Three military junior doctors from Derriford Hospital will face a challenge of a lifetime next month when they take part in the Arctic Winter Race, Rovaniemi 150.
Next month, representing all three of the armed services, Flight Lieutenant Michael Thompson, Surgeon Lieutenant Alex Bamford and Captain George Graham, will travel to Lapland to take part in the gruelling challenge, which...
Every baby cared for in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Derriford Hospital will receive a beautifully hand-made Christmas stocking this Christmas Eve, thanks to the hard work and good will of young people at a local out of school business club.
Twenty hand-made stockings were handed over to staff on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit today by representatives and students of Whiz...
A kind-hearted Plymouth charity, brought some cheer and cuddles to our children’s wards last week.
Representatives from the Becca’s Bear charity dropped in to the Activity Centre on level 12 on Wednesday (11 December), to deliver teddy bears for donation to children on the wards.
Santa and the Build-A-Bear mascot, Bearemy were also on hand to help with distributing the bears...
Serco has won a three-year extension to its hotel services contract with Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust. The extension is worth £42 million and means that the contract will now continue until September 2019.
Employing 650 people in Plymouth, Serco provides a range of facilities management services including cleaning services, patient catering, retail catering, portering services, and a...
Specialist nurses from the Diabetes Centre at Derriford Hospital have been offering advice on the prevention and early detection of diabetes, on World Diabetes Day.
The nurses manned displays in the main concourse at Derriford Hospital and at Asda Superstore in Plymouth. They were joined by dieticians from the hospital, nurses from Research in Diabetes and third year students from the...
A 75-year-old local woman has died following a serious collision on the A395 near Camelford in Cornwall.
Police and other emergency services were called to the incident at the junction of an unclassified road signed St Clether and the A395 at Hallworthy at around 11.10am on Tuesday 12 November. The collision involved two cars – a red Peugeot 206 and a blue VW Passat.
Police are appealing for witnesses after a motorcyclist was seriously injured on the A38 on Monday evening (11 November 2013).
Shortly after 7.15pm a Yamaha motorcycle and red Nissan Qashqai were involved in a collision on the southbound carriageway of the A38 at Wrangaton, South Brent.
The male motorcyclist was taken to Derriford Hospital with life threatening injuries and...
Plymouth NHS Hospitals Trust has marked World Radiography Day, by recognising the work of its specialist imaging staff.
World Radiography Day is celebrated on 8 November each year. The date marks the anniversary of the discovery of x-radiation by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895.
Dr Phil Hughes, Medical Director and Consultant Radiologist, said: “The radiology department at Derriford...
Reducing the number of patients who experience a Surgical Site Infection (SSI) could hit hospitals financially, new research has found.
The research, led by Consultant Microbiologist Dr Peter Jenks from Plymouth, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Hospital Infection. It is available on their website.
Surgical Site Infections – infections which develop at the...
