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
Robert Rapcan M.D., Medical Director
Deborah Gray, Director of Nursing

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