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    <title>Receive Spire Bristol Hospital news via RSS</title>
    <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/</link>
    <description>We provide an RSS feed so you can keep up with the latest developments at your local hospital</description>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital chooses Great Western Air Ambulance as its Charity of the Year</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Spire-Bristol-Hospital-chooses-Great-Western-Air-Ambulance-as-its-Charity-of-the-Year/</link>
      <description>The West’s largest private hospital has chosen the Great Western Air Ambulance as its charity of the year for 2012. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Lifescan screening moves to Spire Bristol</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Lifescan/</link>
      <description>The Bristol centre for Lifescan, the UK’s leading independent provider of CT health-checks for the biggest killer diseases, will be based at Spire Bristol Hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Life Support Training Courses at Spire Bristol Hospital </title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Training-Courses-at-Spire-Bristol-Hospital-/</link>
      <description>Spire Bristol Hospital is delighted to offer complimentary life support training to GP Practices within the South-West. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital launches search for it's first Charity of the Year</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Spire-Bristol-Hospital-launches-search-for-its-first-Charity-of-the-Year/</link>
      <description>Region-wide competition launched to be Spire Bristol Hospital's beneficiary for 2012. </description>
      <guid>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Spire-Bristol-Hospital-launches-search-for-its-first-Charity-of-the-Year/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bristol RFC launches new kit, sponsored by Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Bristol-Rugby/</link>
      <description>The 2011/12 season kit has been launched by Bristol RFC and Spire Bristol Hospital </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol consultant featured on Embarrassing Bodies</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Embarrassing-Bodies/</link>
      <description>Consultant Fraser Mcleod conducts cold coagulation of the cervix in Channel 4 programme Embarrassing Bodies. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hospital Director Saves Boy From Drowning</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Rob-Anderson---Florida/</link>
      <description>Spire Bristol Hospital Director Rob Anderson saves boy from drowning with CPR and calls for more people to learn life-saving skills. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital supports African nurses</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/FOAN-donation/</link>
      <description>Spire Bristol Hospital has recently made a donation to support the work of Friends of African Nursing. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital becomes a proud sponsor of key South West Events</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Spire-Bristol-Hospital-becomes-a-proud-sponsor-of-key-South-West-Events/</link>
      <description>Discover how Spire Bristol Hospital is supporting your local events. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>“Face Pain Made Me Suicidal” </title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Face-Pain-Patient/</link>
      <description>Patient tells how neurosurgeon at Spire Bristol Hospital ended nearly two years of agony </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gospel Choir Receives £1k Donation from Spire Bristol Hospital </title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Gospel-Choir-Supported/</link>
      <description>A Bristol gospel choir is practising hard for its launch concert following a £1,000 donation from the South West’s largest private hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ex-City Player Undergoes Cutting Edge Piles Treatment at Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Pile-Treatment-/</link>
      <description>Former Bristol City star Gerry Sweeney believes years of forcing himself to go to the toilet before playing is to blame for the painful piles which developed in recent years. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Extension at Spire Bristol Hospital Enhances Bristol’s Reputation as Foremost City for Complex Surgery</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Opening-of-New-Extension-at-Spire-Bristol-Hospital/</link>
      <description>Bristol will become one of the country’s leading cities for the provision of vital health services including complex life-saving cardiac and brain surgery as well as orthopaedics and other specialties when Spire Bristol Hospital’s new multi-million pound extension opens next week. </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Health Centre Gets a New Home</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Wallace-House/</link>
      <description>A multi-million pound building programme at Bristol Spire Hospital has enabled Wallace House Health Centre to relocate from Pembroke Road, to purpose built accommodation in The Glen at the top of Blackboy Hill, Clifton. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Couple Plan Cruise after Husband’s Loud Snoring Cured</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Snoring/</link>
      <description>After years being kept awake by her husband’s snoring, a woman is finally enjoying full nights of sleep after the condition was cured. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Top Ankle Surgeons Fly In To See West Technology And Techniques </title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Ian-Winson/</link>
      <description>World-leading ankle replacement technology and techniques developed in the West attracted many of the world’s leading foot and ankle surgeons to a symposium at Spire Bristol Hospital this week. &amp;nbsp; </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Clinical Job vacancies at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Job-vacancies-/</link>
      <description>Are you an ITU nurse&amp;nbsp;looking for a fresh start in 2010? </description>
