Bristol Royal Infirmary

The Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) is a teaching hospital with close links to Bristol University and provides acute medicine and surgery, critical care, trauma, orthopaedic and accident & emergency services to the population of Bristol. It also provides the centre for cardio-thoracic services for the south west.

The BRI has been providing care since 1737.

The hospital comprises of three principal buildings, the original Old Building, the King Edward VII Building, which is opposite the Old Building on Upper Maudlin Street, and the Queens Building, which is also on Upper Maudlin Street.  A fourth, brand new building, the Bristol Heart Institute, is located behind the BRI and opened for patients in May 2009.