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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 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 ...
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.
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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]
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 ...
She was appointed Chief Executive of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust in February 2015. [3] In September 2016 the Trust was one of 16 acute hospitals named by the Department of Health as a global digital exemplar for the NHS. In December 2017 the Care Quality Commission rated the trust "Good" overall, and outstanding in its care.
Somerset formed a sustainability and transformation plan area in March 2016 with Dr Matthew Dolman, the Chair of Somerset CCG, as its leader. Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire formed a separate sustainability and transformation plan area with Robert Woolley, Chief Executive of University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, as its leader, [1] replaced by Stephen Ladyman in 2018.