Health & Beauty

Now we’re entering the colder months, Christmas is just around the corner. While Christmas brings with it a whole host of wonderful things and feelings, your skin doesn’t fare so well. With parties, more make-up, late nights, more alcohol, stress, and that cold winter bite, your skin can suffer. And at the time you want it to look its best. No one wants a scaly nose to go with their New Year’s...

Plymouth City Council is working to ensure that sexual and reproductive health services meet the needs of the local population. An online survey has been launched to get people’s opinions, and will be open for three weeks, so local people are urged to have their say.

Councillor Lynda Bowyer, Cabinet Member for Health and Adult Social Care for Plymouth City Council, said: “We are...

Monday 12th September saw the launch of a new initiative, #goldentime, which gives Matrons and Heads of Nursing an hour of protected clinical time, every weekday, to work clinically on the adult inpatient wards at Derriford Hospital.

Head of Nursing Sam Rafferty explains: “The initiative has been launched in response to the nursing strategy “Leading Change, Adding Value” which was...

Are you a smoker and could you give up smoking for a whole month?

Next month is Stoptober and people across Plymouth are being urged to take the challenge to quit smoking throughout October.

In Plymouth, smoking rates have fallen by almost 4% in the past four years, down to a rate where around 1 in 5 people currently smoke. Although still higher than England (16.9%) and Devon...