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. The Royal United Hospital occupies a 52-acre site about 1.5 miles from Bath city centre.

The trust has 732 beds and a comprehensive range of acute services including medicine and surgery, services for women and children, accident and emergency services, and diagnostic and clinical support services.

The trust employs over 4,500 staff, some of who also provide outpatient, diagnostic and same-day case surgery services at local community hospitals in Bath & North East Somerset, Somerset and Wiltshire.

The hospital provides healthcare to the population served by four Clinical Commissioning Groups:

• Bath & North East Somerset CCG
• Wiltshire CCG
• Somerset CCG
• South Gloucestershire CCG

The trust provides a comprehensive range of acute services including medicine and surgery, services for women and children including maternity services, accident and emergency services, and diagnostic and clinical support services.

Services are provided across 27 wards and an additional 84 day case beds. The acute services provided includes: medicine, surgery, services for women and children, accident and emergency, diagnostic and clinical support services. The hospital has 17 theatres - eight main theatres, one of which is a 24-hour emergency theatre, four-day surgeries, one eye theatre, one oral surgery theatre and three gynaecology/urology theatres. The trust provides 1219 outpatient clinics per week and an additional weekly 354 community based outpatient clinics. Maternity services are provided at the Royal United Hospital and from five community services located in: Trowbridge, Chippenham, Frome, Paulton and Shepton Mallet. Women assessed as having low risks also have the option of a home birth.