Service Description: The Department provides anaesthesia for approximately 20,000 procedures each year. As well as general and regional anaesthesia the department is also heavily involved with the care of patients in the ICU/HDU, the obstetric unit, in acute pain management and in the transfer of critically ill patients.
Service Location: The Anaesthetic Department is based at the North Devon District Hospital, where all anaesthetics are undertaken and is staffed by sixteen Consultants, two Associate Specialists (both part time), Staff Grades and trainee doctors.
