The Neonatal team at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital have fought off competition from across the globe to win an international Kangaroo-a-thon.
The challenge saw the unit competing against 110 other hospitals around the world including the USA, India and Australia. The team came out on top with an incredible 1351 hours of Kangaroo care recorded over 15 days.
Kangaroo Care, named as such from the close physical contact that a kangaroo gives their young, encourages skin to skin contact between parents and their premature or sick babies.
A Devon community healthcare champion and an Exeter clinical scientist who has helped to transform the lives of thousands of patients worldwide have been recognised by the Queen in her latest Birthday Honours.
Professor Sian Ellard, the RD&E’s Consultant Clinical Scientist and Professor of Genomic Medicine at the University of Exeter, receives an OBE, while Steve Hudson, the RD&E’s former Divisional Director of Community Services at the RD&E, receives an MBE.
Prof. Ellard has pioneered the use of diagnostic genetic testing in mainstream NHS clinical practice...
RD&E has received NHS Improvement approval to proceed with a new clinical transformation programme. As well as fundamentally improving the way services and care are delivered to patients, the programme will see paper-based patient records at the RD&E becoming a thing of the past.
The MY CARE Programme is the cornerstone of a broader programme of change that will engage those people who need our services together with those people entrusted to deliver them, to transform the way that care is delivered and make services at the RD&E more clinically and financially...
The South West has been recognised for its “exceptional performance” in bringing new treatments and medicines to its patients through clinical research – for the second year running.
The South West Peninsula is a ‘Prime Site’ for global pharmaceutical consultancy, IQVIA, and has just been announced as the best recruiting prime site in the world for 2017/18, being acknowledged with a certificate of achievement.
With the majority of clinical trials conducted across international borders, the prime site collaboration, formed in 2011, allows experts in the South West to foster...
The University of Exeter Medical School has been confirmed as a full partner of Dementias Platform UK (DPUK), a partnership of leading universities and prominent industry names striving for better research in dementia.
DPUK is a public-private partnership funded by the Medical Research Council. It aims to bring together researchers from universities and industry to develop effective treatments for dementia.
Exeter is the latest of several academic partners to join the prestigious list, which includes the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh and King’s College London...
Staff at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have given the Trust yet another positive report in the 2017 NHS staff survey released today (6 March 2018). Staff highly recommend the Trust as a place to work and to receive treatment placing it above average of Acute and Community Trusts nationally (3.97 out of 5 compared to a median of 3.75).
RD&E staff rated 21 out of 32 Key Findings in the survey better than average for all Acute and Community Trusts in 2017, including staff involvement in improvements at work, effective team working, support from immediate managers...
Patients on the Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital can now benefit from a new chair to help with their rehabilitation thanks to support from local fundraisers.
The Sara Combilizer chair has been jointly funded by the RD&E’s League of Friends and the Chappell family from Exmouth, who each donated £9,000 towards the new piece of equipment.
The chair enables patients to begin their rehabilitation process earlier by getting them out of bed and supporting them into a sitting or standing position, even whilst they are on a ventilator. The early...
Exeter’s Medicine students stepped up to volunteer in a wide range of support roles to help staff at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital to continue delivering high quality patient care over the severe weather period.
The RD&E NHS Foundation Trust has thanked Medicine students for their response to an urgent appeal for staff to work after snow and ice, which meant the hospital was extremely busy at a time when many staff were unable to reach work. Among those to answer the call were up to 40 Medicine students in years 3- 5 at the University of Exeter Medical School.
An "internal critical incident" was declared at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital due to the adverse weather.
Em Wilkinson-Brice, RD&E Deputy Chief Executive, said: “Due to the ongoing impact of the adverse weather today, the Trust is continuing to declare an internal critical incident and focusing all efforts providing urgent and emergency care only.
"This means we are diverting all available staff and resources to provide care for the patients who are in the hospital and receiving care from our community teams.
The achievements of world renowned Orthopaedic Surgeon Professor Robin Ling OBE, co-developer of the innovative Exeter Hip, has been celebrated with the renaming of a ward at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
RD&E elective and rehabilitation orthopaedic ward Tavy was officially renamed Robin Ling Ward on 22nd February 2018 in memory of the late Professor Ling who sadly passed away last year.
Professor Ling joined the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital (PEOH) as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1963 where he became interested in hip replacement surgery. He...
