July 2015 (23 January 2023)
A groundbreaking ceremony took place to mark the official start of building work on an exciting £15m project to deliver a brand new, state-of-the-art critical care unit at Torbay Hospital. The project also included a new main entrance with a café and a

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October 2019 (1 December 2022)
The Government confirmed that Torbay Hospital is one of 40 hospitals across the country to receive a share of £3.7 billion in the ‘biggest hospital building programme in a generation’.The funding will be used to build hospital facilities to suppo

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October 2019 (1 December 2022)
Torbay Hospital reopened two of its surgical theatres after major modernisation. The £2.3m refurbishment installed up-to-date air handling equipment, among other improvements.

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May 2019 (1 December 2022)
Our brand new £800k Friends Centre in Brixham officially opened. We worked in partnership with Brixham Community Hospital’s League of Friends (who donated the full £800k for the centre to be built) and Brixham Does Care to bring together day care, hea

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1 April 2019 (1 December 2022)
The Children and Family Health Devon service was launched providing community services for children, young people and their families. We are proud to be the lead partner in the group of organisations which form this important service.

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February 2019 (1 December 2022)
As part of our commitment to NHS zero carbon, we’re doing as much as we can to reduce our carbon emissions, including reducing emissions from surgical gases. We took Desflurane off the anaesthetic machines in February 2019 and since then we have saved C

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February 2019 (1 December 2022)
We began to provide care even closer to home, through the use of video technology by our health and social care community teams.

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September 2018 (1 December 2022)
We performed out first day case hip replacement. We were one of the first five hospitals in the country to perform day case hip replacements and we were the first hospital to do so in the southwest. This was closely followed by our first day case total kn

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May 2018 (1 December 2022)
We were the first health and social care provider in the world to earn the status of ‘Purple Angel dementia-aware’.

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April 2018 (1 December 2022)
An £8million project was completed at Torbay Hospital to provide new state-of-the-art cancer targeting Linear Accelerators otherwise known as LINACs. A LINAC is a machine that delivers specific ionising radiation to kill cancer cells, this is known a

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