About us
University Hospital Southampton NHS
Foundation Trust provides services to some
1.9 million people living in Southampton and
south Hampshire, plus specialist services
such as neurosciences, cardiac services and
children's intensive care to more than 3.7
million people in central southern England
and the Channel Islands.
UHS is one of the largest acute teaching trusts in
England with a staff of 13,000 and a turnover of more
than £1bn in 2020/21.
We are one of only two major trauma centres in the
South of England for both adults and children.
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.