Yeovil Hospital, previously known as Yeovil District Hospital, is a hospital in Yeovil, Somerset, England, managed by

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is a NHS foundation trust providing services for NHS England in Somerset, England. It manages a number of hospitals providing mental, community and acute hospital care across the whole county. In April 2023, the ...

History

The hospital has its origins in a general

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established at the suggestion of Dr Elias Taylor Warry in a cottage in Kingston in March 1858. This was replaced by a purpose-built facility at Batt's Corner known as Fiveways Hospital in 1872. This was, in turn, replaced by an improved facility in Bide's Gardens which was designed by Paul Waterhouse and officially opened as Yeovil General Hospital by the Prince of Wales on 19 July 1923. It joined the National Health Service in 1948. The current facility was designed by

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and construction started in Higher Kingston in 1968. It was officially opened by Prince Edward, Duke of Kent on 15 October 1973. It was refurbished, creating a new coronary care unit, intensive care unit and private patient ward at a cost of £9.3 million, in 2000. A 24-bed extension was completed in April 2016. On 1 April 2023, Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust merged with

, which now manages the hospital.

Notable staff

Between 1900 and 1941 three successive matrons of Yeovil Hospital had trained at

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under Eva Luckes. * Sarah Harriet Harris, (1860–1950), matron between 1900 and 1912. * Eleanor Rayner, (1867–1949), matron between 1913 and 1917. * Ruth Anderson, (1880–1944), matron for twenty five years between 1917 and 1941.

References

External links

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Yeovil Hospital
on the NHS website
Inspection reports
from the Care Quality Commission {{authority control NHS hospitals in England Hospitals in Somerset Buildings and structures in Yeovil