Nursing and midwifery staff at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust are bringing back the hospital badge, with the chosen designed unveiled at Tuesday’s #WeCare Nursing and Midwifery Conference.
Our senior nursing and midwifery team worked in collaboration with Plymouth College of Art, asking the students to come up with designs for two badges. The badges will be awarded to all registered and...
A highly-successful campaign to recruit Healthcare Assistants to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust has been shortlisted for a national award.
The Recruitment and Resourcing Team, who are based in the Norwich Union (NU) building at Derriford, have been shortlisted down to the final three in the Category 9 The HSJ award for strategic approach to recruitment of the national HPMA Excellence in...
Stagecoach South West has announced it will be promoting the recent service improvements to its flagship Gold bus service with two roadshows during half term week (week commencing 26 May 2014).
Responding to passenger demand, Stagecoach has doubled the frequency of the service’s Torquay to Plymouth connection with buses now running to up to every half hour, 6 days a week and an hourly...
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, has celebrated Nurses’ Day 2014 with constituent and outstanding nurse Sarah Lewis at a reception held in Parliament.
Sarah Lewis, a Pain Management Nurse at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court, won both the Nursing Standard Defence Nursing Award 2014 and the overall Nurse of the Year 2014 Award.
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and Alzheimer’s Society are collaborating on a special event at Drake Circus Shopping Centre on Thursday 22 May as part of Dementia Awareness Week (18 to 24 May).
The focus of this year’s Dementia Awareness Week is on ‘opening up’ and encouraging people who are concerned about dementia-related issues to talk about their worries rather than bottling...
Residents in the Stonehouse area being asked what they think about a police request for new powers to tackle the anti-social street drinking.
The Council’s Licensing Committee has given the go-ahead for a public consultation on a Designated Public Places Order (DPPO) covering Marlborough Street, Devonport and surrounding area. The area would extend from Mount Wise waterfront up to...
A scientist who has showcased the delicate beauty of plankton through film and photography has now turned to fashion for his latest project with a little help from Paul Smith.
Dr Richard Kirby, a Research Fellow in the Marine Institute at Plymouth University, has worked with the global fashion company to create swimming shorts sporting the iconic imagery of his Ocean Drifters.
A woman with a severe, life threatening allergy has started a support group to help support others affected by severe allergies, or anaphylaxis.
Katy Hannaford, from Newton Ferrers, Plymouth, has a severe drug allergy herself and is also carer to her daughter 12-year-old daughter, Alicia, who has multiple severe allergies.
Food allergies are thought to affect around 5-8% of...
American musicians will be playing close to the Mayflower Steps at the Barbican International Jazz & Blues Festival 2014.
Mississippi blues guitar-man Robin Henkel will headline the event, which takes place from June 13-15 on The Barbican, close to where the Pilgrims left for the New World in 1620.
The Festival’s music programme is due to run between noon and 9pm on...
