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Ambitious plans to transform dementia services in Somerset

16 May 2022 · by suziarnoldfry · in Adult Social Care, health and wellbeing, Press releases, Public Health, Social Care, Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Health and social care organisations in Somerset have unveiled ambitious plans to invest in services and transform care for the county’s 9,400 people living with dementia. Somerset County Council is working with the NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group and community and charitable sectors to redesign nursing and residential homes, and invest in new technologies and […]

Young and old to live together, as new Homeshare scheme launched in Somerset

28 April 2022 · by suziarnoldfry · in Adult Social Care, Press releases

A Home share scheme matching homeowners in need of support with people looking for affordable accommodation has been launched in Somerset…

Urgent appeal for the return of community healthcare equipment

16 December 2021 · by suziarnoldfry · in Adult Social Care, Press releases, Public Health

Millbrook Healthcare is making an urgent appeal to its service users on behalf of Somerset County Council and Somerset NHS: if you have any of our community healthcare equipment you no longer need, please can you contact them, to arrange for it to be collected. Collections are free and contactless and where possible, Millbrook will […]