JOB DESCRIPTION AND FURTHER DETAILS OF THE POSTS ...
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<strong>THE</strong> DEPARTMENTS (contd)<br />
Appendix B (contd)<br />
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General Surgery and SAU<br />
The Department of Surgery is based at the North Devon District Hospital and is staffed by eight Consultant<br />
Surgeons. The middle grade staffing comprises of three Associate Specialist, and three Specialist Registrars.<br />
The junior team is made up of 4 specialist trainees, 2 trust service doctors and 6 F1s doctors. The service has<br />
strong links with the both Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and RD&E Hospital in Exeter.<br />
There are two main surgical wards (King George V and Fortescue) with access to paediatric beds on the<br />
Children’s ward. There is a fully equipped and dedicated Day Case Unit. The Roborough Suite is a private<br />
patient facility sited in the main hospital complex.<br />
The Trust has a Vascular Nurse Specialist in post and a Vascular Sonographer providing a full Duplex Vascular<br />
Service. The X-ray department provides all modalities of Vascular Imaging.<br />
Emergencies in General Surgery and Urology are admitted out of hours by the surgical on-call team, urology<br />
patients are transferred the following morning.<br />
Academic meetings, which embrace various aspects of surgical diagnosis and management, are held on a<br />
regular basis throughout the week. There is a Surgical Department and Pathology meeting on Friday<br />
afternoons, Directorate meetings once a month and regular academic activities such as the Grand Ward<br />
Round and Surgical Unit audit presentations by the General Surgeons and Urologists.<br />
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