Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust

Across Devon, our teams of care professionals work with patients and their families to support people’s independence, health and wellbeing. We provide support to avoid hospital admissions, and if an admission is necessary, we try to make each patient’s stay in hospital as short and effective as possible before working with them on a safe discharge home.In any 24 hours our health and social care community teams visit around 300 patients in their own homes to help them rehabilitate after illness or injury. At any one time, they are overseeing around 2500 people’s care.Our domiciliary care service, Devon Cares, works in partnership with high quality local care agencies to provide social care to people in their own homes.We are working hard to join up health and social care, improving the way people get home from hospital or receive support to remain independent in their own homes.Our values guide everything we do. At all times, we aim to:Demonstrate compassionStrive for excellenceRespect diversityAct with integrityListen and support othersIn our most recent staff survey, our staff voted us in the top 10% of NHS provider organisations to work for and we also came out as the top provider in the South West. Our patients (through the Friends and Family Test) regularly report an average of over 95% satisfaction with our services.The Care Quality Commission inspected our services in 2014 and found our community services to be ‘close to outstanding’ with inspectors wishing they lived in Devon. Our medical inpatient services at NDDH were the first to be judged as ‘outstanding’ by the CQC.According to many clinical targets, we rate as one of the best performing non-foundation trusts in England, because we treat patients in line with national waiting time standards, have very few hospital-acquired infections and meet our four-hour waiting times for urgent care.We achieve all this because we offer a wide range of hospital, outpatient, home-facing and specialist services across most of Devon. We have a huge range of clinical expertise that we share across professional spheres to ensure people get world-class care when they need it.