Musgrove Park Hospital
| Musgrove Park Hospital | |
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| Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | |
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 Shown in Somerset
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| Geography | |
| Location | Taunton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°00′44″N 3°07′14″W / 51.0123°N 3.1205°WCoordinates: 51°00′44″N 3°07′14″W / 51.0123°N 3.1205°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Hospital type | District General |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Yes Accident & Emergency |
| Helipad | Yes |
| Beds | 700 + |
| History | |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.musgroveparkhospital.nhs.uk |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
Musgrove Park Hospital is a large NHS hospital located in Taunton, Somerset, England, run by Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. Originally a US Army General Hospital during the Second World War, it became an NHS hospital in 1949.
Musgrove Park is the major hospital in Somerset, which serves Taunton and its surrounding areas. It serves a population of 340,000 - primarily living in the area served by NHS South West. Each year 41,000 patients are admitted as emergencies; 9,000 patients are admitted for elective surgery; 34,000 are seen for day case surgery; 315,500 outpatient appointments are held; 56,000 attend Accident and Emergency, 3,400 babies are born in the Maternity Department and 235,000 diagnostics tests are carried out.
The hospital has an annual budget of £246.7 million; over 700 beds as well as 15 operating theatres. Musgrove Park is also home to an Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit, an Acute Medical Unit, a fully equipped Diagnostic Imaging department and a specialised Children’s Department including a Paediatric High Dependency Bay. The Trust also provides Neonatal Intensive Care for all of Somerset. The Trust employs about 4,000 staff.
Musgrove Park has a Community Radio station housed on its campus called Apple FM, presented and run by volunteers. The station is broadcast on 97.3 FM throughout Taunton Deane and beyond and to all patients and staff on the internal Bedside Entertainment Units.
Following an operation on his foot, Somerset cricketer Ian Botham mistakenly walked into a children's ward at Musgrove Park. He gives this as his inspiration for raising millions of pounds for leukaemia charities.
The 67th General Hospital was authorised on 3 March 1941, and activated 1 September 1942 as an American Army Hospital and occupied by the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
After the war, it continued in use as a Ministry of Pensions Hospital and only became a General Hospital within the National Health Service in 1951.
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