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Jun
17
A UNIQUE Exeter GP practice is set for an exciting future after relocating to purpose-built new premises in the city.
For the past 17 years, the Clock Tower Surgery, which caters exclusively for the homeless and vulnerably housed, has been located in converted offices, just yards from the Queen Street landmark after which it is named.
In that time, the Clock Tower has been widely praised for the service it has provided to users – many of whom have addictions and / or complex... read more »
Feb
11
Today [11.02.16] sees the publication of a Case for Change document that sets out the key issues and challenges facing the NHS in Northern, Eastern and Western [NEW] Devon.
It has been published as the first stage in the Success Regime programme, which began gathering evidence in the autumn.
The Case for Change comes less than a week after the national report by Lord Carter into NHS productivity and performance.
Commenting on the document, Ruth Carnall, Chair of the Success... read more »
Jan
28
DEVON Doctors and other NHS organisations in the county have launched a new mobile app which will give parents up-to-date advice about common childhood illnesses and how to treat them.
NHS Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group [NHS NEW Devon CCG], Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust [NDHT], the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust [RD&E] and Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust [PHT] have worked in partnership to launch the app.
The HANDi... read more »
Jan
22
A SURGERY operated by Devon Doctors subsidiary Access Health Care and Dental has been given a clean bill of health by the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
The Care Quality Commission [CQC] has just published its inspection report for Millbrook Surgery, having visited the Corwall practice in November 2015.
Overall the CQC rated the practice as good.
Its key findings across the areas it inspected were as follows:
• There was an open and... read more »
Jan
19
Devon Doctors is supporting Urgent Health UK’s [UHUK] position statement outlining seven calls to develop a more integrated urgent and emergency care sector. Devon Doctors is a member of UHUK, a federation of social enterprise providers of out-of-hospital urgent care.
As winter pressures take their toll, the challenges facing the urgent and emergency care sector are more significant than ever before and exacerbated by the lack of integration and... read more »
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