Dene Barton Community Hospital

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.

Dene Barton Community Hospital
Somerset Community Health
Shown in Somerset
Geography
LocationCotford St Luke, near Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
Coordinates51.0383°N 3.1819°W / 51.0383; -3.1819
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
TypeCommunity
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds40
Links
Websitewww.sompar.nhs.uk/what-we-do/community-hospitals/dene-barton-community-hospital/
ListsHospitals in the United Kingdom

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, which 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 4 October 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2011.
  4. "Care Quality Commission". Dene Barton Community Hospital. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
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