A local Bingo group, based in Chard has raised over £400 for the Flying Colours Appeal for Yeovil’s Health and Maternity Unit. The weekly Bingo game is held at Bishops Court, one of Yarlington Housing Group’s Retirement Living Schemes and organised by the residents. An entry fee is charged each week which goes towards charity […]

Yeovil District Hospital is holding a Service of Remembrance for relatives and friends of patients who were cared for at the hospital at the end of their lives. The service will be held on Sunday 17 November at St. John’s Church, Yeovil at 3pm. The service will include a varied selection of music from the […]

A concert is being held by the HMS volunteer band to raise funds for Yeovil District Hospital to enhance the hospital environment for patients with dementia. The Department of Health recently awarded Yeovil Hospital a grant for £350,000 to transform its trauma and orthopaedic ward into a dementia friendly environment. The hospital is also looking […]

The Friends of Yeovil Hospital have raised £978 for the benefit of all patients at Yeovil Hospital. Funds will be put towards the cost of equipment and services not readily available on the NHS. The Chris Parker quiz was held at Yeovil College. The winning team were ‘Charlie’s Angels’: Charles Hamilton, Martin Clark, Cathy Abram […]

The Friends of Yeovil Hospital have donated £ 234,179.31 since last October to the hospital to support patients and staff. The funds distributed by the Friends benefit a wide variety of departments and clinical areas across the hospital. It has enabled the Trust to buy new medical equipment and items to make patients more comfortable; […]

Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating its 40th anniversary this week. The main hospital building was opened by the Duchess of Kent on 15 October 1973. The tallest building in Yeovil, it was designed to make an architectural impact, as well as providing the very latest NHS care. The extension to the Accident and Emergency Department […]

Yeovil Hospital is running a photography competition with the winners’ photos being displayed on one of its wards which is currently being redesigned to make it dementia-friendly. There is an entry fee of £1.50 per photograph and all proceeds will go towards making the hospital’s environment more dementia-friendly. The winning photographs will be displayed in […]

A cancer education and exercise group set up at Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating its first anniversary this month, The SPRING (Support, Proactive, Recovery, Independence, Normality, Good Health) group supports the health and wellbeing of patients undergoing cancer treatment. SPRING is an exercise and education programme which was developed to improve cancer patients’ quality of […]

An Osteoporosis and Bone Health education session will be held in Yeovil District Hospital’s Academy on Tuesday 24 September from 2 - 4pm. Osteoporosis and Fracture Liaison Specialist Nurse, Clare Cockill, will be running the session with Physiotherapist, Jane Redfern. Clare said: “It is important to identify osteoporosis or an increased risk of fracture early […]

Yeovil District Hospital’s GOSSIP Gynae-oncology Survivorship group will hear about genetics and gynaecological cancers when it meets on Monday 30 September. The speaker will be Margaret James, a Genetics Counsellor. The GOSSIP patient support group provides advice and information for women with gynaecological cancer. It was founded by the Gynaecological Cancer Specialist Nurses based in […]