NHS Bath and North East Somerset

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Name :

NHS Bath and North East Somerset

Address  :

Clara Cross Lane

Town  :

Bath

State  :

Somerset

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

BA2 5RP

Phone  :

01225 831800

Fax  :

01225 840407

Web URL  :


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About Us
NHS Bath and North East Somerset is the name of Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust

As an organisation we are working together with Bath and North East Somerset Council through the Health and Wellbeing Partnership This joins up Health Social Care and Housing into a single body Working together helps us to achieve

More effective planning and decisionmaking

the seamless delivery of care services to local people

improved efficiency and value for money
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