Dene Barton Community Hospital

Dene Barton Community Hospital
Somerset Community Health
Shown in Somerset
Geography
Location Cotford St Luke, near Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°02′18″N 3°10′55″W / 51.0383°N 3.1819°W / 51.0383; -3.1819Coordinates: 51°02′18″N 3°10′55″W / 51.0383°N 3.1819°W / 51.0383; -3.1819
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Hospital type Community
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Beds 40
Links
Website Dene Barton Community Hospital
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

Dene Barton Community Hospital is a small NHS hospital located in Cotford St Luke, near Taunton, Somerset, England. It is managed by the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The hospital was established as a step-down unit (for people discharged from a district hospital but who still need hospital based rehabilitation) at a cost of £700,000 in 2002.[1] The in-patient facilities at the hospital were closed for the foreseeable future in October 2017 because of staffing shortages.[2]

Facilities

The hospital, whuch has 40 inpatient beds, offers facilities which include a Clinical Assessment and Treatment Unit, which cares for patients who need a short span of acute treatment and who would otherwise have needed to go to Musgrove Park Hospital; an X-ray department; a Community Rehabilitation Unit, which provides physiotherapy and occupational therapy services; an outpatients department, for visiting consultants and specialist clinicians providing speech and language therapy, pain clinic, haematology clinic, Parkinsons clinics as well as elderly care; and a musculoskeletal clinic for back, shoulder and knee problems.[3]

The hospital specialises in children, dementia, mental health, older people, sensory impairment, services for everyone and younger adults.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hospital Services (Somerset)". Hansard. 23 July 2002. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Dene Barton Hospital beds to remain closed". Europe Breaking News. 2 June 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Somerset NHS". Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust. Archived from the original on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
  4. ↑ "Care Quality Commission". Dene Barton Community Hospital. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
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