Musgrove Park Hospital

Musgrove Park Hospital is part of Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

We are the largest General Hospital in Somerset and serve a population of over 340,000. Each year 34,000 patients are admitted as emergencies; 10,000 patients are admitted for elective surgery; 28,000 are seen for day case surgery; 238,000 outpatient appointments are held; 49,000 attend Accident and Emergency, 3,000 babies are born in the Maternity Department and 170,000 diagnostics tests are carried out.

Our annual budget for 2007/08 was £181m. The hospital has over 700 beds, 15 operating theatres, an Intensive Care and High Dependency Unit, a Medical Admissions Unit, a fully equipped Diagnostic Imaging Department and a specialised Children’s Department including a Paediatric High Dependency Bay. Musgrove Park also provides Neonatal Intensive Care for all of Somerset. We employ about 4000 staff.

Musgrove Park aims to be a high quality, constantly improving hospital, providing excellent clinical services in an efficient, effective and integrated way.