      <guid>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Job-vacancies-/</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Keyhole Brain Surgery Cures Sufferer’s Facial Spasms</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Keyhole-Brain-Surgery/</link>
      <description>When Chris Williams decided to seek medical help over the facial spasms which were having an increasingly negative effect on his life, he was told he was simply tired or anxious. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New £2m Theatre 5 opens at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/New-2m-theatre-5-opens-at-Spire-Bristol-Hospital/</link>
      <description>A new £2 million operating theatre has opened at Spire Bristol Hospital, the South West’s largest private hospital. </description>
      <guid>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/New-2m-theatre-5-opens-at-Spire-Bristol-Hospital/</guid>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital brings cutting edge prostate treatment to the South West</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Green-light-laser/</link>
      <description>The South West’s largest private hospital is pioneering the use of a new non-invasive treatment for enlarged male prostate glands.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Electronic "hot pants" offer new hope to heart patients</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Angina-trousers/</link>
      <description>People with chronic heart disease are being given a new lease of life at Spire Bristol Hospital – thanks to a pair of “electronic trousers”. </description>
      <guid>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Angina-trousers/</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pioneering Knee Cartilage Surgery at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Knee-Transplants/</link>
      <description>A keen amateur sportsman is on the road to recovery after undergoing surgery in Bristol for what is thought to be the region’s first-ever knee cartilage transplant. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Significant Increase in Male Plastic Surgery at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Plastic-Surgery/</link>
      <description>“Man boob” reductions and “nose jobs” top list at South West’s largest private hospital </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital sponsors prostate cancer charity - Run for the Future</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Run-for-the-Future/</link>
      <description>Spire Bristol Hospital is sponsoring a running event to raise money for research into prostate cancer called ‘Run for the Future’.&amp;nbsp; Five thousand has been given £5,000 to support the Bristol charity. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bristol Physio becomes round the world yachtwoman</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Physio---round-the-world-yacht-race/</link>
      <description>Spire Bristol Hospital sponsors physio for international race </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nurse Consultant Kate Hoffmann is new Deputy Matron at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Kate-Hoffmann/</link>
      <description>Kate Hoffmann has been appointed deputy matron at Spire Bristol Hospital, the South West’s largest independent hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Long-serving Louise Daniel appointed Matron at Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Matron-appointment/</link>
      <description>Louise Daniel has been appointed matron at Spire Bristol Hospital, the South West’s largest independent hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bristol Hospital Offers Non-Invasive Test To Spot Early Signs Of Liver Damage</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Liver-Test/</link>
      <description>Bristol patients worried about the state of their liver through alcohol consumption, ill health and increasingly obesity are being offered a new non-invasive test to check for organ damage. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital Supports Male Cancer Awareness Month</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Cancer-Awareness-Month/</link>
      <description>Each year, over 37,000 men are diagnosed with testicular or prostate cancer with prostate cancer leading to over 10,000 deaths annually. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Surgical Technique for Shoulder Injuries Pioneered At Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Shoulder-Surgery/</link>
      <description>A pioneering new “knot-free” technique for shoulder surgery which reduces patients’ pain and recovery time has been unveiled by a Bristol hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nurse Consultant Kate Hoffmann Is New Deputy Matron At Spire Bristol Hospital</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Nurse-Consultant-Kate-Hoffmann-Is-New-Deputy-Matron-At-Spire-Bristol-Hospital/</link>
      <description>Kate Hoffmann has been appointed deputy matron at Spire Bristol Hospital, the South West’s largest independent hospital. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Matron Becomes “Lady With The Lamp” For International Nurses’ Day </title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Nursing-Day/</link>
      <description>Senior nursing team at Spire Bristol Hospital mark Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Matron and her senior nursing colleagues at Spire Bristol Hospital, The Glen, are stepping back in time today to celebrate International Nurses’ Day. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Spire Bristol Hospital Remains MRSA and C.Diff-Free</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Mrsa-and-CDiff-Free/</link>
      <description>Zero cases of the two infections recorded since audits began two years ago </description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Women are seeking more private cervical screens than ever before</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Cervical-screening/</link>
      <description>Spire Healthcare is witnessing more women than ever seeking advice on their gynaecological well-being. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rise in 60s and 70s cosmetic surgery</title>
      <link>http://www.spirehealthcare.com/bristol/News/Rise-in-60s-and-70s-cosmetic-surgery/</link>
      <description>More people than ever in their 60s and 70s are having cosmetic surgery </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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