Press releases & statements

From 5 July, all our wards will be operating new visiting hours on all wards, at both of our hospitals – from 9am to 9pm every day.

We appeal to smokers to take their cigarettes well away from our buildings and grounds

Our new hypnobirthing service is run by our midwives

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is taking the opportunity to highlight apprenticeship at Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals throughout the week.

A better career starts here at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Make a difference and become a healthcare scientist! During Healthcare Science Week we are inviting year 11s and above to meet our teams, take a tour and take part in interactive sessions.

We are delighted to announce that the CQC has rated Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (GHNHSFT) as ‘GOOD’ overall, following a comprehensive inspection of services last autumn.

A new powerful county-wide campaign launches today highlighting the need to keep Gloucestershire’s two Accident and Emergency Departments clear for real emergencies.

We're reducing the reliance on external agency nurses through our virtual winter ward.

It has been agreed that the provision of X-ray services in Gloucestershire will be revised on an interim basis to ensure that the most specialist services can continue to be provided safely. The temporary changes are a response to the high levels of radiographer vacancies being experienced in Gloucestershire.

This year's winners were announced on 29 November

Armed Forces Champions launching on Armistice Day

British actress Emma Samms MBE has officially launched a new cancer support service at GRH

S.H.E.D is a new group for fathers of babies who start their life at Gloucester’s neonatal unit

We are working with GlosFire this week to promote home fire safety

We are pleased to announce that Kier will be our partner for the £39.5m capital project

Volunteer therapists wanted to work with cancer patients

Members of the public will have an opportunity to glimpse hospital life through the eyes of a clinician as part of this year’s Annual Members’ Meeting (AMM).

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is currently recruiting caring, dedicated Registered Nurses to work at Gloucester Royal and Cheltenham General Hospitals.

We were highlighted by NHS England earlier this year as one of the Trusts that has seen the greatest improvements in identifying and treating sepsis.

We are looking for volunteer hair dressers and nail technicians to help cancer patients

Staff at the hospitals will be celebrating National Breastfeeding week by taking their specialised support services out on the road from 21st June.

We're looking for people to join our experienced team of volunteer therapists

The Gloucestershire Chest Fund has kindly donated 6 non-invasive ventilators

Concerned about allergies? Why not come along to a support group?

You are invited to Gloucestershire’s first ever DiAthlete Event run by Gavin Griffiths

Where to turn if you’re struggling with becoming a parent

Over Easter, local charity ‘Feed the Hungry’ donated around 1,500 chocolate eggs for our inpatients, our volunteers and our staff.

Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal Hospitals have been awarded £39.5m of capital funding to modernise hospital buildings, transform services and deliver even better patient care.

Our Chief Executive has been named one of the top 50 CEOs in the NHS in The Health Service Journal.

We are incredibly grateful to our staff for the continued commitment and professionalism that they’ve shown throughout the winter months.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) published has published the National Maternity Survey and the results reveal the responses from women who had given birth in February 2017.

We appeal to smokers to take their cigarettes well away from our buildings and grounds, and hope that they will consider others before they light up.

Six year old Thomas was the first patient at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital to be part of Harvey’s Gang when he visited our pathology labs with his brother Lewis and mum Lorraine on 20th December.

Panto actors dressed in bright and colourful costumes brought some festive cheer to children at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

Women suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) can now be looked after as day cases following an innovative move by the Trust designed to improve patient experience.

We are looking for new volunteer massage therapists to add to the team working in our Oncology Centre at Cheltenham.

It is Occupational Therapy Week between 6th - 12th November and we are taking the opportunity to promote the ways in which the OT profession improves the lives of our patients and service users.

Visitors to our sites this week will notice eye-catching new signs requesting that patients refrain from smoking on our sites, including in the grounds.

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A team of local hospital staff, led by their Chief Executive Deborah Lee, will face up to an epic army challenge on Exmoor this weekend to raise vital funds for local cancer patients.

We are proud to announce that we will be working with local family company Pulham’s Coaches to provide its newly revised 99 shuttlebus service.

We are currently working on a project looking at the experience of women using our maternity service.

An independent review into financial governance arrangements at our Trust has been published and shows that we are making good progress in returning the organisation to financial balance and ensuring that it is soundly governed.

Midwives at our Maternity Units are introducing initiatives to improve information for parents-to-be on the importance of being aware of their baby’s movements as we embrace national guidelines about reducing rates of stillbirth.

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) inspection report has praised staff for their compassion, kindness and overriding commitment to patient care.

Now you have the opportunity to ask your own questions of a prestigious panel of decision makers in our county, and get some answers.

Staff at our hospitals are celebrating National Breastfeeding Week this week as well as their success in achieving the UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative accreditation once again.

The Muslim Community in Gloucester has raised over £8000 for a new high-tech birthing bed for use in the Women’s Centre at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

Gloucestershire One You is a workplace health and wellbeing campaign which will be running throughout June for our staff.

We're pleased to be supporting this year’s Open Studios art trail which once again links together 73 different exhibition venues.