About UHS

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) provides hospital services for 1.9 million people living in southern Hampshire and specialist services – including neurosciences, respiratory medicine, cancer, cardiovascular, obstetrics and specialist children’s services – to more than 3.7 million people in central southern England and the Channel Islands. Southampton General Hospital is a designated major trauma centre serving the Wessex Region and Channel Islands and is one of only two places in the south of England to offer adults and children full onsite major trauma care provision.

UHS is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in England with a turnover of more than £1.3 billion in 2023/24.

Every year more than 12,000 staff see 750,000 people at outpatient appointments, deal with 150,000 attendances at the emergency department and treat 155,000 admitted emergency, inpatient or day case patients. In addition, the trust delivers more than 100 outpatient clinics across the south of England to keep services local for patients. Providing these services costs £2.7 million per day. 

UHS is consistently one of the UK’s highest recruiting trusts of patients to clinical trials.

The Trust is also a major centre for teaching and research in association with the University of Southampton and partners including the Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust.

UHS gained foundation trust status on 1 October 2011.

Our vision

World-class people delivering world-class care

Our mission

University Hospital Southampton: together we care, innovate and inspire

Our values

Our values are patients first, working together and always improving