Southmead Hospital in spring 2014. The hospital had extensive grounds some of which were marketed for sale. A Save Frenchay Hospital campaign was fronted by Steve Webb, the local Member of Parliament. The campaign's main arguments were that Frenchay Hospital afforded greater possibility for expansion than the Southmead site and that emergency access was easier due to its proximity to the motorway. An extension was built at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children to accommodate child services which moved from Frenchay in March 2014, including neuroscience, scoliosis surgery, burns and plastic surgery, bringing all inpatient child services in Bristol to one location. The accident and emergency department was transferred to the new Southmead Hospital on 19 May 2014, following local advertising of the change. The Save Frenchay Hospital campaign group pressed for a community hospital to be opened on the site. In 2015, the site which had extended to , was reduced to with the construction of 490 homes, a school and a clinic. See also Bristol Royal Infirmary Healthcare in Bristol List of hospitals in England References External links The History of Frenchay Hospital - Written by James Briggs Hospital buildings completed in 1921 NHS hospitals in England Teaching hospitals in England Hospitals in Bristol Tuberculosis sanatoria in the United Kingdom