Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust Clinical School
Linking research with practice to improve patient outcomes

The South West Clinical School at Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust exists to promote evidence-based practice and clinically-focused non-medical research that enhances patient care.
A partnership between the Trust and the University of Plymouth, the Clinical School encourages and supports nurses, midwives, and other allied health professionals to look at their practice, challenge current thinking, try out new ideas and work out ways to measure what they're doing.
Our objectives are to:
Clinical School Lead
Honorary Clinical School Associates
Honorary Clinical School Fellows
Research and Practice – The New Normal
How has the pandemic impacted innovation, research and practice? What will it look like in a post-Covid world? Join us (virtually) for this full-day event where clinical and academic professionals share their views and best practice of research-led practice. Speakers will look into pandemic-driven innovation in clinical practice including Covid trials, ethical challenges and innovations in practice.
Find out more and reserve your place.
As a clinical professor, it's a great privilege to mentor nurses to develop research skills alongside their 'day job' - science is everybody's business and the joy of that first publication or conference presentation is unforgettable.
The South West Clinical Schools are a collaboration between the University of Plymouth and the NHS, working with nurses, midwives, and allied health professionals at all stages of their clinical and academic development.
Our work with local health services has identified the urgent need to capture improvements in patient and family outcomes, as well as ensure that existing evidence is used to best develop the research led by non-medical health professionals. To meet these needs, we have invested in clinical schools, which are professorial-led centres, in five of our local NHS trusts. The main focus for the clinical schools is to encourage health professionals to look at their practice, challenge current thinking, try out new ideas and work out ways to measure what they're doing.
Find out more about the South West Clinical Schools.