A COUCH for use by clinics at Crediton Hospital, paid for by Crediton Hospital League of Friends and its Community Patients, is now in use. It cost £1,250.
Claire Sprague, Hospital Administrator for Crediton, Okehampton and Moretonhampstead Hospitals, explained that couches were having to be moved between rooms at Crediton.
“The new couch means that we have a couch in each of the clinic rooms and it has been used by paediatrics, maternity, and bladder and bowel to name but a few of the clinics.
“It came at exactly the right time to really help the clinics and the admin team as the hospital is getting busier all the time,” she said.
Clinics now held there include - Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Community nurses, Community therapy, Urgent response, Midwives, Chronic kidney disease, New-born hearing, Audiology, Bladder and bowel, Cardia support, AAA screening, Parkinson’s nurses, Sleep clinic, Stoma clinic, Retinal eye screening, Care of the Elderly, Speech and language for adults and children and the MS nurse. The AA support group has returned to two evenings a week.
Claire added that the Royal Devon and Exeter has merged with North Devon to make a new Trust now called the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
It covers an area stretching from Exeter to Barnstaple, serving nearly one million people in more than 20 community sites and now has about 17,000 staff.
The League of Friends is able to offer funding for some projects that fit the criteria that includes wellbeing and health. To know more check its website or Facebook page.
Sue Read