South Petherton’s Superhero nurses celebrate International Nurses’ Day in style!

International Nurses’ Day is celebrated around the world every 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. The International Council of Nurses commemorates this important day each year with the production and distribution of the International Nurses’ Day Kit.

Our nursing staff are superheroes (as are all our staff) and, are always there when needed most, changing lives with their unique set of skills. Nurses are heroes who run towards danger, and we thank you for doing so, every single day!

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Superhero staff on Mary Robertson Ward enjoying International Nurses Day!

Annual General Meeting

Looking forward to seeing all our Friends at our Annual General Meeting – 10th May at the Methodist Hall in South Petherton (refreshments from 6.30, 7pm start)!!

Public Meeting: Somerset STP overview

Public meeting at Methodist Hall in South Petherton

Maximum capacity in South Petherton’s Methodist Church Hall, Somerset.

At a time when the state of the nation’s health and social care provision is headline news and with claims of both sectors being “in crisis”, South Petherton played host to a lively public meeting about the proposed Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) on 11th January 2017. Continue reading →

STP: Public meeting on 11 January 2017

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The Methodist Hall, Palmer St, South Petherton

The League has organised a public meeting on 11 January 2017 at 7pm – at the Methodist Church Hall in South Petherton – for members of the local community to find out more about NHS England’s ‘Sustainability and Transformation Plans’ (STPs). Somerset’s STP intends that our shared experience of the health and social care system in three years will be radically different from today. In order to support our community to engage confidently with any public consultations, this event aims to share information about the STP.

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‘If Only I’d Known That’ booklet

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Susan Hartnell-Beavis has written a booklet that offers helpful and practical insights for those caring for loved ones in Somerset. It has proven so popular with Carers that the League of Friends of South Petherton Hospital were delighted to fund the re-printing of the booklet when the first edition ran out. Continue reading →

Somerset Sustainability and Transformation Plan

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Willow Man by Paul Townsend

Somerset’s draft Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) was published on 10th November 2016. The document contains plans that are intended to affect significantly the provision of NHS and social care services for the people of Somerset. In order to ensure that our community receives the best care possible in future, it seems vital that Somerset residents spend time investigating and questioning the STP and take part in the various consultations that are planned across the county. Continue reading →