Paulton Memorial Hospital is a community hospital located in the village of

Paulton Paulton () is a large village and civil parish, with a population of 5,302, located to the north of the Mendip Hills, very close to Norton Radstock in the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset (BANES), England. Paulton is a forme ...

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, approximately from Bath, managed by

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History

The original hospital was founded by Dr Alexander Waugh and Mrs John George Mogg, and was opened by

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, in October 1872. Extensively upgraded facilities were opened in January 1997. In 2003, plans to close the hospital, as well as a petition to keep it open, were debated in

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Services

There are 28 beds for inpatients in the hospital ward including six single rooms and the largest bay having six beds. An outpatient service operates five days a week Monday to Friday. Bath and North East Somerset

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provide a specialist local outpatient service. The hospital also has other specialists offering advice, e.g.

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advisors, and a one-stop INR clinic weekly and diagnostic

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scans once or twice weekly. The hospital also has a maternity unit, managed by

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which performs approximately 120 deliveries a year.

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