Today marks the one year countdown to the start of the RD&E’s MY CARE Programme - the single biggest clinical transformation programme ever undertaken at the Trust. This is also the first transformation of its type in the UK to be implemented across the acute hospital and community services.
MY CARE aims to fundamentally improve people’s experience of care at the RD&E (including members of the public, patients, carers and staff), by better connecting care between our hospitals, community clinics and the care people receive at home. It means that patients will be seen in the...
Patients at the RD&E highly rate the services provided, according to survey results released this week.
The annual Care Quality Commission (CQC) Inpatient Survey looked at the care of 706 inpatients who were discharged from the RD&E in July 2018. Patients assessed the Trust on a variety of areas during their stay, including the time it took for patients to get a bed on the ward, the care received from clinical and non-clinical staff and their overall views of the care and services provided by the Trust.
Overall, around half of the RD&E’s scores were in the top...
Members of the public are invited to nominate and vote for their outstanding RD&E heroes in the brand new People’s Choice Awards.
Patients, staff and members of the public can nominate and then vote for any member of staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust who they feel has provided exceptional service, care, or made a difference, no matter their role.
The RD&E already has an extremely successful awards scheme where patients can nominate staff for the Excellent Care award, however the new People’s Choice Awards allows a much wider audience to get...
Maternity services at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have been rated highly by local mums in the 2018 National Maternity Survey.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) survey asked women about their experience of antenatal care, care during labour and birth, and postnatal care. Across the country, responses were received from more than 17,000 women who gave birth in February 2018 in services run by 129 NHS trusts.
157 mothers who were cared for by RD&E midwives gave their feedback on maternity services provided by the Trust at Wonford Hospital, Tiverton,...
A medical unit designed to assess patients quickly and avoid unnecessary admission into hospital has been reopened following a major £1 million refit.
The RD&E’s Medical Triage Unit (MTU) provides rapid diagnosis and care to stable emergency patients referred from their local GP or the RD&E’s Emergency Department. The unit allows patients to be treated by expert clinical teams in a bed or seated in a treatment area if mobile, without being admitted to hospital. The unit’s overall purpose is to minimise unnecessary hospital admissions, which can sometimes delay a patient’s...
Two siblings from Devon have raised an incredible £4000 for the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust after the department saved their step-father’s life.
Harrison and Arianna Folland decided to run the Brighton Marathon after their step father, Tom Lander, spent just under a week in the Intensive Care Unit after suffering from inflammation on the brain in March 2018.
Harrison and Arianna had already planned to run the Brighton Marathon on 15th April and, after seeing the hard work of the team in the ICU, felt that it would be a perfect...
Visiting friends and relatives in hospital at the Royal Devon and Exeter is set to become easier as the Trust opens up its visiting hours.
From Monday 5 February 2018, patient visiting will be open from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week.
The public are currently only able to visit patients on general wards at set times in the afternoon and early evening.
The move to more flexible hours comes in a bid to make visiting patients in hospital easier and more accessible for friends, relatives and carers, who will be able to choose to visit at a time that is most convenient....
Stars from the Exeter Chiefs Rugby Club officially opened a newly refurbished paediatric X-ray room at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital recently.
The room has been given a jungle-style makeover so it is more friendly and welcoming for children thanks to a fundraising campaign led by Radiology staff and the support of digital imaging company Agfa HealthCare.
It is the second room to receive a makeover as a result of the RD&E’s Big Raise for Little Rays campaign.
The campaign successfully funded the £5,000 refurbishment the first X-ray room with a submarine...
Midwives, mums and babies celebrated five years of the Exeter Birth Centre with a special celebration at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital last month.
The midwife-led unit, based in the RD&E’s Centre for Womens’ Health, supports women who have had a low risk pregnancy and who want a birth with minimal medical intervention.
Since it first opened its doors as a full time service on 18th November 2012, over 3,000 babies have been born at the Exeter Birth Centre, the very first arriving in the early hours of Monday 19th.
The RD&E’s Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre (PEOC) has celebrated its 90th birthday after being opened by royalty in 1927.
PEOC was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 16 November 1927 to help children with debilitating diseases such as tuberculosis and polio. The Duchess named PEOC after her daughter Princess Elizabeth, the present Queen, who was just 18 months old at the time.
In the nine decades since, PEOC has transformed the lives of countless people and established itself as one of the UK’s leading centres of orthopaedic excellence. The centre, based at...
