Health & Beauty

Why Maintenance Sessions Are Key for Long-Lasting HIFU Results

It’s common to hope that a single non-invasive treatment will deliver permanent results. With advances in aesthetic procedures, expectations can easily shift toward quick fixes that require little follow-up. However, when it comes to HIFU treatment , the real value lies in...

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Karting day raises £1,287 for Renal Unit

The Renal Unit at Derriford Hospital have received a donation of £1,287 from a patient who teamed up with his local free house to host a charity race day.

Dubbed “Wacky Races”, the event lived up to its billing with teams from Boscastle and the surrounding areas racing down Penally Hill in homemade karts. The race concluded at the Cobweb Inn, where an auction and hog roast helped to...

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Cutting-edge technique can predict severity of MRSA infection

Scientists from universities in the South West have proposed a pioneering technique to help predict the severity of MRSA infection, which could lead to more personalised treatment for individual patients.

An international collaboration of scientists, including Dr Mario Recker from the University of Exeter, have used genome sequencing to identify the toxicity of specific infections of...

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Devon GP says “if it’s not an emergency, try your family doctor or pharmacy”

A family doctor from Devon has urged people with a non-urgent medical problem to get in touch with their local GP practice or pharmacy rather than visit busy hospital emergency departments.

With the Easter Holidays in full swing and more people getting out and about in the sun, it is usual that hospital emergency departments see an increase in the number of attendees at this time of...

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Stem Cell Transplant Unit and Birch Day Case Unit opens

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust's state-of-the-art Stem Cell Transplant Unit and Birch Day Case Unit for blood cancer patients will be officially opened by patients, hospital staff and members of the Plymouth Leukaemia and District Fund (PDLF) tomorrow (Monday 14 April).

The Stem Cell Transplant Unit opened its doors last spring and the first patients started receiving their treatment...

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Bringing back the hospital badge

In recognition of the hard work and dedication of our nursing and midwifery staff, our senior nursing and midwifery team is bringing back the hospital badge.

The team have worked in collaboration with Plymouth College of Art, asking the students to come up with designs for two badges, which will be awarded to all registered and non-registered nursing and midwifery staff at Plymouth...

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REI to launch new Eye Movement clinic

The REI will be hosting a launch event for their new Eye Movement clinic on Friday 25 April 2014 at the Post Graduate Medical Centre in Derriford Hospital.

As part of the event, Professor Chris Harris (Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Plymouth) and members of the clinical team will give a series of talks on the eye movement disorder, nystagmus between 1pm and 4pm....

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Patients report high levels of confidence in those caring for them

According to the latest independent survey the majority of patients treated at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust feel they have been treated with dignity and respect and given emotional support during their episode of care. They also report high levels of confidence in those caring for them.

The Trust improved its score from the last inpatient survey in 2012 in 39 areas, also scoring higher...

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Hospital ‘one of the most scariest places to be’ for people with Parkinson’s

People with Parkinson’s are being subjected to ‘frustrating and scandalous’ standards of care in hospital new research from Parkinson’s UK has revealed.

From being forced to smuggle in medication to being subjected to shocking levels of drug deprivation by hospital staff, data commissioned to time with the launch of Parkinson’s Awareness Week paints a deeply disturbing picture of...

Hospital staff to support Healthy Plymouth event

Representatives from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust will be in attendance at this year’s Healthy Plymouth event, in the Plymouth City Centre Piazza on Saturday 12 April 2014. The event is a chance to meet and feedback to local health care organisations and will also feature cookery demos, live music and a variety of activities for the whole family.

The event is an opportunity to raise...

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MP organises dementia information session

Alison Seabeck MP is looking for members of the public to sign up to attend a Dementia Friends information session on Tuesday 15 April 2014.

The one-hour session, that will take place in Plymouth University at 2pm, is part of Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Friends programme, an initiative launched in February 2013 to help members of the public understand what it might be like to live...

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