Backed up by a strong local petition, 38 Degrees members across the country will be planning on meeting with their Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), including a public meeting at Exeter Central Library on Monday 29th October from 7pm to 8.30pm. They will be asking CCGs to adopt the amendments in their Guide for CCGs . Patients, doctors, nurses, other health workers and all concerned members of the public have been invited to attend the event.
The topic for discussion will cover such issues as c hildren’s health services in Devon, which are to be controversially...
UNISON South West is building the fight against the threat of regional pay in the NHS, which they claim will have a detrimental effect on the rights of health workers in regional parts of the UK. They have scheduled 18 events across the region this month, including four this week in Barnstaple, Plymouth and two in Exeter outside meetings of the North Devon Healthcare NHS Trust and the Devon Partnership NHS Trust, to try to lobby members of the Pay Consortium Boards, which have banded together in a bid to make “radical” changes to staff pay, terms and conditions outside of the national...
Following a highly competitive recruitment process with a significant number of quality applicants, Dr Ian Reynolds has been appointed as the new Chair of Chime Social Enterprise, the NHS audiology partner and leading not-for-profit hearing service across Devon.
Ian has a significant pedigree in executive and non-executive roles across healthcare, science and regulatory sectors in both public and private business sectors and he will commence his new role with immediate effect. As Chief Executive of Nottingham Health Authority and also of private healthcare company, Priory Hospitals...
Over 600 staff from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership NHS Trust have benefitted from the emotional support provided by jointly run Schwartz Rounds. The Schwartz Rounds are ‘grand round’ style confidential sessions for NHS staff to discuss social and emotional difficulties created by their work and to explore the human side of medicine. Each round is centred on a particular aspect of patient care and is attended by staff from all disciplines. The underlying premise for rounds is that the compassion shown by staff can make all the difference to a patient’s...
153 prospective employees have attended two recruitment days at Axminster and Seaton hospitals in February as work continues to re-open the inpatient beds at Axminster community hospital.
Members of the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust and the League of Friends in Axminster and Seaton have been working together to recruit full time and part time nurses to safely re-open 16 beds in Axminster, the equivalent of 11 extra nurses are needed and this new way of working is bringing us closer to our target. The beds at Axminster have been temporarily closed in January due to concerns...
Southwest Ambulance Trust plans to absorb staff from the defunct NHS Direct site at Exeter have run into trouble and staff have been told that the takeover could lead to redundancies.
As of Monday 4th November over 30 staff from the NHS Direct site in Exeter were transferred into the new Southwest Ambulance NHS Trust Service at Sowton.
They will continue to provide the 111 service for Somerset, but are now under control of the Ambulance Service as an employer.
It is understood that NHS direct are now in the process of making several staff redundant from the Exeter...
