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BBC News
13-05-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Temporary closure for Yeovil maternity unit after warning
A hospital's birthing service is to close for six months amid a warning from the health watchdog about its paediatric District Hospital was served a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). It comes after a series of earlier critical reports on Somerset's maternity statement on the paediatric service said the warning was issued "for failing to meet the regulations related to staffing and governance systems".It means the only maternity unit in Somerset left fully open is at Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital. There are also units in Bath and Dorchester. The paediatric staffing problems are understood to have a knock-on for maternity services which have resulted in the temporary closure of birthing services at maternity services, like antenatal appointments, are expected to continue at Yeovil during the six month 1,200 babies were born at Yeovil District Hospital last year, with 3,000 births at Musgrove Park news of the birthing services closure comes a year after a critical report into maternity services at both hospitals in watchdog found there was expired milk in a fridge at Musgrove Park and criticised staff in Yeovil for not washing their hands when entering clinical CQC acknowledged staff at the trust were "keen to improve the services and some of the problems were out of local leaders' control".Chief executive for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, Peter Lewis, said at the time: "The real issue is that we do recognise that we have fallen short of the standards that are expected and the standards that we would expect."It's important to say sorry to the families that do use our services, but also sorry to the colleagues that work very hard in those services, some of which the CQC has recognised in a positive way."A report to a Somerset Council health scrutiny committee this week said the Trust had made "significant progress", completing 92% of all improvement actions outlined in the CQC maternity inspection reports.
BBC News
12-02-2025
- Business
- BBC News
The family-run Somerset village shop which opened 130 years ago
Daphne Creed is the third generation of her family to run the village shop in Hardington Mandeville, near took it on from her mother in 1991, who had managed it from 1936, who in turn had taken over from Ms Creed's grandmother, who had run it since the Creed received an MBE in 2012 for services to the community, for running the shop, and was presented with her award by the late Queen at Windsor told BBC Radio Somerset the best part of running her 130-year-old shop was "meeting all my friends every day". "I remember the old sweet jars and the cheese with the rind on," she said of the shop's history."Decimalisation came in and mum didn't think she was going to cope - but she did it fine!"The shop itself started life in the attached house, and has since grown to what it is today, and sells groceries and is also home to a Post Office, with Ms Creed saying they managed to avoid the Horizon running the shop, Ms Creed worked at Yeovil District Hospital in the maternity ward, but returned to the family business when her father passed away. Lifeline for locals She added she had good feedback from the community, including businesses that were able to pay in cash to the attached Post Creed, who is the shop's sole employee, also said she stayed open throughout the Covid lockdowns, adding people "queued right down the road" to get their essentials. "It was quite a thing really wasn't it?" she said, admitting it would have been a lifeline to in touch with her friends was what Ms Creed said was her favourite thing about her job, saying: "It gives me something to get up for."However, she said customers coming in as she was trying to have some lunch could often be one of the downsides of the job.
