** About Us **
Yeovil District Hospital in Yeovil town centre has good road and rail links and is close to facilities, but retains the feel of the rural setting. All services are provided on one easily accessible site. The Trust provides a full range of services, with particular emphasis on enhancing patient recovery times through keyhole techniques and day surgery procedures.
Yeovil District Hospital has an excellent reputation and is consistently rated as being in the top ten of healtcare employers in the country.
At Yeovil District Hospital we promise to treat all patients as Individuals and to provide clear and effective Communication and an open, polite and professional Attitude at all times; Respect for patients, carers and staff and a clean, safe and friendly Environment this our iCARE promise.
Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides acute care for a population of about 185,000 mostly in South Somerset, North and West Dorset and parts of Mendip.
The Trust is committed to improving the care it offers and is actively working to improve safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience. With some of the lowest infection rates in the South West, an independent patient survey scored 9.3 out of 10 for cleanliness of wards and 8.1 for overall care.
Yeovil District Hospital was the first hospital in the country to meet the 18 week maximum waiting times target and consistently offers short waits for appointments and treatment. The Care Quality Commission’s Annual Health Check has rated Yeovil highly over the last three years as either ‘excellent’ or ‘good’ for the quality of services and ‘excellent’ for the use of resources.
Yeovil believes that ‘cared for staff’ lead to ‘cared for patients’ and consistently rates as one of the best performing hospitals in the national staff survey and has won the Healthcare 100 award, for being among the top ten healthcare employers in the country, for the last two years.
