Health and Wellbeing

A brand new service that makes it easier to get checked for womb cancer has launched across Somerset this week in a UK first.

Local charity, Age UK Somerset, is launching a new class in Staplegrove. Specially designed for people over 55, Flexercise is a gentle, seated exercise session which uses fun props and laughter to get you moving. This class is starting on Tuesday 10th October ’23.

Cancer treatment in Somerset has been handed a major boost following the opening of a brand new radiotherapy superficial x-ray unit at Musgrove Park. The new unit was purpose-built off

A new way of recruiting colleagues to the NHS in Taunton and West Somerset.

Construction work has started this week on the main build of a new £87 million surgical centre at Musgrove Park Hospital.

A team of Somerset gynaecological oncology doctors have been awarded nearly £300,000 by the Medical Research Council.

Patients are now able to access even more NHS care and treatment from the Taunton Diagnostic Centre building.

Patients being cared for at Musgrove Park Hospital, who also have struggles with alcohol, are now getting extra support thanks to a new service.

Local charity Age UK Somerset is keen to find people who would be happy to share an hour a week with an older person, in the Taunton area, to help reduce loneliness and increase laughter and smiles.

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust’s (FT) interventional radiology team is celebrating the award of ‘Exemplar Status’ by leading figures in the profession.

Two radiologists at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust have played a leading role in spreading the practice of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning to the healthcare system of Vietnam.

A catering team leader at Musgrove Park Hospital reached the final of this year’s Hospital Caterers’ Association awards.

Taunton resident Kevin Brown has set off in his journey to walk 300 miles in 10 days to raise money for the charity Hope for Tomorrow. 

Somerset has become the first county in the south west to offer a groundbreaking treatment for severe depression, free on the NHS.

Over 8,300 people have been helped to regain their independence at home following a stay in hospital thanks to Somerset’s Discharge to Assess service.

Patients in Somerset who undergo spinal surgery are more likely to recover quicker thanks to a surgical technique introduced at Musgrove Park Hospital.

Over 9 days from Monday 2 April to Tuesday 11 April, an incredible team of 8 from the 825 Naval Air Squadron from the Royal Navy Air Station at Yeovilton

A unique role that aims to ease the pressure on postgraduate doctors in training is growing from strength to strength in Somerset. A 23 strong team of physician associates (PAs)