Dene Barton Community Hospital

Dene Barton Community Hospital
Somerset Community Health
Shown in Somerset
Geography
Location	Cotford St Luke, near Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom
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. It is run by Somerset Community Health, part of the Somerset Primary Care 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]

References

1. ^ "Somerset NHS". Taunton & Somerset NHS Trust. http://www.somerset.nhs.uk/community/our-services2/community-hospitals/dene-barton-community-hospital/. Retrieved 2011-07-20. 
2. ^ "Care Quality Commission". Dene Barton Community Hospital. http://caredirectory.cqc.org.uk/caredirectory/searchthecaredirectory.cfm?widCall1=customWidgets.content_view_1&cit_id=5QL&element=REGISTER&page=5QL85/. Retrieved 2011-07-20. 

External links

• Dene Barton Community Hospital Website

Coordinates: 51°02′21″N 3°11′19″W / 51.0392°N 3.1886°W / 51.0392; -3.1886