Rheumatology
Welcome to the Rheumatology Department Website at
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
(UHBW).
This information is regarding services based in Bristol.
For information regarding Weston please click here
Our mission statement is to work with our patients to enable
them to live well through multi-professional team working,
evidenced based-care, education and research and patient- centred
partnerships.
We see and treat patients with a range of inflammatory rheumatic
diseases and also run an osteoporosis service. We have a range of
specialist rheumatology nurses and allied health professionals who
provide highly skilled care for people with rheumatic diseases. We
have a fully equipped physiotherapy and occupational therapy
department and a day-case unit for infusions. Our active patient
advisory group helps us to deliver patient-focused care and
research.
We are an NHS England specialist centre for autoimmune rheumatic
disease (connective tissue disease and vasculitis) and rare bone
disease (osteogenesis imperfecta). We host a Regional MDT for
Tocilizumab in Giant Cell Arteritis. We also run services for
patients with rheumatic diseases moving from paediatric to adult
rheumatology, called transition services.
We are also co-located with researchers from the University of
the West of England (UWE) and University of Bristol (UofB) focusing
on original research into health related quality of life and
self-management of chronic diseases. We also work with the research
nurses from the Medical Research Team at UHBW, offering patients
the option to enrol into national disease registries,
patient-focused research projects and novel therapeutic trials.
We are a teaching hospital and host and support medical students
from the University of Bristol.
We are based in location B504 (Level 5 of the King Edward
Building at the Bristol Royal Infirmary) with satellite clinics at
South Bristol Community Hospital.
