The Princess Royal Bristol Surgical Centre at Southmead Hospital has capacity to carry out 6,700 procedures each year.

Maria Kane, chief executive of Bristol NHS Group - the partnership between the two Bristol hospital trusts - said: ‘We are so proud to be offering surgery in this fantastic new facility to benefit local patients.

‘This centre significantly increases our surgical capacity so that we can see more of our patients sooner and demonstrates what we can achieve by working together across Bristol and Weston.'

The centre is a joint project between North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, supported by Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB.

The surgical centre has four operating theatres along with X-ray facilities, medirooms where patients are admitted before surgery and for recovery, and a 40-bed inpatient ward.