JOB DESCRIPTION AND FURTHER DETAILS OF THE POSTS ...

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