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Heidi Hollands, a Research Midwife based at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, has attained a Master of Midwifery (MMid) qualification.

Heidi was awarded a merit by the University of Sheffield in March 2015. She was encouraged and supported by her team to pursue the course and completed the entirety of the work within her own personal time. Heidi said: “I now have an even better...

Health campaigners from Plymouth protested outside the constituency offices of local MP Johnny Mercer today, over his refusal to accept letters signed by hundreds of his constituents at his constituency office, calling on David Cameron to use his veto to protect the NHS from irreversible privatisation.

Campaigners from Plymouth were planning to hand in hundreds of letters from...

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust have announced the appointment of Professor Raymond Playford and Mr Mike Leece OBE to the Trust Board.

Both have been appointed to serve as Non Executive Directors and bring with them considerable experience.

As deputy Vice Chancellor of Plymouth University, Professor Playford has oversight of the faculties of health and human sciences (including...

A new patient information video produced for Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust illustrates the importance of seeking urgent medical help if you suffer chest pain, or any other symptoms, that could indicate the onset of a heart attack (myocardial infarction).

The video features a patient’s personal account of suffering a heart attack whilst at home alone. He describes the build up of...

A further £890,000 is being put into a series of testbed projects across Devon and Cornwall to improve access to primary care.

The money will enable schemes involving GPs and pharmacists to be extended into the summer, so their full effectiveness can be analysed and decisions taken on whether they are worth investing in for the long term.

Some 40 different schemes are being...

Plymouth University is working alongside the NHS to prepare the next generation of health managers for the challenges they will face.

The University has signed an agreement to work with the NHS South West Leadership Academy to run a Postgraduate Certificate in Organisational Leadership for aspiring health executives.

The first of a suite of courses, it will aim to provide...

GMB members in the NHS in England and Northern Ireland will take part in further industrial action, alongside ten other NHS unions, in the week commencing Monday 24 November 2014 in a dispute over pay. It is likely to include a four-hour stoppage and a programme of action short of a strike.

Unions taking action are GMB, Unison, Unite, UCATT, Society of Radiographers, Royal College of...

Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, is supporting a Private Members’ Bill from Clive Efford MP today, which, if passed, will restore real democratic accountability for the NHS, scrap the new competition framework and make sure NHS patients are always put first.

The Coalition-Government’s damaging Health and Social Care Act, enforced competition and creeping privatisation within...

BUSINESS telecommunications firm IP Office Ltd has won a major contract to help a Plymouth health care centre further improve its customer service to patients.

The contract to provide a new telephone system for Ernesettle Primary Care Centre will allow a network of four surgeries - Ernesettle, Cumberland, Mount Gould and Trelawny - to operate independently from the main Derriford...

The Combined Laboratories at Derriford Hospital are pleased to announce that their Clinical Pathology Accreditation has been retained.

Accreditation assures patients that technologies and procedures match best practice to provide a consistently high quality service. The labs underwent an external assessment in January and the news means that our Combined Labs have now maintained the...