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°WCoordinates: 51°02′18″N 3°10′55″W / 51.0383°N 3.1819°W
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. Formerly run by Somerset Community Health, part of the Somerset Primary Care Trust. It is now managed by the Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Facilities

The hospital has 40 inpatient beds, located in the Luke and Lydeard wards, where patients can be admitted under the care of a consultant in Care of the Elderly. There is a team of doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists to support patients during their hospital stay.

Other facilities include the 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; the X-ray department; the Community Rehabilitation Unit, which provides physiotherapy and occupational therapy services; the 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 the musculoskeletal clinic for back, shoulder and knee problems.[1]

The hospital specialises in children, dementia, mental health, older people, sensory impairment, services for everyone and younger adults.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Somerset NHS". Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
  2. ↑ "Care Quality Commission". Dene Barton Community Hospital. Retrieved 2011-07-20.

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