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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of NHS services in Torbay. It runs Torbay Hospital . The area is seen as pioneering in the English NHS because of the work done with Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust to integrate health and social care. In November 2013 it was selected as one of 14 Pioneer site for integrated care development.
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The former South Devon Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust took over Torbay and Southern Devon Health and Care NHS Trust forming a new organisation in October 2015. It is the first organisation in England which provides both acute and community healthcare and adult social care services.
Management
The Trust's Chief Executive, Dr Paula Vasco-Knight, was suspended in February 2014 after allegations that she improperly gave her daughter's boyfriend a job as equality and diversity manager in July 2012 were upheld by an Employment tribunal. This followed the resignation of the Trust Chair Peter Hildrew, and his acting replacement Topsy Murray. Following the tribunal Dr Vasco-Knight resigned from her position as NHS England’s national lead for equality and diversity. She resigned from the Trust in June 2014.
Mairead McAlinden, former Chief Executive of the Southern Health and Social Care Health Trust was appointed Chief Executive in January 2015.
Performance
The Trust did very well in the 2014 cancer patient experience survey and has agreed to pair up with North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust, which did badly, in a scheme intended to “spread and accelerate innovative practice via peer to peer support and learning”.
The trust was one of 26 responsible for half of the national growth in patients waiting more than four hours in accident and emergency over the 2014/5 winter.