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May / 2023 maternal mental health service team members are photographed with the heads, shoulders and tops of torsos of three colleagues in the front row and five further colleagues gathered behind with the tallest in the centre. Each of the team is wearing daytime clothing and blue lanyards around their necks, smiling directly towards the camera.

Delivering trauma-informed maternal mental health care in Somerset

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Apr / 2023 A group of six Somerset NHS FT colleagues in blue scrubs looking happy to be in the light and bright clinical room. There is a bed on one side of the group and an Endoscopy machine on the left hand side with a computer screen on top.

Third room opens at Bridgwater Hospital’s endoscopy unit

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Apr / 2023 Breast care fundraisers in blue hard hats, breast care team and builders in white hard hats stand wearing hi vis jackets outside Yeovil Hospital at the site the new breast care unit will be built. The group are gathered, looking towards the camera with a road in the background. At the front, the breast care consultant is posed with a shiny spade and a fund raiser in a wheelchair in the front of the photo holds a large pink ribbon cut out image.

Construction begins on new Breast Cancer Unit as fundraising efforts continue

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Apr / 2023 Mr Richard Bamford, one of our colorectal surgeons and another woman colleague, both in blue theatre scrubs, stood in front of the robot. The robot has lots of different arms coming from the main body. They are demonstrating how the different arms work on a dummy,

New surgical robots arrive at Musgrove Park and Yeovil Hospital

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Apr / 2023 Six colleagues from Yeovil Hospital stood in front of the main Yeovil Hospital entrance. Five colleagues are wearing blue scrubs with Lanyards, and one colleague wearing green scrubs. They are all Physician Associates.

Innovative physician associate role extends across Somerset’s NHS

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Apr / 2023 Group of uniformed and plainly dressed colleagues inside the new unit surrounding a celebratory cake on a table

New NHS macular treatment centre in Taunton is declared officially open

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Apr / 2023 A beautifully calm Somerset river scene with the river flowing towards us and the banks and front frame are lined with yellow wild flowers. Fluffy white clouds decorate the blue sky above.

Internet issues affecting phone lines and online services – now resolved

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Apr / 2023 Group of NHS colleagues in Blue Scrubs

RCN industrial action update: Sunday 30 April – Monday 1 May.

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Apr / 2023 Group of lovely smiling uniformed colleagues stood on the grass in a line with Yeovil hospital in the background. there are yellow, blue and white uniforms.

Specialist dementia and delirium teams come together across Somerset

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Apr / 2023 A photo of two photos of the maternity teams from both Musgrove Park Hospital and Yeovil Hospital. In both images, there are hospital colleagues in different uniforms from the red matron uniform to the blue health care assistant uniform. They sitting and standing all looking at the camera. Both photos are in birthing rooms with inflatable balls that pregnant women use whilst staying within our hospitals.

Joint maternity service benefits families across Somerset

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Apr / 2023 Our homeless and rough sleepers service is a community-based team and photographed are six members of the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust team stood in a line with their bodies facing the left of the image and smiling faces to the front. The colleagues at each end are wearing light blue uniform blouses. Two colleagues to the right of the centre are wearing navy with red trim nursing uniforms and in the centre a nurse is wearing a red with navy trim uniform. The colleague to the left of the sentre is not in uniform and wears a green and white dress.

Finding the forgotten in Somerset – how we are caring for the homeless

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Apr / 2023 A blue background graphic with the words Welcome to Our New Somerset FT. An illustration of a murmeration of silhouetted birds forming an 's' in the background. A logo on the bottom right says Kindness, Respect, Teamwork everyday.

Two Somerset NHS trusts merge to create unique NHS trust

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