Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has recently benefited from major improvements including investment of £50 million. In 2005 new buildings opened, housing state-of-the-art departments and wards. Included within the new buildings are the new outpatients departments, children's centre, therapies unit, new endoscopy suite, assessment and rehabilitation centre, cardiology wards and coronary care unit, medical admissions unit and a large airy atrium where you can find a café, shop, comfortable waiting areas and health Information Room - for patients and visitors.
Specialist services found at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital are renal and haemo dialysis, paediatric oncology, inpatients neurology, rheumatology, dermatology and ENT are provided for the whole county.
There is a Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) situated in the main hospital concourse close to the Tower Entrance. There is a second PALS office in the Main Atrium in the new buildings. The PALS staff are available to give information, advice and support to patients and their families and friends about treatment and other issues or worries they may have. The PALS office can be contacted on Tel: 08454 226831.
Another service for patients and visitors, within the new buildings is a Health Information Room where patients and families can drop in and find out about a wide range of health issues, including health promotion, smoking cessation, healthy eating, and information about specific conditions.
Foster's Restaurant is open to visitors, it is a large pleasant self-service dining area selling hot and cold meals and snacks. Fosters can be found at the foot of the Tower. It is open from 8am - 8:30pm 7 days a week. Within the new buildings there is a modern attractive WRVS café, run by the WRVS, also providing a range of hot and cold snacks. There is café style seating and a comfortable seating area within the conservatory-style Atrium. The café is open 9:30am - 7pm Monday, Tuesday and Friday and 9:30am - 4pm Wednesday and Thursday.
One Stop Dispensing and Near Patient Pharmacist are two recent key developments to the way pharmacists work at the hospital which mean less waiting for patients and improvements to prescribing.
The Trust is Non-Smoking and has had complete Smoke-Free status (throughout its grounds as well as buildings) since March 2006.
