building, in honour of the late Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth II. In a poll of staff the names Eilzabeth and Imber came out on top.