Partners

ARC West is hosted by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, and the partnership includes local providers of NHS services and NHS commissioners, universities, local authorities, voluntary sector and patient and user organisations, and the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).

NHS partners

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust provides services for people with mental health needs, drug or alcohol dependency and people with learning disabilities. It covers Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire and provides a specialist service throughout the South West.

Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board

The Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board is a statutory body which brings together NHS organisations with local authorities and other partners to work to improve population health and establish shared strategic priorities.

Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for the day-to-day running of the NHS. The NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB takes account of population needs, arranges for the provision of services and manages the NHS budget.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust was formed in October 2019. This followed the merger of 2gether NHS Foundation Trust and Gloucestershire Care Service NHS Trust, to provide joined up physical health, mental health and learning disability services.

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the country and provides high quality acute elective and specialist care for a population of more than 612,000 people. Its hospitals are district general hospitals with a great tradition of providing high quality hospital services. It was one of the UK’s first foundation trusts.

Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (NHS Gloucestershire) is responsible for planning and buying services to meet the health needs of local people. It also brings partners together to ensure the county’s NHS provides the best possible care.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest healthcare providers and employers in the south west, with around 2.5 million patient contacts a year. They provide healthcare to the people of Swindon and the surrounding areas, offering the latest treatments and care in hospital, in the local community and in people’s own homes.

North Bristol NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching trusts in the country and serves the population of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. Their internationally renowned specialist areas include neurosciences, renal, orthopaedics, major trauma, urology, plastic surgery and neo-natal intensive care.

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

The Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust provides acute treatment and care for a catchment population of around 500,000 people in Bath, and the surrounding towns and villages in North East Somerset and Western Wiltshire.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust is a dynamic group of hospitals in the heart of Bristol and Weston-Super-Mare, with over 100 clinical services across ten sites. They offer care to the people of Bristol, Weston-Super-Mare and the South West, and have an international reputation for cardiac surgery, paediatric services, oncology and bone marrow transplantation. They are the largest centre for medical training and research in the South West.

Academic partners

University of Bath

The University of Bath is one of the UK’s leading universities with an international reputation for quality research and teaching. Its mission is to deliver world class research and teaching, educating its graduates to become future leaders and innovators, and benefiting the wider population through our research, enterprise and influence.

University of Bristol

The University of Bristol is internationally renowned and one of the very best in the UK, due to its outstanding teaching and research, its superb facilities and highly talented students and staff. Its students thrive in a rich academic environment which is informed by world-leading research. It hosts the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research.

University of Gloucestershire

The University of Gloucestershire is a diverse, vibrant community of 12,000 students and 1,600 staff. The university is based across three campuses in Cheltenham and Gloucester. Organised over eight academic Schools – Art and Design; Business, Education; Health and Social Care; Liberal and Performing Arts; Media; Natural and Social Sciences; and Sport and Exercise. The university has long excelled in education, media, sport and fine art.

University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)

UWE Bristol is one of Britain’s largest universities with a consistent reputation for high graduate employment, quality in teaching and growth in research. It is at the heart of dynamic partnerships that deliver real impact in the world. UWE hosts the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, the largest academic centre for multi-disciplinary robotics research in the UK.

Local authority partners

Bath and North East Somerset Council

Bath and North East Somerset Council makes all kinds of decisions, from planning and transport, to housing and social care, that impact on residents’ physical and mental health. It works with communities to improve their health and wellbeing and to make planning decisions that impact communities’ health in a positive way.

Bristol City Council

The council plays a vital role in the health community as public health is part of its remit. Its role is to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population of Bristol. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and it focuses on the population as a whole, not on individual patients or diseases.

Gloucestershire County Council

Gloucestershire County Council is responsible for improving and protecting the health and wellbeing of the local community. A key focus of public health in Gloucestershire is reducing inequalities in health between different groups of people and communities.

North Somerset Council

North Somerset Council is responsible for public health services in the area, including preventing disease and promoting healthy living. They work to improve and protect the health and wellbeing of everyone in North Somerset, with a focus on those with the poorest health.

South Gloucestershire Council

South Gloucestershire Council has responsibility for public health in its area, including encouraging healthy lifestyle choices, smoking cessation and vaccination uptake.

Swindon Borough Council

Improving the health and wellbeing of local people is a priority for Swindon Borough Council, working with partners to improve services and reduce health inequalities across the Swindon area.

Wiltshire Council

Public health works to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of Wiltshire’s population. It aims to protect the local population from ill health, prevent disease, promote healthy lifestyles and reduce health inequalities.

Other partners

Bristol Health Partners

Bristol Health Partners exists to improve the health of those who live in and around Bristol and to improve the delivery of the services on which they rely. It also acts as a mechanism for change in the Bristol health and care community and city region. It is a strategic collaboration between the city’s four NHS bodies, two universities and its local authority.

DECIPHer IMPACT Ltd

DECIPHer IMPACT Ltd, trading as Evidence to Impact, has been set up to roll out and disseminate health related programmes from the University of Bristol such as ASSIST, a smoking prevention intervention which aims to reduce adolescent smoking.

IRISi Ltd

IRISi Ltd is a not-for-profit company set up to deliver evidence-based support interventions to benefit survivors of domestic violence and abuse and to help reduce the associated societal burdens. Its first product is the IRIS intervention, a general practice-based domestic violence and abuse training, support and referral programme.

One Care

One Care exists to ensure that the heart of general practice, so valued by patients, survives and continues to provide comprehensive, whole-person healthcare to individuals and their families. Through collaboration, One Care provides the scale, innovation and leadership to evolve services so that general practice is invigorated and thrives into the future.

West of England Academic Health Science Network

The West of England Academic Health Science Network is a diverse network of partners working collaboratively to put innovation at the heart of healthcare, to improve patient outcomes and contribute to wealth creation. It aims to do this by translating research into practice, and developing and implementing integrated health care services.