FAQs About SMTC
Contact Details
Shepton Mallet NHS Treatment Centre
Old Wells Road
Shepton Mallet
Somerset
BA4 4LP
Tel: 01749 333 600
Key Personnel
Chester Barnes, Registered Manager
Liz Allen, Head of Nursing and Clinical Service
Opened
July 2005, run by UK Specialist Hospitals Ltd www.uk-sh.co.uk
Services
Elective surgery and diagnostic procedures for NHS patients referred by two local Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) in a stand-alone surgical hospital. Services include: Orthopaedic Surgery, General Surgery, Ophthalmic Surgery, Endoscopy, Radiology, MRI, Xray, Ultrasound and Physiotherapy Therapy
Employees
130
Key Facts
- SMTC was built in record time (42 week build)
- The staff are all additional to the NHS
- There is a zero MRSA rate to date for in-patients
- Patient satisfaction is high with 100% saying that they would recommend SMTC to a friend and 99% saying that the Centre was ‘welcoming and clean’
- SMTC undertakes 12,000 procedures a year
- The Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt visited in July 2006
- The Minister of State for Health and Minister for the South West, Ben Bradshaw visited in August 2007