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Choosing the right service when you are unwell or injured helps you to get the care you need as soon as possible. It also reduces pressure on emergency services, freeing them up to help those who need it most.
Outpatients and cancelling/rearranging appointments
Please call the number on your appointment letter to change or cancel your appointment.
This will get you through to the most appropriate department. Alternatively, you can contact our main switchboard and ask for the department you require.
For more information, visit our Outpatients and Appointments page
Interpretation services
The Royal Devon is committed to providing interpretation and translation services for those who need them. Please let us know when booking your appointment if you would like an interpreter and we can arrange this for you.
You can also contact the department you are attending or our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) if you have any questions.
Wards and clinical services
Please visit our Wards and Services A-Z to locate the ward / clinical service you need.
Hospitals and community sites
Please visit 'Our sites and getting here' pages to locate the hospital / specialist centre you need.
These pages include contact details and travel information.
How to give us feedback
Please visit 'Your feedback matters' to give feedback or send a short thank you.
Your compliments, comments and complaints (PALS)
If you would like to speak with us about your visit or stay, please contact the Patient Advice & Liaison Service (PALS) team.
Media contact
The Trust has a Communications Office as the point of contact for all media enquiries – from breaking news and patient condition checks to requests for interviews and specialist features.
To protect patient confidentiality, dignity and respect, and to ensure that frontline health care services are not disrupted, all media enquiries should come to the Communications Office (not direct to wards or individual staff members).
No filming or photography can take place on any Trust site without permission having been given first by the Communications office or duty manager.
Opening hours:
The Communications Office is available Monday to Friday, 8.30am until 5pm, except on Bank or Public Holidays.
Email:
Outside office hours:
Media representatives should call the hospital switchboard and ask for the comms on-call manager.
- 01392 411611 - Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford)
- 01271 322577 - North Devon District Hospital
Governors
To contact a Governor, please email rduh.royaldevonmembers@nhs.net, stating who your message is for.
Membership
To find out more about becoming a member, please click here.
Website feedback
To feedback about this website, or to inform us about a problem with the site, please contact us on:
Email: rduh.comms@nhs.net
If your query is related to a compliments, comments and complaints please go to the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) section.
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Placements for medical undergraduates at NDDH
Please contact the Medical Education Centre (for placements for medical undergraduates at NDDH only) by e-mail at rduh.medicalstudents@nhs.net
For vacancies, apprenticeships, work experience, staff bank etc. please visit the Join us section.
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