Get to know your Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
We were the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population.
Our trust was formed on 1 April 2020 when Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust merged. We provide community and mental health services across the whole of Somerset and acute hospital services in the north, west and centre of the county and beyond.
Working together we provide services including:
- Services delivered in your own home such as Somerset’s Rapid Response service that cares for patients to support them during a period of crisis and avoided over 1,000 patient going to hospital in its first year
- Primary care from three GP practices
- A range of services from 13 community hospital including outpatient and diagnostic services, 190 inpatient beds and seven Minor Injuries Units.
- A range of specialist mental health services
- Specialist healthcare for adults with learning disabilities
- Community dental health services
- Regional, specialist and hospital services from Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton including medical and surgical care, maternity services and cancer treatment services.
As well as our school immunisation service, we run the integrated therapies service for children and young people needing speech and language therapy, physiotherapy or occupational therapy.
Our trust also provides child and adolescent mental health services for patients needing help with anxiety or depression, eating disorders, personality disorders and other mental health problems. We work with teachers, school staff and parents to improve the mental health and emotional well-being of our young people in secondary schools in Somerset.
For more information about these services please go to our website: www.somersetft.nhs.uk