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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.
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 ...
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 nineteenth century. Edward Colgan, the chief executive, spoke at a tribute to William Baker and John Bowen (heroes of a cholera epidemic of 1849 ...
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]
An NHS foundation trust is a semi-autonomous organisational unit within the National Health Service in England.They have a degree of independence from the Department of Health and Social Care (and, until the abolition of SHAs in 2013, their local strategic health authority).
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, established 1 November 1991 as Airedale NHS Trust, [2] authorised as a foundation trust on 1 June 2010. [3]Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, established 21 December 1990 as Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, [4] changed its name to The Royal Liverpool Children's National Health Service Trust on 15 March 1996, [5 ...