As 2014 gets into full swing, Macmillan Cancer Support in Devon is reflecting on donations made in 2013 and how they will make a difference to people living with a cancer diagnosis locally.
People in Devon gave £948,504 to Macmillan last year, allowing the charity to provide vital new services to people affected by cancer in 2014. Macmillan’s flagship fundraising event, the World’s...
Derriford Hospital welcomed a group of more than 30 student nurses from the ISF Quimper-Corouaille Nursing School, Brittany.
The second and third year nursing students who are on a European Work Exchange programme in Devon were keen to visit an acute Trust in the area so were invited to Derriford Hospital on Thursday 3 April 2014.
A team of healthcare professionals who run a ‘Great Expectations’ programme for parents-to-be are this week filled with their own great expectations as they prepare to find out whether they have won a national award.
The team, part of Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, have been shortlisted down to the final three in the Team of the Year category of the British Journal of Midwifery Awards...
A juice bar opened at Derriford Hospital yesterday (Monday).
The launch coincides with NHS Change Day and is a key part of the Trust's commitment to improve staff and patient health and wellbeing, by improving the availability of healthier food and drink choices.
Chief Executive Ann James has pledged, for NHS Change Day, saying: “We will support patients, staff &...
Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust is recognised as one of the top NHS providers of apprenticeships in the South West, with over 50 placements across the Trust in the last year.
Next week, as part of National Apprenticeship Week, staff, apprentices, mentors and local training provider Learn Direct will welcome a group of young people from the local area for an information open day to give...
Dr Daniel Poulter MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, visited Derriford Hospital today, to meet with staff and see the services provided.
Dr Poulter has worked as an NHS hospital doctor specialising primarily in obstetrics, gynaecology and women’s health. He continues to practice medicine as an NHS hospital doctor on a part-time basis as well as serving as an MP and...
Derriford Hospital's diabetes service for young people has been recognised as best in the West Country and one of the top performing units in the country for reducing the risk of young people developing diabetic complications, according to data published by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Results recently published in the national paediatric diabetes audit for 2011-...
The Chest Clinic at Derriford Hospital is appealing for the return of respiratory equipment that is no longer needed by the patient it was issued to, so it can be given to a patient who needs it.
Beverley Castell, Sister of the Chest Clinic, said: “We are looking for equipment, such as nebulisers, compressors or CPAP machines, which are no longer being used by the patients they were...
A golf day, organised by the friends and family of the late Mark Sayers, raised £550 for the Oncology Department at Derriford Hospital.
The golf day was held on Sunday 25 August 2013 at the 9-hole course at Sparkwell, in memory of Mark, who lost his three-year battle with throat cancer in May 2013.
More than 30 golfers took part in the morning. The fundraising continued into...
