Specialization Of Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (wonford)
Orthopedics
Paediatrics
Plastic Surgery
About Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (wonford)
When we became one of the country’s first foundation trusts in April 2004 the RD&E reaffirmed its reputation as a leading acute hospital trust. We were also building upon a tradition of providing quality healthcare services for local people that goes back over 250 years.
The RD&E provides acute hospital services to around 350,000 people in Exeter, East Devon and Mid Devon, and offers specialist services such as cancer care, plastic and reconstructive surgery, orthopaedic surgery, paediatric care and renal services to people living further afield in Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, Dorset and Somerset.
Most of the RD&E’s services, including specialist units such as the West of England Eye Unit and the internationally renowned Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Centre, are based at our main hospital at Wonford. The new Centre for Women’s Health, encompassing maternity, neonatology and gynaecology services, relocated from the nearby Heavitree Hospital to a new purpose-built unit at Wonford in June 2007. Heavitree Hospital continues to provide a range of outpatient services, as well as accommodation for the Learning and Development team, and the new Peninsula Medical School dental school.
The RD&E also runs the Honeylands Children’s Centre (for specialist assessment and support for children with special needs and their families), the Exeter Mobility Centre (providing orthotics, prosthetics, wheelchairs and special seating), and the Mardon Neuro-rehabilitation Centre.
Across these sites the Trust has more than 30 wards, 20 operating theatres, around 850 inpatient beds and 75 day case beds. During the year 2005/06 we spent around £275m and employed more than 5,800 people to provide healthcare services for the communities we serve. In that time nearly 3,000 babies were born here; over 62,500 people attended the emergency department; we cared for over 112,400 inpatient and daycases and 253,500 outpatients.
In planning and developing services to meet the healthcare needs of local people the RD&E works closely with the South West Strategic Health Authority, Devon Primary Care Trust, Devon Partnership Trust (mental health and learning disabilities), Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust, South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, the West of England Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) and Devon County Council social services.
The RD&E is a proud to be a partner in the Peninsula Medical School that links together the universities of Exeter and Plymouth with the local NHS.
