There are just over two weeks left to enter NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group’s ‘Picture Your Health’ photography and picture competition.
The theme of the competition is ‘healthy people, living healthy lives, in healthy communities’, so if you are doing something healthy with your family this Easter weekend, why not take a photograph showing what health in Devon means to you?
You can take a picture of anything from a family walk or bicycle ride in Devon’s countryside, to a day at the beach or a football match.
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust today announced its preferred supplier for an electronic health record to support all community services, including community nursing teams across north, east and mid Devon.
Electronic health records signal the end to paper notes, referrals and forms and instead allows clinicians to access health records electronically and securely meaning patient care is safer, transition between services is smoother and the care we offer becomes much more centred on the patient and their holistic needs throughout health and social care services in Devon. The...
It is essential the Government comes clean and announces its plans for those NHS areas in the worst financial trouble, including Devon, before the election. Otherwise, the public will quite rightly conclude Ministers are trying to “bury bad news” until after May 7th.
I have it on good authority that the NHS was expecting to announce “intervention and support” regimes for the most “financially distressed” NHS areas at the same time as the new “vanguard” integration pilots, which were unveiled this week. This didn’t happen.
At Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday, my Labour...
On Wednesday11 March, The British Heart Foundation’s No Smoking Day returns for its 32nd year.
The annual campaign inspires and helps smokers who want to quit. This year, over one million smokers are expected to use No Smoking Day to quit.
As well as supporting as many smokers as possible to take part and begin their smoke-free lives, our Public Health team has been working with Devon Partnership NHS Trust to provide support for people with mental health issues – who are particularly susceptible to the damaging effects of smoking.
Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is supporting a new nationwide online and telephone service that helps people in the South West of England to take part in dementia research studies.
Join Dementia Research promises to accelerate the pace of dementia research by allowing people with and without dementia to register their interest in studies, helping researchers find the right participants at the right time.
This new Department of Health funded service is a collaboration between the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society...
A ground-breaking project is being rolled out across Devon to eliminate the potentially fatal hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the county – supported by the region’s key health chiefs. National drug charity Addaction has joined forces with the Hepatitis C Trust to pilot the scheme, which was announced at a meeting of the region’s top health professionals and decision makers in Exeter earlier this week. The project includes hugely increasing rates of HCV testing by training many more drug service staff in awareness and how to test, along with a peer educator system which will see people who...
Over 300 members of staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have pledged their support for the #hellomynameis campaign during a week of engagement activities. The events were part of the national launch of the campaign on 2nd February, which saw over 100 NHS organisations across the country joining together to support the campaign.
The #hellomynameis campaign was created by Dr Kate Granger, a young hospital consultant from Yorkshire, to improve patient experience. Kate became frustrated with the number of staff who failed to introduce themselves to her when she was...
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is launching a recruitment drive to enhance the nursing and therapy teams which care for people in community hospitals and at home across Exeter, Mid and East Devon.
The Trust is looking to attract experienced and newly-qualified nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapists to work across its acute and community services, which also span North Devon.
The Trust is holding recruitment open days at North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple, on Monday 16 March and at Tiverton and District Hospital on Monday 23 March, both from...
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has beaten off competition from Sony Europe, Tesco Bank and Jurys Inn to win a national award for the success of its online learning management system (LMS) for staff.
The Trust and Kallidus, the LMS company it works with, struck gold at the e-Learning Awards in London.
They won the Best Learning Management System Implementation category at an awards ceremony attended by around 550 guests and experts from across the industry.
The Trust has reported significant improvements in e-learning since switching to Kallidus in 2013....
Monitor is investigating the commissioning of community services in Devon worth more than £100 million over three years. The health sector regulator stepped in after receiving a complaint from Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, a provider of acute and community services including district nursing and community matrons. The complaint is about NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group’s decision to name the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust as its preferred provider of community services for the eastern part of the CCG’s area. Monitor will review the...
