About the Royal United Hospital

The Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and Western Wiltshire.

The Trust occupies a 52-acre site about 1½ miles from Bath city centre and became a National Health Service Trust in 1992.

The Trust provides 687 beds and a comprehensive range of acute services including medicine and surgery, services for women and children, accident and emergency services, and diagnostic and clinical support services.

The Trust employs around 3,500 staff, some of who also provide outpatient, diagnostic and some day case surgery services at community hospitals in Bradford-on-Avon, Chippenham, Devizes, Frome, Malmesbury, Melksham, Paulton, Shepton Mallet, Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury. This fulfils part of the Trust's aim to provide high quality care to people in their local communities.

The hospital provides healthcare to the population served by five primary care trusts (PCTs), Bath and North East Somerset PCT, West Wiltshire PCT, Mendip PCT, Kennet and North Wiltshire PCT and South Gloucestershire PCT.

The hospital has 17 theatres - eight main theatres, one of which is a 24-hour emergency theatre, four-day surgeries, one eye theatre, one oral surgery theatre and three gynaecology/urology theatres.