Work starts on new £49 million Elective Centre at Southmead Hospital
![Jim Pierce, the deputy CEO of Darwin Group, handing over a ceremonial ground breaking spade to the team at Southmead Hospital.](https://www.darwingroup.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/creativeminds.00_02_51_13.Still010.png)
The Elective Centre is a joint project between North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) supported by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board and NHS England. It will enable an additional 6,500 operations to be carried out across the area every year.