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Plans for Teignmouth Hospital closure to be reviewed as Health Secretary Sajid Javid intervenes

By Will Goddard

12th Nov 2021 | Local News

Teignmouth Hospital (Image: Google Maps)

Plans to close Teignmouth Hospital will be reviewed by independent experts after an intervention by the Health Secretary.

The community hospital on Mill Lane was the first to be built by the NHS after it was established 73 years ago but was facing closure, with services moving to Dawlish Hospital and a new £8 million health centre in Teignmouth town centre.

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Dawlish: South Western Ambulance Service has 'never experienced such a long period of sustained demand', says boss

By Will Goddard

12th Nov 2021 | Local News

Handover delays at hospitals were described as becoming "intolerable," with the service ranking the worst in the country for the time taken. Credit: LDRS

The ambulance service in Devon and across the South West has "never experienced such a long period of sustained demand" according to one of its bosses.

Jessica Cunningham, South Western Ambulance Service's executive director of operations, told Devon's health and adult care scrutiny the service had "broadly" been at its highest level of "escalation" since June and that total activity in Devon is 12 per cent higher than last year and nearly 20 per cent up on April this year.

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