@uhsft.bsky.social
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust includes Southampton General, Princess Anne Hospital and Southampton Children's Hospital.
Baby Elowyn is a new star on @BBCNews 👶🌟
Premature babies are being offered new protection against #RSV this winter.
@BBCSouthNews met Elowyn as they reported on the new jab, resulting from years of clinical research co-led at our hospital.
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9ned0526o
⚠️ Our Emergency Department (ED) remains under severe pressure.
If your condition is not life or limb threatening you will be facing a long wait or will be redirected to another urgent treatment service who can help you.
⚠️Our Emergency Department (ED) is currently under extreme pressure.
You can expected to be turned away if we feel your condition can be treated elsewhere after assessment.
Please only come to ED in the case of life-or-limb-threatening situations.
Meet Chrissie Jones, who looks after children and young people at @uhsft.bsky.social 🧒
She's researching how to better diagnose, treat and prevent infectious diseases, as a professor at @unisouthampton.bsky.social and part of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.
Watch her video 👇
Great to hear our surgeon Bhaskar Somani speak to Katie Martin on BBC Radio Solent this lunchtime 🎙️🌟
It's official! Our hospital leads the world for #ClinicalResearch into treatment of kidney stones.
Listen back on BBC Sounds from 2:18:30 📻
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002jtk1
#WeAreUHS
🧠 Improving care for people with neurodegenerative diseases
Meet Veena Agarwal - senior research physiotherapist and part of the @uhsft.bsky.social Research Leaders Programme.
She's investigating if tech can detect invisible symptoms 👇
https://www.soar-southampton.org/rlp-cohort-5/veena-agarwal
⚠️ Our Emergency Department (ED) is extremely busy. Please only come to ED in the case of life-or-limb-threatening situations.
Other services for urgent but non-life-threatening care are the Urgent Treatment Centres at RSH Hospital and Lymington New Forest Hospital, or NHS111.
UHS has been recognised as the world’s leading centre for kidney stone research 👏
Professor Bhaskar Somani and his team have published 205 studies, with 1,854 citations, pioneering safer, faster treatments for patients.
🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/46A23…
#WeAreUHS #HealthResearch
Join us for our annual members’ meeting on Wednesday 8 October from 2pm.
An opportunity to hear the presentation of the the 2024/25 annual report and accounts, explore our UHS showcase and share your views with your local governor representatives.
🔗 https://forms.office.com/e/ZDnErXL7sg
We're proud to work with LifeLab to host students from years 9–11 as part of a recent summer school, offering hands-on experience and expert insight into the world of medicine.
Students left feeling inspired and informed.
Find out more 👇
The UK government is testing the Emergency Alerts system on Sunday 7 September 2025 at 3pm.
Compatible mobile phones and tablets will receive an alert, make a loud siren-like sound and vibrate. You will not need to take any action.
Find out more at gov.uk/alerts.
Our new state-of-the-art regional sterile pharmacy has reached structural completion!
It will transform care across the South, with capacity to produce between 600,000 and 800,000 doses of medicine a year.
🔗 https://bit.ly/4mUMP1B
#WeAreUHS #SterilePharmacy
There’s still time to nominate your Experience of Care Hero for August.
Our most recent Experience of Care Hero is Sue Hodder. You can see what the person who nominated Sue had to say in the graphic below.
🔗 Nominate by Sunday 31 August: https://forms.office.com/e/Z0misQjAVS
#WeAreUHS
Around two million adults in the UK are living with a brain aneurysm.
Now, researchers at UHS and @unisouthampton.bsky.social are launching world-first genetic research 🏥🧬
It could help the NHS spot people at risk of rupture earlier – and save lives.
🔗 https://bit.ly/45Bqmk3
Detecting cancer sooner can increase the chances of better outcomes.
We are sponsoring the trial of a new test that could identify cancers in very early stages.
Over 4⃣5⃣0⃣ patients have taken part, including Ian Robinson from Fawley 📸
Learn more: www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/pr...
