Southmead Hospital

Southmead Hospital 2018-09-29 Person 5 5 0

My mum was diagnosed with disc decompression. During her stay at the hospital I was with her all the time. I am grateful for all the staff members for everything they did. Everybody was kind and they helped us as soon as we asked. Thank you!

Southmead Hospital 2018-09-03 Person 5 5 0

The only criticism of the hospital is the crazy numbering system. I was looking for Ward 6B. I was told to go up a staircase labelled with a huge letter "A". Baffled - but I found the ward and everything else about the hospital was superb.

Southmead Hospital 2018-08-31 Person 5 5 0

Fantastic hospital and staff. I was an inpatient for 3 weeks and found the hospital to be the opposite of what people fear hospitals to be. Clean, professional, great thought has gone into the layout and you feel there is a genuine attempt to cater for patients and visiting family emotionally. The two coffee shops, the piano, the opera singing, it was amazing and helped firm up my positivity and hope for recovery. Thank you very much for a job well done.

Southmead Hospital 2018-08-31 Person 5 5 0

yes I would recommend this hospital to friends and family.

Southmead Hospital 2018-03-11 Person 5 5 0

In my option, I found the hospital to be clean, the staff cheerful, professional and helpful, and the quality of the food was excellent. I can find no fault in any part of my stay with Southmead Hospital. We have the best hospital in the Country!

Southmead Hospital 2018-03-05 Person 5 5 0

I cannot thank the staff at Southmead enough for all the time, effort and care they gave me while I was admitted to have my brain tumour removed.

Southmead Hospital 2018-01-28 Person 5 5 0

The hospital was clean, the staff were friendly and the speed at which I was given appointments was phenomenal (3 appointments + an operation in 1 week).

Southmead Hospital 2018-01-05 Person 5 5 0

Ended up in A and E after being hurt by a large animal on the rampage. I was thrown in the air, somersaulted over and landed on my head and twisted at an odd angle on to my neck. I was knocked out briefly and when I came to my friend was calling an ambulance, she was told they were busy and there would be a long wait, so we said leave it and we'll make our own way to Southmead Hospital. I didn't want to be a bother so we went to the out of hours at Cossham instead. I was still headachy, vomiting, seeing stars and feeling very nauseous and dizzy as well as abdominal pain where I'd been rammed with force (a lovely large bruise was forming by this time) So the out of hours doctor wrote a letter for Southmead A and E basically telling them what injuries and symptoms I had (we looked!) and told us we should go to the hospital. So we did. I gave the letter to the receptionist at Southmead and we were told to take a seat. I was still vomiting so hoped we'd be seen quickly because I really felt poorly. We sat there for 4 hours watching people coming in behind us and being seen before us and then going home. My friend asked the receptionist when they thought we'd be seen and we were told they didn't know. About half an hour later a nurse called us in to a room and she seemed rather annoyed we were there, she didn't make eye contact with me, like i said she seemed cross with me and didn't seem concerned about my symptoms after she read the letter, didn't do any examination but gave me some paracetamol and asked me to wait outside. We waited for another 3 hours, thankfully I'd stopped vomiting in this time and the paracetamol had helped with the headache. My friend spoke to the receptionist again and they said they didn't know how much longer we would have to wait, there were people still coming in behind us and going straight through to see a doctor (we saw his badge when he came out) so we weren't really sure why we were sitting there at all. My friend had to go to work in a few hours so we left and she dropped me home before going home herself and it was literally 5 am at this point. I was quite sore and sick for a little while but I kept taking Ibuprofen and paracetamol and I googled about dealing with the neck and abdominal pain which I did have for a long time but I don't really notice it now. I just wanted to apologise to the staff in A and E because we were only there because the Cossham out of hours doctor told us to go. I'm sorry we made such nuisances of ourselves and caused an inconvenience. I know you all work really hard and do an amazing job under such stress and it really didn't help you having one more person you'd rather not have to deal with. I think I won't be so quick to come to Southmead A and E next time something happens. I am quite embarrassed to be honest so glad this is anonymous, but I did feel like I should apologise.

Southmead Hospital 2017-10-19 Person 5 5 0

What an amazing facility and we are so lucky to have an institution as great as the NHS.

Southmead Hospital 2017-10-02 Person 5 5 0

the nursing staff brilliant.they work so hard and should be paid much better take note mr hunt.a big tank you to the indian nurse tereasa and the lovely fran both staff nurses.