Health & Beauty

New campaign to raise awareness of organ donation law change

NHS Blood and Transplant launches the year-long national campaign, ‘Pass it on’, to increase awareness and understanding of the organ donation law change, which comes into place next year, across England.

From spring 2020, all adults in England will be considered as having agreed to donate their own organs when they die unless they record a decision not to donate or are in one of the...

Popular hospital enhances its green credentials

Members of staff at popular hospital Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre in Plymouth are wielding garden tools in a bid to ‘green-up’ its site.

They are doing this in response to suggestions from patients and visitors who felt that the green areas of the hospital’s grounds could be made more attractive. Members of staff had also called for an initiative to improve the hospital’s...

How to Transform Your Life This Spring

If your New Year’s resolutions didn’t go to plan, don’t be disheartened. Spring is here, and as the flowers shoot up around you, it’s the perfect opportunity to give yourself a new beginning. We lead busy lives, and it’s very easy to get bogged down in the everyday challenges and same-old routines, but we need to remember that we’re in control. Every day is a chance to try again and create the...

Silver award makes Louise a shining example!

A weight-loss expert from Crownhill has won a sparking silver award for the exceptional work she’s does in helping more than 200 people in the area to lose weight every week.

Louise, who runs The Future Inn Crownhill Slimming World groups, has been given the ‘Silver’ status by the national slimming club because of her success in supporting local slimmers to reach their dream weight,...

8 beauty tips to get you ready for summer

The clocks may have only just changed, and we might not have reached Easter yet, but it’s still not too early to be thinking – and dreaming - about summer. The long days and warm evenings of the summer months will soon be upon us, and there are a number of ways in which you can start getting yourself ready for the heatwave from a beauty point of view.

From preparing your hair for its...

Patient Data Protection and Technology

There are a number of things that are constantly in and out of the news. One of them is the National Health Service (NHS), due to a number of issues that have been happening across the board, such as high waiting times, lack of staff and in some cases, privatisation.

Another issue that’s popped up recently is data sharing, particularly in the age of GDPR, which has hit industries in...

University Hospitals Plymouth celebrate treating 100th lung cancer patient with specialist technique

The Radiotherapy and Oncology teams at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust are celebrating having successfully treated their 100th lung cancer patient using Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiotherapy (SABR).

SABR is a specialist technique that provides precise high dose radiotherapy treatment to patients with early peripheral lung cancer over a shorter period of time. In 2018,...

Heat-Not-Burn (HNB) Cigarettes: All that you need to know

HNB cigarettes are commonly confused with the e-cigarettes. However, they are not the same although they have some similarities in effects. Combustible cigarettes have been in the limelight for many decades and are known to cause various health issues to people in the long run. After the introduction of e-cigarettes, which are healthier, the tobacco cigarette industry decided to make what...

Farmers open up about their experience of depression and the battle for their own mental health

Living well is the key to farming well and leading farm safety charity, the Farm Safety Foundation, is highlighting the importance of farmers looking after their mental health in the second Mind Your Head week which takes place from 11-15 February 2019.

There are a number of mental health risk factors associated with agriculture. Farmers work long hours, often in isolation. They can be...

Maternity care in Plymouth continues to be highly rated by mothers

The maternity care at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust continues to be highly rated by mothers, according to a national survey published today. In some areas, our Trust has been rated as one of the top performing nationally.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) National Maternity Survey is a nationwide review of all aspects of maternity care. Nearly 5,000 women have some or all of...

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