Health Services In Somerset

NHS Somerset is the organisation that considers the health needs of the population and commissions local health providers to deliver services that meet these needs. 

The aims of NHS Somerset are:

• to improve health and reduce health inequalities
• to eliminate waiting
• to improve health services, with a particular focus on unscheduled care
  

Please click on the map to find the health services.  The Health Services have been grouped in the district council areas of Mendip, Sedgemoor, South Somerset, Taunton Deane and West Somerset.

All services are commissioned to meet:

• clinical quality standards

• access standards

• Health and Safety standards

NHS Somerset commissions services from

• Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust  

• Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust  

• Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

• Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust  

• South Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust 

• Weston Area Health NHS Trust 

• Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust  

• North Bristol NHS Trust  

• University Hospital Bristol 

• Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre 

• St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice 

NHS Somerset coordinates the commissioning, planning and funding of all local NHS independent contractors

• 76 GP practices

• 72 dental surgeries 

• 91 community pharmacies 

• 56 optometric practices

Portfolio of Commissioning Policies