Somerset NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of community-based health services to the people of Somerset and specialist community dental services to the county of Dorset.
We support our local community to live well by preventing health problems from happening in the first place and supporting people to manage health problems when they do occur. We provide prevention programmes in the community, healthcare support in peoples’ homes, urgent care in our minor injuries units and inpatient care when patients need hospital treatment.
Our community services include:
- Adult Speech and Language Therapy
- Ambulatory Care
- Bedded Flow
- Care Coordination Hub
- Community Stroke Early Supported Discharge Service
- Community Therapies Service
- Community Urgent Care (Urgent Treatment Centres / Minor Injuries Units)
- Continence Service
- Dementia and Delirium Service
- Discharge to Assess Service (D2A)
- District Nursing Service
- Fatigue Service
- Homeless and Rough Sleeper Nursing Service
- Hospital at Home
- Intensive Dementia Service
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Occupational Therapy
- Older People’s Mental Health
- Orthotics Service
- Pain Management, Parkinson Service, Osteoporosis and Fracture Liaison Services
- Palliative Care Service
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry Service
- Rapid Response
- Somerset Vaccination Service
- South Somerset Complex Care Service
- Tissue Viability Service (TVS)
- Urgent Community Response (UCR)