health

Library offers help on healthy work/life balance

Plymouth Central Library is hosting an event on Friday 26 April where people can get help with finding work or advice on maintaining a healthy work/life balance.

The ‘Healthy Working Lives’ event, which will run from 11.30am to 2pm, will provide useful information about health and wellbeing for people in work, as well as training and employment opportunities for those who are looking...

Campaign launched to tackle illegal tobacco trade

An organisation funded by all 14 Primary Care Trusts in the South West to reduce smoking rates in the region has revealed that 1 in 20 (5.2%) of smokers in Devon now smoke illegal tobacco, a trade with a retail value equivalent of £211m in the South West alone.

Smokefree South West has launched a multi-partnership initiative alongside HMRC, Trading Standards, the Police, Crimestoppers...

Funding boost for NHS work to tackle waiting lists for routine care in Devon and neighbouring counties

The NHS in Devon has received a funding boost from a national programme to support its work in tackling long waiting lists for eye and joint surgery caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Health and care partners in the county are receiving £11.3million from the new national Accelerator Systems Programme (ASP) to spend on three initiatives aimed at further reducing waiting times for...

Indian Head Massage Workshop in Plymouth

Learn to perform Indian Head Massage on friends and family! On this fun, one-day workshop in Mannamead, in Plymouth, you will learn massage techniques to use on the upper back, shoulders, arms, neck and scalp, and put it all together into a full 25 - 30 minute treatment. Class sizes are small (from 4 to 6 people), so you will have plenty of individual attention and practice, plus the chance to follow up after the workshop if you're unsure of anything. Ideal for the complete beginner or as a refresher day for therapists.

Indian Head Massage is a lovely skill, either as a full...

NHS in Devon welcomes call to tackle public health issues

The NHS in Devon has welcomed the launch of a new national website to help councils and the NHS tackle public health challenges.

Rebecca Harriott, chief officer of Northern, Eastern and Western Devon Clinical Commissioning Group, said the website, which provides statistics on the number of premature and avoidable deaths from public health issues such as smoking, will help identify the...

Green spaces may boost wellbeing for city dwellers

New research published in the journal Psychological Science has found that people living in urban areas with more green space tend to report greater wellbeing than city dwellers that don’t have parks, gardens, or other green space nearby.

The research has been led by Dr Mathew White from the University of Exeter Medical School’s European Centre for Environment & Human Health, in...

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