Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating National Pathology Year which marks 50 years of the Royal College of Pathologists and 100 years of the Institute of Biomedical Scientists...

Staff from across Yeovil District Hospital will be taking time out from their daily duties to celebrate Nurses Day on Thursday, 10 May...

May 2012 sees the launch of the UK’s first Action on Stroke Month with a focus on Life after Stroke...

Yeovil District Hospital has recruited four new non-executive directors who have extensive experience leading international, national and regional organisations...

Yeovil District Hospital is planning to improve the support it gives to families and friends of patients in its Intensive Care Unit...

Art students from Bruton School for Girls have made quite an impression with a display of their GCSE artwork in a busy hospital corridor...

A retired fire captain from Atlantic City has raised much needed funds for Yeovil District Hospital’s Flying Colours Appeal...

A young father and his friend have completed a challenging coast-to-coast run covering 230 miles in five days to raise money for charity in memory of his stillborn son despite testing weather conditions...

Psychotherapist, Marie Anderson will be exploring the psychological effects of cancer through creative therapy at this month’s GOSSIP patient support group on Monday 23 April...

Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating this year’s Nurses Day with an awards scheme and patients are being invited to nominate nursing staff who have made a difference to them. The awards are for nurses, midwives, health care assistants or student nurses of the year...

Sixteen real-life stormtroopers will be descending on Yeovil town centre at 10.30am on Saturday 14 April in a bid to raise money for the Flying Colours Appeal for Yeovil Women’s Hospital...

Orthopaedic surgeons are reassuring patients that the metal-on-metal hips which have featured in recent national media coverage have not been used in Yeovil District Hospital...

Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating this year’s Nurses Day with an awards scheme and patients are being invited to nominate nursing staff who have made a difference to them. The awards are for nurses, midwives, health care assistants or student nurses of the year...

A young father is planning to set off on a coast-to-coast run covering 230 miles in five days to raise money for charity in memory of his stillborn son...

A unique partnership between a fire captain from Atlantic City and Sandworld in Weymouth is raising much needed funds for Yeovil District Hospital’s Flying Colours Appeal...

Dietician, Liechia Smuts, will be discussing the importance of a balanced diet to improve general health at this month’s GOSSIP patient support group on Monday 26 March...

Yeovil District Hospital is the best NHS site in Somerset when it comes to recycling...

Yeovil District Hospital is celebrating National Pathology Year which marks 50 years of the Royal College of Pathologists and 100 years of the Institute of Biomedical Scientists...

Yeovil District Hospital's new Chief Executive will be Paul Mears who has been the Chief Operating Officer at South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust since 2009. The Trust, which runs Torbay Hospital, was the Health Service Journal’s Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year last year. Prior to 2009 Paul was Director of Operations for Torbay Care Trust and Head of Community services at Torbay PCT. Paul joined the NHS through the Gateway Leadership Programme having previously worked in commercial management for British Airways and Eurostar...

Yeovil District Hospital will be welcoming two musicians to the outpatients’ waiting area on April 2 at 2pm...

Yeovil District Hospital will mark Stop Smoking Day on Wednesday, 14 March by launching a new smoke free site initiative...

Key members of Yeovil Town Football Club will be celebrating the official opening of a new coffee shop at Yeovil’s Women’s Hospital. The much-needed facility has been provided thanks to the support of the local community fundraising for the Flying Colours Appeal...

Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and have signed a contract with Integrated Pathology Partnerships (iPP) to form a new pathology services joint venture...

Advances in radiotherapy will be discussed by the GOSSIP health promotion and support group with Dr Petra Jankowska on Monday 27 February...

Yeovil District Hospital exceeded expectations in the national survey of outpatients which was published today...

Yeovil District Hospital is holding a free one day event designed especially for those affected by a cancer diagnosis including patients, carers, family and friends...

Anyone who is considering training to be a midwife is invited to spend a day with midwives at Yeovil District Hospital...

A regional review of Yeovil District Hospital has praised the strong leadership and commitment the Trust has in ensuring the needs of dementia patients are met...

A report by Heart UK has revealed that Yeovil District Hospital is the fifth best hospital in the country for patients taking advantage of cardiac rehabilitation programmes...

Yeovil District Hospital’s Flying Colours Appeal, which aims to raise £2.4m to enhance the Women’s Hospital, has received a boost with the appointment of two new fundraisers...

Yeovil District Hospital’s newly refurbished Douglas Macmillan Cancer Unit has joined forces with South Somerset Citizens Advice Bureau to provide a Macmillan Welfare Benefits Service. The hospital is now offering a drop-in service provided by the Citizens Advice Bureau for cancer patients, their families and carers on three days a week...

Women who have had gynaecological cancer are invited to learn more about chemotherapy and keeping healthy at an event to be held at Yeovil District Hospital...

A grandmother from Holnest near Sherborne has raised £2,500 for Yeovil District Hospital’s Flying Colours Appeal after completing the Annapurna Trek in Nepal...

Yeovil District Hospital has been awarded the prestigious UNICEF Baby Friendly Award winning international recognition from the United Nation’s Children’s Fund for the care it gives to mums and babies...

A ward at Yeovil District Hospital has been temporarily closed as both patients and staff are suffering from Norovirus...

Yeovil District Hospital’s favourite fundraisers, Flo and Jim Essex MBE, had to cancel a winter holiday due to illness. But the octogenarians with a heart of gold turned disappointment into joy when they used the money to pay for a portable baby heart monitor...

Two Chinese doctors have been experiencing life in a UK hospital through an exchange programme supported by Yeovil District Hospital...

A charity disco and raffle has raised £2,265 for Yeovil District Hospital’s Macmillan unit...

Yeovil District Hospital is advertising for a new chief executive to replace Gavin Boyle...

This Christmas the Maternity Department of Yeovil District Hospital has again placed a Christmas tree where people can remember a baby who died in miscarriage or at birth...

A dog show in the grounds of Knighton House School in Durweston raised £500 for Yeovil District Hospital’s Flying Colours Appeal...

Yeovil District Hospital is focussing on the care it gives to people with dementia and is running a musical project to enhance the way patients are cared for. Music is being used to stimulate patients in the hospital who have dementia in a pilot scheme which is being run for four weeks on Sparkford Ward in partnership with Same Difference Dance...