A formal review process over the next year will determine the definitive locations for specific medical specialties.
"The piece of work around where we think things should be is going to be carried out over the next 12 months," Kane said.
Enhanced localized care infrastructure could ultimately reshape the necessity for multiple emergency departments in the region.
"If we carry out a 10 year plan… if we are preventing things, if we have better investment in community services… that would mean the need for two or three EDs is not the same and we could therefore make that," Kane said.
Meanwhile, psychiatric support frameworks have been integrated across the merged facilities to manage rising emergency admissions.
"They would be seen by someone from my team, they would have a psycho-social assessment," said Ben Ford, Lead Nurse.
The unified framework allows immediate internal cross-referrals to specialized therapeutic units at the Bristol Royal Infirmary.
"More importantly, as we merge, they can access some of the other services we have got," Ford said.
Patients requiring advanced psychiatric management can also be transitioned smoothly to external partnership networks.
"We have got Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) services in the BRI...
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we have also got the ability to refer on to Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership Trust," Ford said.
