NHS Somerset Board meeting – join us

NHS Somerset Board will be holding its next meeting in public at 9.30 am on Thursday 30 November 2023 at Wynford House, Lufton Way, Yeovil, BA22 8HR. Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting to listen to the items being discussed and there is an opportunity to submit questions prior to the…

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Help your ambulance service this winter

Ambulance car at side of road. Snow covering road and trees.

The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is urging communities across the region to use its services responsibly this winter, as it prepares for a challenging period. The Trust is expecting a winter period of significant and sustained demand across its 999 services – a position that is reflected across other health and…

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NHS Patients To Be Offered The Chance To Travel For Treatment

Hundreds of thousands of NHS patients who have been waiting the longest for treatment will be offered the opportunity to travel to a different hospital, if it means they could be seen sooner.  From today, any patient who has been waiting longer than 40 weeks and does not have an appointment within the next eight…

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Somerset Community Foundation awards over £150,000 to help local community groups survive cost-of-living crisis

Somerset Community Foundation, in partnership with Somerset Council and NHS Somerset, recently awarded over £150,000 in grants to 44 local community groups in the latest round of Cost-of-Living grants this summer. The grants will help groups across the county cope with rising energy bills and offer more support to people in Somerset who are struggling…

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EMED group to provide non-emergency patient transport in Somerset

This is a patient transport service for non-urgent, planned journeys . NHS Somerset has successfully concluded a procurement exercise, awarding a 5-year contract to EMED Patient Care for the non-emergency patient transport service to go live on 1 October 2023. EMED, which is an independent sector provider of Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services (NEPTS), has an…

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