The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Royal Devon) is looking for people who are keen to stand as candidates for election as one of the Trust’s Public Governors. This year sees the first election to the Trust’s Council of Governors since the Royal Devon was established in April 2022, following the integration of

From today (Friday 1 April 2022), the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) have formally merged to become the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The new Trust has two acute and 20 community hospitals, and cares for a population of almost one million. It

Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) and the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) will merge on 1 April 2022 to become the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The integration has been formally approved by the NDHT and RD&E Boards, the RD&E’s Council of Governors, NHS Improvement and the Secretary of

If you have had experience of online and video appointments with hospitals and GPs or been invited to a consultation but not wanted to attend, then Devon Communities Together would like to hear from you.  To find out more and how you can get involved click here. 

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust (NDHT) are delighted to announce the appointment of Dame Shan Morgan as Chair.   Dame Shan will take up her role on 1 April 2022. The two organisations are proposing to merge on this date to combine their resources and expertise

Voting in the elections to the Council of Governors closed at 5pm on 21 September 2021 and we can now declare the results as follows: East Devon Dorset Somerset & Rest of England – 3 to elect, all for terms of two years Kay Foster and Barbara Sweeney re-elected Heather Penwarden newly elected Current Governor Bob Maskell

Nominations for this year’s elections closed on 11 August  2021. We now move to a vote in two of our three public constituencies, East Devon, Dorset & Somerset & Rest of England,  Mid, North, West Devon & Cornwall and our Staff Constituency. Ballot packs were sent to members in these constituencies on 27 August 2021 

For an overview of developments at the RD&E over the course of 2020/21. Read the update from the Trust’s Chair, James Brent.

The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust (RD&E) is looking for people who are keen to stand as candidates for election as one of the Trust’s Public Governors. RD&E Governors play a vitally important role providing a direct connection between the Trust, the community it serves and its partners.  Existing RD&E Governors have a

Researchers in Devon are recruiting around 150 participants to a world-first clinical trial which assesses the effect of a third ‘booster’ dose of Covid-19 vaccine. The Cov-Boost study will give people a third dose of a vaccine to see whether it offers better protection against the virus than the standard two injections. The government funded