Visiting information

The Royal Devon provides open visiting across its hospitals offering greater flexibility for visitors.

Visitors are encouraged to visit between the hours of 9am and 10pm, if outside of these hours they are asked to confirm this approach with the nurse in charge of that area.

Although the Trust’s visiting policy has been updated to reflect these new hours, core elements remain unchanged including numbers of visitors allowed and exceptions to normal hours.

There will be times when colleagues will need to ask visitors to leave the ward for treatments, care and tests. Visitors are also asked to help us enhance mealtimes by supporting nutrition and hydration intake and not disrupting or delaying these.

We ask that all visitors abide by our visitor charters which clearly explain the expectations for both visitors and colleagues. They can be found below and are also displayed in patient areas.

• Adult inpatient wards
• Children and neonatal
• Critical care
• Day care
• Maternity