Care Quality Commission (CQC) reports and ratings

The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a new organisation following the integration of the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust. The new organisation hasn't yet been inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

You can find out more about our previous inspections and reports below.

The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford)

The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford) retained its rating of ‘Good’ during the most recent Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019; and was designated as outstanding in a number of areas, including for ‘Caring’ generally and for our ‘Urgent and Emergency’, ‘Critical Care’ and ‘Renal’ services. You can read more here

North Devon District Hospital

The Care Quality Commission published a report on services at Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust in September 2019, following their inspection in May 2019. The inspection looked at urgent and emergency, maternity, end of life and outpatients services at North District Devon Hospital and community inpatient services at South Molton.

The report recognised that there had been significant positive changes since the previous inspection in October 2017, but kept the overall rating as ‘requires improvement’.

You can read more here