“Out of hours doctors care is to undergo some radical changes in Devon with the number of treatment centres being reduced and others having no overnight service.
Exmouth will entirely lose its treatment centre at Exmouth Hospital, as will Teignmouth, while other areas such Tiverton will see its hours significantly reduced.
As of October 3, they will reduce to nine, and some centres will no longer have out of hours services between 12am and 8am, such as Tiverton and Honiton.
It is also believed the amount of Devon Doctor cars to cover the region from 12am to 8am will be reduced by two. This will leave four cars to undertake home visits and return the their bases to see previous arranged treatment patients.
And a spokesperson said :- In Exmouth, there is NHS services available. The hospital is there and the minor injuries unit, and patients will be offered to attend Exeter treatment centre.
“There will still be overnight urgent care. Patients with a clinical need who are not able to get to a treatment centre will still receive a home visit as they do now.”
Source: Bay FM, Facebook
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I guess we just have to hope that e.g. we don’t get accute appendicitus at 12:10am and have to wait 8 hours in agony.
And I do wonder whether this is really cost effective – would the cost of handling the complications resulting from several hours delay outweigh the savings?
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