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The overall experience of inpatients at Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) has improved this year, according to the latest national inpatient survey.

Nearly 600 people shared their views about the care they received at NDHT.

The results have been published by the Care Quality Commission as part of its look at standards around the country.

The survey also puts NDHT in the top fifth of trusts for issues such as feeling looked after by hospital staff and the level of respect and dignity for patients.

Dr Alison Diamond, chief executive for the Trust,...

A visitors survey is being carried out in Exmouth by an independent team of researchers over the next few months as part of an initiative by the town’s Coastal Community Team.

The study will provide key information about the Exmouth visitor economy and will involve a team of trained interviewers speaking face to face to around 1,000 people visiting the town from this month to October.

The Exmouth Coastal Community Team was established last year and its aim is to raise the town’s economic potential. The team is a local partnership which includes East Devon District Council...

The Dissenters Graveyard in Exeter will open to visitors between 11am and 4pm on Saturday 25th June.

Visitors will be abel to:

- see the work done and being done to repair broken monuments: restored chest tombs; broken headstones repaired and set upright; and gravestones being put together piece by piece.

- view an exploratory excavation which could reveal a previously unknown underground vault.

- hear about previous excavations including an investigation of an intact underground vault with visible burials.

- hear about the histories and sometimes...

A couple who met on FORCE Cancer Charity’s Nello bike ride have just celebrated the birth of their first child.

Refreshment stop volunteer Tracy Sanders and cyclist Roland Wainwright first set eyes on each other over bananas and bottled water at the Tiverton Rugby Club feed station in 2014.

“I’ve been helping with the FORCE bike ride for the past seven years and I was always joking that maybe I could find myself a nice cyclist,” said Tracy.

She was helping with the clear-up when three backmarkers on the 55-mile ride – Roland and his friends Phil and Suzanne Cook –...