The clinical commissioning groups (CCG) took on the responsibilities of the former PCTs of NHS Devon, Plymouth and Torbay in April 2013.
[3] North, East and West Devon was one of three areas proposed for the new “success regime” by Simon Stevens in June 2015, in which NHS England will work in partnership with Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to tackle problems in the local health economy.
[4] In October 2017 it was announced that the four acute trusts in Devon were to share staff to help tackle workforce deficiencies and to support service standards for the wider population.
[10] In 2019, the Mannamead Surgery in Plymouth with a patient list of about 10,000 announced that it was abandoning its general medical services contract.
[11] Out-of-hours services are provided by Devon Doctors, a community interest company, which also runs the Mayflower Medical Group, six practices with about 40,000 patients.
Devon Clinical Commissioning Group is running a procurement for a new provider of the practices’ services from April 2022.
This decision was challenged by Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust which had been providing these services and in February 2015 Monitor announced that it would investigate this complaint.
As of 2015, the sites that could be affected were: In May 2021 Devon Clinical Commissioning Group and Plymouth City Council established a 10-year contract for community, mental health and social care with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and the Livewell Southwest Community Interest Company.
[17] Mears Group won a contract to provide home care services for Devon County Council in March 2016.
[18] In January 2019, arrangements were concluded to enable social workers to access individual children’s electronic health records using the ECLIPSE management system developed with OLM Services.
This alerts nurses and social workers if a vulnerable child makes an unscheduled admittance to A&E, or a walk-in centre.
The leaked Sustainability and transformation plan for the county, intended to tackle a predicted funding gap of £572M in 2020/21, suggested that 600 hospital beds could go, and that most acute services, including the maternity unit, would move from Barnstaple to Exeter and Plymouth.
[23] North East and West Devon had 250 patients, the highest number in England, waiting more than 12 months for treatment in November 2018.
[28] According to Rebecca Harriott, chief officer of the NEW Devon Clinical Commissioning Group because of the significant ageing population in the area "we’re experiencing now what many health economies won’t experience for another 20 years’ time in terms of the demographics.”[29] In December 2014, the CCG announced that in the case of routine surgery for morbidly obese patients – with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 35 – the patient would be required to have a BMI of under 35 or to lose 5 per cent of their weight before planned surgery, whichever is the lesser weight loss.
[32] The CCG announced that it was caving in to the pressure and would no longer impose a ban, but would "further promote smoking cessation and weight loss services to improve outcomes for patients".
[35] The success regime board headed by Ruth Carnall estimated in February 2016 that without change services in NEW Devon would be in deficit of £442 million by 2020/1.
[38] Ben Bradshaw MP for Exeter complained that the chronic shortage of appropriate accommodation for young people and the chaos and confusion was caused by the Government’s disastrous reorganisation of the NHS "because there are now so many different organisations involved in commissioning and providing services, no-one takes ultimate responsibility.
[41] The waiting list continued to rise after the contract had been given back to an NHS consortium – Children and Family Health Devon.