2020-2022 Archives - Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Autumn / Winter 2022 (1 December 2022)
Devon Partnership NHS Trust’s new mental health ward, Salus, opens at Torbay Hospital. The £12.5m project provides a range of facilities, including treatment and therapy rooms, a family room, 16 en-suite bedrooms as well as offices for staff, a main re

2022 (1 December 2022)
We agreed the sale of the former Dartmouth and Kingswear Community Hospital site to Dartmouth Town Council to fund the building of the new Health and Wellbeing Centre in the town and to support the use of the site to deliver social value to local communit

May 2022 (1 December 2022)
We were successful in securing the Torbay ‘Drug and Alcohol Treatment Service’ as part of the ‘Alliance Agreement for Support Services for Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Domestic Abuse and the Homeless Hostel’.

June 2021 (1 December 2022)
Building work started on a new £4.8m Health and Wellbeing Centre in Dartmouth.

March 2021 (1 December 2022)
Construction work started on our new £15million Acute Medical Unit at Torbay Hospital. This modern and fit-for-purpose unit is split over two levels and allows for patients with different needs to be treated in the most appropriate setting.

March 2020 (1 December 2022)
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared. We will never forget the support our communities and people gave us.Torbay Pharmaceuticals began to make hand sanitiser to meet demand.

January 2020 (1 December 2022)
We started to use the Stericycle system to reduce our use of single use plastics. Since 2020, this has resulted in us saving over 13,000 containers from incineration and saved almost 76,000 kgs of carbon.