Congratulations to everyone involved with LifeLab on all the amazing achievements from the last year 🎉👏
Here's to another exciting year ahead!
Over a thousand families have now joined a newborn eye screening study at UHS 👏
This national research is evaluating an imaging device to help diagnose cataracts, a leading cause of preventable childhood blindness at birth.
Read more 👇
Surgeons at UHS are now using LithoVue Elite, a groundbreaking device developed by @bostonsci.bsky.social that monitors kidney pressure in real time during minimally invasive procedures. A huge leap for patient safety in treating kidney stones 👏
More 👉 bit.ly/4m0moXy
#Urology
🦻 Jacqueline Young, Clinical Scientist in Paediatric Audiology, is transforming hearing care for children — from using simulators to shaping family support, to leading NHS-wide research.
Find out more 👇
Happy 10th birthday to the Southampton Oxford Neonatal Transfer service (SONeT)! 🎉🚑👶
Since 2015 we've worked with @ouhospitals.bsky.social to support over 10,000 critically ill babies across 15 hospitals in Thames Valley & Wessex.
Find out more: bit.ly/4kssBuc
#NeonatalCare #SONeT10 #WeAreUHS
🎉 We've opened our new rehab unit for children with neurological injuries — a huge step forward in care.
Thanks to the incredible support of Robbie’s Rehab, in memory of Robbie Keville 🙏
More info 👉 bit.ly/4ntjQ5B
#RobbiesRehab #WeAreUHS #MakingADifference
📢 Received a Maternity Survey 2025 request? 📝💙
Whether by text or letter, your feedback matters!
Help us celebrate successes & improve maternity care at UHS 👶💬
🖊️ Fill it out & return it.
#MaternitySurvey2025 #YourVoiceMatters #MaternityCare
Great to see @laboursatvir.bsky.social cut the ribbon to officially open a new commercial research centre 📸
Working with regional partners, @uhsft.bsky.social will host the multi-million pound centre set to increase access to cutting-edge clinical trials.
🔗👉 research.uhs.nhs.uk/news/regiona...
Southampton is proudly turning #Red4Research ❤️
Teams at @unisouthampton.bsky.social and @uhsft.bsky.social are wearing red to celebrate everyone who plays a part in making progress possible.
Find out how you can get involved in @nihr.bsky.social research 👇
bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk/join
🏥 On Healthcare Estates & Facilities Day we’re saying a big thank you to the teams who keep UHS running 24/7.
From cleaning and catering to portering, security and maintenance – your work is vital, even if it’s not always visible. 🫧🧹🔧👩🔧🌱
Full video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Yd...
💙 #HealthEFMDay
One of our consultants, Zaed Hamady, on the BBC talking about his new trial, the safe-D study, looking into early detection of pancreatic cancer. 🔬
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sean Cleghorn’s wife, Allison, died just one month after being diagnosed with #PancreaticCancer.
A new @southamptonctu.bsky.social trial, sponsored by
@uhsft.bsky.social, will see if a new test can save lives by improving early detection of the cancer 👇
research.uhs.nhs.uk/news/new-blo...
Ukrainian medics with NICU team at UHS
👋 We’re proud to welcome clinicians from Ukraine to UHS for a 2-week training programme in paediatric rehabilitation.
They’re learning from our PICU, neuro, neonatal and ED teams to take skills back home and support children affected by war. 💙💛
👉 🔗 www.uhs.nhs.uk/whats-new/pr...
Today we hosted the Chair of Children and Young People’s Cancer Taskforce Caroline Dinenage MP at our unit in @uhsft.bsky.social
Dame Caroline Dinenage MP (right) is pictured here with Lead Nurse Jo Grout (left). (1/4).
UHS biomedical scientists in the lab celebrating biomedical science day
It’s #BiomedicalScienceDay and we’re shining a light on our amazing Microbiology team at UHS!
From agar art to plate streaking, they've been celebrating their vital role in healthcare 🧫👏
Hidden heroes of healthcare - their work makes a real difference for patients every day!
