THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is hoping to follow up its win at the national HSJ Value in Healthcare Awards in 2014 with more success in the 2015 event.
A year after the Trust’s stroke therapy team tasted victory, the organisation has been shortlisted five times ahead of the 2015 awards ceremony this month.
The awards, led by flagship publication the Health Service Journal, recognise and reward outstanding efficiency and improvement by the NHS.
With NHS organisations required to make significant year-on-year savings and Devon highlighted as one of 11 “...
Well over a third of patients who suffered cardiac arrest at the RD&E Hospital in Exeter last year survived and were later discharged from hospital compared to 18% nationally, a clinical study has found. The latest National Cardiac Arrest Audit Report compared hospital cardiac arrest survival data for the period April-December 2014. Some 37.5% of patients at the RD&E survived and were later discharged compared to a national average of 18.4% at hospitals across England. The percentage applies to those patients who suffered cardiac arrest in the RD&E and who were given...
THE Trust that runs Exeter Community Hospital and community health, social care and specialist services in the city has been named in a list of the best places to work in the NHS.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust employs around 4,500 staff at North Devon District Hospital, 17 community hospitals and in community health, social care and specialist teams across half the county.
The Trust is one of 40 acute Trusts to make the list of the Best Places to Work in the NHS for 2015, compiled by flagship publications the Health Service Journal and Nursing Times and...
THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is to continue its recruitment drive by holding an open day in Okehampton later this month.
The Trust has already held five successful open days this year, in Barnstaple, Tiverton, Axminster, Seaton and Sidmouth.
It is holding a further event at Okehampton Hospital on Saturday 27 June (10am to 3pm).
The Okehampton event is for nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other health professionals interested in working at community hospitals or in the Trust’s community teams, which support patients in their own homes...
AN NHS physiotherapist from East Devon has been selected to compete for Great Britain in the 2015 World Dragon Boat Racing Championships in Canada – just two years after taking up the sport.
Sue Bath, a musculoskeletal (MSK) physiotherapy team lead for the Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, said she was ‘overweight and unfit’ when she moved to the area in 2013.
She did an internet search for ‘things to do in Exeter’, joined the Exe-Calibre Dragon Boat Club soon after and hasn’t looked back since.
Sue, 50, has raced for Exe-Calibre’s mixed and ladies crews in the...
THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is hoping the success of its nurse recruitment open days continues when it holds its latest event in Sidmouth later this month.
The Trust is looking for experienced and newly-qualified Band 5 nurses to bolster the teams at its community hospitals in East Devon.
The main aim will be to recruit enough nurses to enable inpatient services to be reinstated at Axminster, where the beds remain temporarily closed due to concerns over lone working and staffing levels.
There are also opportunities elsewhere in Devon, including at...
THE Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has been shortlisted for a national award for its commitment to delivering excellent patient experience.
The Trust has been named as a finalist in the Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA) for its work to resolve complaints at the earliest possible stage.
Over the past two years the Trust has systematically changed the way it manages formal complaints.
The customer relations team now tries to verbally acknowledge every complaint at the outset, enabling an open discussion about the issues raised and a choice by the...
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...
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 Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital is urging anyone who has suffered from symptoms of the highly infectious Norovirus bug to stay away from the hospital until they have been free of the symptoms for at least 48 hours. Cases of Norovirus, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea and is more common in the winter months, have been rising at the RD&E over the Christmas and New Year period, placing extra pressure on hospital bed capacity at a very busy time for the hospital. At the current time the hospital has closed Lowman and Okement wards and isolated areas in three other wards – Torridge,...
