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The trust submitted a bid in 2014 to take over Weston Area Health NHS Trust, which had announced that it was not viable in its present form, [1] but the bid was not successful. [2] In 2018, the trust announced plans to merge with Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health trust. [3] The merger completed in 2020. [4]
The trust was formed from the merger of Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust on 1 April 2020. [2] [3] [4]In September 2021 it opened a new diagnostic centre on the outskirts of Taunton near the M5, operating in partnership with Rutherford Health.
The trust was formed in 2008, taking over the role from the Somerset Partnership NHS and Social Care Trust which had been operating since 1999. [1] It merged with Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust to form Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in 2020. [2] [3] The trust developed out of the institution established by the Bridgwater Infirmary in ...
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust added that while pressures had been alleviated, it remains "extremely busy" at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and Yeovil District Hospital.
Hospitals in the West are experiencing critical incidents due to high levels of flu and norovirus. Services are "extremely busy" at hospitals in Gloucestershire, Yeovil and Taunton.
On 1 December 2007, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust became a Foundation Trust. As a Foundation Trust, the hospital was given greater freedoms over its finances and the 5,200 people who have registered as members were given a greater role to play in the future direction of the hospital. [10] The Beacon Centre for cancer services opened in May ...
The hospital was erected between 1809 and 1812 in East Reach in the centre of Taunton. [1] [2] The hospital was managed along with other hospitals in Taunton. and in 1968 the management committee was re-named the West Somerset Hospital Management Committee. [1] The main block of the hospital was Grade II listed in 1975. [3]
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust submitted a bid in 2014 to take it over, [9] but this was rejected in October 2015 by the NHS Trust Development Authority. [10] North Somerset clinical commissioning group (CCG) stated in 2017 that the hospital and Weston Area Health Trust should become "part of a larger organisation". [11]