Our services
Musgrove Park Hospital
Yeovil Hospital
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Musgrove Park Hospital provides acute health services for its local population of around 340,000 people, and provides specialist services for a larger population of around 544,000 people. The hospital also provides emergency vascular services for Somerset and some parts of Dorset covering a population of around 800,000 people.
The hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency care and children’s and maternity services. It has a high dependency and intensive care unit, operating theatres and numerous medical and surgical inpatient wards. It has a fully equipped diagnostic imaging department that operates seven days per week, and a purpose-built cancer treatment centre which includes chemotherapy and radiotherapy facilities for both inpatients and outpatients.
Musgrove Park Hospital is built over one large area in a residential part of Taunton and has a range of linked or separate buildings. The hospital is made up of a range of buildings of different ages and use. It was the 67th general hospital to be authorised during World War II in 1941 and was used as an American Army hospital until it became an NHS hospital in 1951. The Queen’s building was the first new building to be opened in 1987, followed by the Duchess building which opened in 1995 and the Jubilee Building in 2014.
We are investing in our hospital buildings to create state-of-the-art buildings that offer patients safe, effective, and personalised care, based on the most advanced treatments, technology, and innovations in healthcare. As part of that we have opened a £11.5 million surgical decision unit that means patients can be assessed more rapidly and brings surgeons, emergency doctors and other healthcare professionals closer together in a modern environment.
Building work will begin shortly on a new £80 million surgical centre that will include state-of-the-art operating theatres, a critical care unit and an endoscopy suite and replace much of our 1940s buildings. We are also working with the national New Hospitals Programme on new facilities for our women’s and children’s services which are currently housed in some of the oldest areas of our hospital.
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Yeovil Hospital is an acute hospital run by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital cares for approximately 185,000 people, primarily in south Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip.
The hospital provides a full-range of clinical services, including general medicine, cardiology, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, trauma and paediatrics, with an emphasis on enhanced recovery – this means the hospital helps people to recover as quickly as possible so they can return home. The hospital also works hard to keep our waiting times as low as possible, meeting and exceeding the standards demanded of us through national targets.
Each year, the hospital sees around 20,000 emergency admissions, 3,500 elective admissions, and 18,000 day cases. More than 40,000 people attend the accident and emergency department each year, the maternity department delivers nearly 2,000 babies, and our intensive care unit looks after many hundreds of people.
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Yeovil Hospital is an acute hospital run by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital cares for approximately 185,000 people, primarily in south Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip.
The hospital provides a full-range of clinical services, including general medicine, cardiology, general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, trauma and paediatrics, with an emphasis on enhanced recovery – this means the hospital helps people to recover as quickly as possible so they can return home. The hospital also works hard to keep our waiting times as low as possible, meeting and exceeding the standards demanded of us through national targets.
Each year, the hospital sees around 20,000 emergency admissions, 3,500 elective admissions, and 18,000 day cases. More than 40,000 people attend the accident and emergency department each year, the maternity department delivers nearly 2,000 babies, and our intensive care unit looks after many hundreds of people.
Community hospitals
Mental health
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Our 13 community inpatient wards provide specialist services across Somerset for adult patients who need 24 hour inpatient care for a combination of medical and physical needs.
Two of our inpatient wards (at Williton and South Petherton community hospitals) provide a countywide stroke rehabilitation service where you may go following a stroke or a brain injury. Our inpatient wards at Bridgwater and West Mendip community hospitals also offer a countywide service for short term rehabilitation as part of our Home First service. Our community inpatient wards can also care for patients at the end of their lives.
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Our trust provides mental health services to all age ranges and supports people with a range of mental health problems whether they are mild, moderate or severe.
We support children and young people’s mental health through our schools projects across Somerset, and our child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). We support young people with specialist mental health needs including those affected by eating disorders across Somerset. Across the south west, we provide specialist CAMHS for young people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and inpatient care for young people requiring admission to a mental health ward (Wessex House).
For adults, we offer a range of community-based mental health services. Our taking therapies provide telephone and online resources for mild to moderate difficulties. For those with more serious health needs, our community mental health teams offer specialist care to support recovery. Patients who require intensive, daily support and who may otherwise be likely to be admitted to in-patient care are seen in our home treatment service. For patients who do require more intensive support as an inpatient are cared for one of our mental health wards, located primarily on four sites across the county, two of which specifically care for older people including those with dementia. We also operate an intensive dementia support service which cares for patients with dementia in their own home, with care and support for their carers as well.
In 2019, we received more than £13 million of funding to help transform adult mental health services. This funding means we can work more closely with GPs and address patients’ mental health problems much earlier. It will help break down the traditional barriers between services and ensure that the population of Somerset gets the right support and treatment as soon as possible, with services being provided within communities and as close to home as they can be. Plans for the service have been developed in partnership with previous patients with experience of Somerset’s mental health services who will be working alongside services to ensure they continue to grow and meet the county’s changing needs.
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Our trust provides mental health services to all age ranges and supports people with a range of mental health problems whether they are mild, moderate or severe.
We support children and young people’s mental health through our schools projects across Somerset, and our child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). We support young people with specialist mental health needs including those affected by eating disorders across Somerset. Across the south west, we provide specialist CAMHS for young people who are deaf or hard of hearing, and inpatient care for young people requiring admission to a mental health ward (Wessex House).
For adults, we offer a range of community-based mental health services. Our taking therapies provide telephone and online resources for mild to moderate difficulties. For those with more serious health needs, our community mental health teams offer specialist care to support recovery. Patients who require intensive, daily support and who may otherwise be likely to be admitted to in-patient care are seen in our home treatment service. For patients who do require more intensive support as an inpatient are cared for one of our mental health wards, located primarily on four sites across the county, two of which specifically care for older people including those with dementia. We also operate an intensive dementia support service which cares for patients with dementia in their own home, with care and support for their carers as well.
In 2019, we received more than £13 million of funding to help transform adult mental health services. This funding means we can work more closely with GPs and address patients’ mental health problems much earlier. It will help break down the traditional barriers between services and ensure that the population of Somerset gets the right support and treatment as soon as possible, with services being provided within communities and as close to home as they can be. Plans for the service have been developed in partnership with previous patients with experience of Somerset’s mental health services who will be working alongside services to ensure they continue to grow and meet the county’s changing needs.
Primary care
Community services
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We provide approximately a quarter of the GP practices in Somerset via our subsidiary Symphony Healthcare Services. Visit their website to learn more: Home – Symphony Healthcare Services
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Somerset NHS provides a wide range of community-based health services to the people of Somerset and specialist community dental services to the County of Dorset.
We support our local community to live well by preventing health problems from happening in the first place and supporting people to manage health problems when they do occur. We provide prevention programmes in the community, healthcare support in peoples’ homes, urgent care in our minor injuries units and inpatient care when patients need hospital treatment.
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Somerset NHS provides a wide range of community-based health services to the people of Somerset and specialist community dental services to the County of Dorset.
We support our local community to live well by preventing health problems from happening in the first place and supporting people to manage health problems when they do occur. We provide prevention programmes in the community, healthcare support in peoples’ homes, urgent care in our minor injuries units and inpatient care when patients need hospital treatment.