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A national report shows that Devon Primary Care Trust (PCT) met a range of stringent healthcare targets during 2006/07 – but says it must improve. The Healthcare Commission report, published today, rates both the quality of the trust’s services and its financial management systems as weak – despite it having turned a projected £22 million deficit into a small surplus in less than six months. But there was also good news for Devon patients. The Healthcare Commission report places the trust in the top third of healthcare organisations for meeting new national targets. These include meeting MRSA, quit smoking, cancer, Accident and Emergency and patient experience targets. Dr Kevin Snee, chief executive of Devon PCT, said the weak ratings were due to last year’s reorganisation of healthcare in the county. “Bringing six PCT organisations together to create one was a huge administrative task and because of this we did not always have the documented evidence to show we were reaching the standards required,” he said. “We have already begun to make real improvements in healthcare in Devon and recently announced plans for a new satellite renal unit in Honiton.“We are also building a new hospital in Newton Abbot and a new integrated health centre in Cullompton. “In addition, we are carrying out many more operations in our community hospitals and outpatients’ clinics are being provided closer to people’s homes. “We are confident that by next March when the Healthcare Commission assesses us again, it will see that these plans have made a real difference to patients in Devon.” The Healthcare Commission also awarded the trust positive ratings for access to a GP or primary care professional, access to sexual health services, monitoring childhood obesity.
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