Dene Barton Community Hospital
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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.
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.
The hospital specialises in children, dementia, mental health, older people, sensory impairment, services for everyone and younger adults.
National Health Service
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hospital
Hospital
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located in Cotford St Luke
Cotford St Luke
Cotford St Luke is a village in the district of Taunton Deane, Somerset, England. Cotford St Luke is a new village that was established following the closure of Tone Vale Hospital and Cotford Asylum in the 1990s...
, near Taunton
Taunton
Taunton is the county town of Somerset, England. The town, including its suburbs, had an estimated population of 61,400 in 2001. It is the largest town in the shire county of Somerset....
, Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, 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 consultantConsultant
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in Care of the Elderly. There is a team of doctors
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, 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
Musgrove Park Hospital
Musgrove Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital located in Taunton, Somerset. Originally a US Army General Hospital during the Second World War, it became an NHS hospital in 1949.-About the hospital:...
; the X-ray
X-ray
X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...
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.
The hospital specialises in children, dementia, mental health, older people, sensory impairment, services for everyone and younger adults.