Plymouth's Derriford Hospital has been rated below average in each of four categories assessed by local patients, according to a report published by NHS England .
Standards of cleanliness at Derriford Hospital have been rated as 93.47%, according to the report by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC). The score, while signalling the hospital's serious efforts to ensure...
Derriford Hospital is opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 28 September 2013, with our first Open Day in more than a decade.
They would love you to come along between 10am and 2pm.
They are working hard to create an event that offers something for everyone, including:
• Step inside an operating theatre and play a life-size operation game • Meet our military staff • Bring your Teddy Bear to our Teddy Bear Hospital • Visit our Careers Fair • Challenge your children with our quiz • Step inside a delivery room in our maternity unit • Comfortably numb: find out...
Across the globe, cases of allergy are significantly increasing. An estimated 21 million people in the UK now suffer from an allergy, with at least one in three people affected at some time in their lives. In Devon and Cornwall, that equates to around 600,000 people.
A conference hosted by the University of Exeter Medical School will bring together a range of experts in the field to...
Plymouth's Derriford Hospital will be opening its doors to everyone on Saturday 28 September with its first Open Day in more than a decade.
Among a variety of activities, the general public will have the opportunity to visit an operating theatre and a delivery room, find out about organ donation, check their livers and try some hospital food. The hospital will also be explaining how...
Shantelle Clarke, the 15-month-old toddler who fell from a fifth-floor window of her home, has been moved to a specialist care unit in Bristol. She remains in a "critical but stable condition".
The girl suffered serious internal injuries after the estimated 100ft (30 metre) fall from the window of her home just off Savage Road, in the Barne Barton area of Plymouth on Saturday morning (...
An innovative team from Derriford Hospital in Plymouth will be showcasing a mobile app, designed to help clinicians assess patients with possible dementia, in the House of Commons today (Thursday 5 September).
Dr Rupert Noad, Consultant Neuropsychologist from Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Dr Craig Newman, Research Clinical Psychologist from the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools...
A case of legionnaire’s disease has found in Plymouth . It is not currently known how the person who is in Derriford hospital contracted the disease.
Public Health England and Plymouth City Council are currently investigating how the patient caught the lung infection which is contracted through water infected with naturally occurring legionella bacteria.
Following a performance of “Mayday Mayday”, a play written by local actor Tristan Sturrock about his spinal injury and journey to recovery, Consultant Neurosurgeon Tim Germon was invited to give a talk to the audience about spinal injuries at St Anne’s Warehouse in New York.
Talking after the event Tim said: “It was pretty intimidating to stand on the stage, a completely different...
Learning Disability Week is a week of national campaigning and awareness raising run by Mencap. For this year’s Learning Disability Week, the charity is asking people to share stories of their superheroes.
As Mencap explains: “This year, we're celebrating the amazing, brave and selfless people in our lives.
“The world is full of bad attitudes, wrong stereotypes and difficult...
