Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, will welcome members back to its fitness and wellbeing centres across England on 25th July, including 26 centres across the South West of England. To ensure its sites are safe for both members and employees, Nuffield Health have implemented a number of changes, following guidance from UK Active, the UK government, Public Health England and...
A Plymouth hospital has invested in the latest cutting-edge technology to ensure even greater safety for patients attending an Outpatient Department appointment.
Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre has installed a multi-function M8 Healthcare Monitor machine. The very latest of its type, the machine can read a patient’s height, weight, pulse and blood pressure, and calculate their Body...
Fans of Prezzo in Plymouth will be excited to hear that we are opening on Friday 17th July.
To celebrate our doors being open again, diners will be able to enjoy some new additions to the menu; a new calamari recipe, four new pizzas (including veggie and vegan options), a new chicken burger, plus new cocktails and coolers! And……after performing well in our test restaurants at the...
In good news for the 100,000 patients who undergo the procedure in the UK each year, traction - a technique known to the military surgeons of Ancient Greece - could become an integral part of modern knee replacement surgery, according to a study published in the International Journal of Orthopaedics.
The study was carried out at the Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre, Plymouth, UK, by...
At the end of July Effervescent - the local charity that collaborates with vulnerable children and young people to co-produce creative campaigns - will be moving out of Radiant Gallery in Plymouth.
Since Effervescent took over the space in 2014 and converted it from an abandoned bank into an art gallery, studio space, creative offices and RumpusCosy café they have welcomed thousands of...
A clever online scam that’s been around for years has seen a resurgence in Plymouth in the last few weeks – because everyone’s using their webcams more.
The so-called “sextortion” scam fools staff into thinking they’ve been filmed by their own webcam while visiting adult websites.
Some choose to pay up to £1,000 in Bitcoin to prevent the videos being released.
A Plymouth teenager has been honoured with a Diana Award for her contribution to the city’s Together for Childhood programme, which aims to prevent child sexual abuse.
Tegan Tunnicliffe, 18, has been commended for her ongoing work helping to protect children and young people from harm at a virtual ‘red carpet’ event this afternoon, the first in the ceremony’s history.
Eight people in Plymouth were celebrating over the weekend after winning £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode.
The Tailyour Road neighbours netted the windfall when PL6 5DJ was announced as a Daily Prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery on Saturday 13th June 2020.
People’s Postcode Lottery ambassador Judie McCourt sent her well-wishes to the winners. She said: “...
