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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has been ranked 7th in the country for its procurement and supply chain management, according to NHS Improvement.

The NHS Procurement League Table, published this month, measures each NHS Trust’s performance in the purchasing and ordering of goods and supplies, comparing specific indicators such as the purchase price achieved for certain products...

A Dartmoor Village is developing a redundant phone box into micro-museum in memory of those from the parish that died in the Great War.

For many years the moorland community of Princetown have battled to save the BT payphones in their remote village from being decommissioned. Earlier this year BT agreed to keep one of the phone boxes in Princetown and offer the other box to the...

The parents of a Devon boy who died from flu in January this year say they are overwhelmed by massive public support for their vaccination campaign, and are urging people to keep spreading the message.

The #ThumbsUpForCoby flu vaccination message, named after nine-year-old Coby Simons, has reached approximately 200,000 people nationwide on social media since it was launched by his...

The need for the government to secure future shipbuilding work at the threatened Appledore shipyard will be the key demand at a rally in Bideford, Devon on Saturday (27 October).

Fears are growing about the future of Appledore which employs 200 workers, following media reports that the owners, engineering giant Babcock International is poised to shut the 163-year-old shipyard....