Join us on Sunday 15th of October 2017 at the Custom House Visitor Centre in Exeter Quay where we will start our 10 mile walk along the Exe Estuary trail to Exmouth. This beautiful walk along the river, takes you all the way to the sea and has some spectacular views. It’s also relatively flat and suitable therefore for the entire family – so why not bring everyone along and enjoy a day out whilst raising funds for Bloodwise, the blood cancer research charity?
The walk will have a midway stop at the Puffing Billy in Exton where you can stop and enjoy some refreshments before...
Kidney specialists at the Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital are putting on a series of public information events around Devon and Somerset about home dialysis treatments and the opportunities this can present for patients, including the ability to travel.
The events are being held in July in Torbay, Honiton, Barnstaple, Taunton and Exeter. Kidney patients, family members, carers and clinicians are invited to come along and meet the RD&E’s renal community team and current patients, including one person dialysing themself in a camper van with the transportable haemodialysis...
Fourteen NHS emergency hospital departments have opened a new clinical research study led by the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust which could transform patient experience of the way serious nose bleeds are treated.
Dr Adam Reuben, Emergency Medicine consultant at the Royal Devon & Exeter (Wonford) hospital is the Chief Investigator of the NoPac study.
NoPac is trialling the novel use of Tranexamic Acid to reduce the need for nasal packing to treat acute spontaneous nose bleeds.
Dr Reuben said: “Epistaxis or nose bleeds are an extremely common...
Two Medicine students at the University of Exeter Medical School are behind an upcoming book that aims to empower people with cancer by sharing their inspirational stories.
Students Bogdan Chiva Giurca, 23, and Navin Nagesh, 25, raised funds for a project to help people with cancer share their personal inspirational stories. They came up with the idea of a book written by people with cancer to inspire others affected by the disease.
The two students enlisted support from the Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and FORCE Cancer Charity, which provides support to...
Stroke patients in Eastern Devon will benefit from more joined up services this spring when a rehabilitation unit relocates to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
This move is the final stage in completing recommendations from a 2013 consultation led by Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the Stroke Association.
In April, inpatient stroke rehabilitation facilities at Ottery St Mary Community Hospital will be transferred to Yealm Ward at the RD&E, next to the Trust’s acute stroke care inpatient facilities on Clyst Ward. Stroke...
PATIENTS at North Devon District Hospital and community hospitals were given an opportunity to try different foods as part of Nutrition and Hydration Week 2016.
The global awareness campaign – from Monday 14 March to Sunday 20 March – aimed to highlight the importance of nutrition and hydration in improving the safety and outcomes of patients.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust ran different menu themes on each weekday:
A pioneering project is transforming the delivery of cancer follow-up care for people receiving treatment at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.
The Living With and Beyond Cancer project, involving the hospital, FORCE Cancer Charity and Macmillan Cancer Support, aims to provide support for patients from the point of diagnosis and redesign their follow-up care to help them take back control of their lives.
As part of the project, patients treated for cancer at the RD&E are already benefiting from support services provided by local cancer charity FORCE.
South West patients with long-term health conditions are getting to see health experts when they need to, in an exciting project driven by research.
Under the existing model of care, patients with conditions such as arthritis are given routine appointments that often take place when their symptoms are mild. Yet when their condition deteriorates it can be difficult to secure an urgent appointment.
Now, a new approach known as Patient Initiated Clinics is hoping to transform the delivery of care across the South West by putting patients in control. Instead of appointments...
The NHS Trust that runs Exeter Community Hospital in Whipton and community health and social care services across the city finished runner-up at a national awards ceremony for its work to resolve complaints at the earliest possible stage.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust was a finalist in the Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA), which took place at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
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...
GPs should consider a more overt discussion with patients when referring them for further investigation of symptoms which may indicate cancer, according to a paper published in the British Journal of General Practice.
In an NIHR-funded study, researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Durham and Exeter conducted interviews with patients being referred for possible lung and colorectal cancer.
They found that patients were rarely involved in the decision to be referred for investigation and that reasons for referral tended to be couched in non-specific terms...
