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Devon Health currently provides a range of services including:
- Study days. Providing cover for GP practices while they close for training sessions.
- In hours message handling. Providing telephone cover for GP practices during lunch periods and afternoons.
- Information on 999 patients not conveyed to hospital. This information is provided to the patients’ GP practices so they’re informed about patients that may be struggling at home.
- Locum agency. Locum-finding service for practices requiring GP cover.
- Acute care GP service. Offering community-based GPs an alternative to hospital admission through a GP working in the acute hospital setting.
- 8am-8pm GP-led health centres. Management of the 8am to 8pm GP-led health centres in Plymouth and Torbay.
- Acute Care GP services. Providing GP-led admissions avoidance schemes in Taunton, Yeovil and Exeter hospitals.
- Community Hospitals. Providing GP-led medical cover at Williotn Hospital in Somerset.
- Dressing clinics. Clinics allowing patient who are more mobile to attend hospitals for dressings changes and injections.
- Physiotherapy appointments. Providing patient appointment services and other therapy appointment bookings.
- Hospital discharge to the community. Arranging all district nurse visits after discharge from local hospitals.
- Secure service scheme. An in-hours GP service for patients excluding from normal general medical practice.
- East Devon single point of access service
- Police forensics examinations service
- Peninsula Medical School / Deanery. Supporting the Peninsula Medical School and the Deanery with its GP training out of hours.
- Out-of-hours cover the Devon prisons and HM forces. Providing out-of-hours medical cover for the three Devon prisons, and out-of-hours medical cover for the Army, Navy and Air Force across Devon.
- Occupational health services. Across Devon, Cornwall and the Scilly Isles.
- Children’s hospice services. At Little Bridge House and Charlton Farm.
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