Country star Dolly Parton is urging people to have a covid vaccination with an adaptation of her hit Jolene, but Dolly isn’t the only person to find artistic inspiration in the vaccine.
Nurse Chris Gibson, who works at the vaccination centre at Sherborne House in Newton Abbot, has written a poem to reassure patients.
“We see the people behind the statistics. Everybody has a...
Since March the team at Practice Plus Group Hospital Plymouth (formerly Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre) have constantly changed the way the hospital operates to support the local NHS trust and its patients through the pandemic while latterly reintroducing and maintaining elective (planned) treatment.
While there has been much change one thing has remained constant, and that is the...
A nurse who has dedicated her career to caring for patients in Devon and Cornwall, has joined popular hospital Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre as Ward Manager.
Marie Aitkenhead gained her Diploma in Adults in Acute Care Areas Adult Nursing at the University of Plymouth in 2007. She gained other qualifications at the University, culminating in a BSc in Health Studies in 2015.
A nurse who has dedicated her entire nursing career to Plymouth and the South West, has been promoted to the role of Head of Nursing and Clinical Services at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre.
Margaret Mahoney qualified as a registered nurse in 1998, at Derriford Hospital (now Plymouth University Hospitals NHS Trust - UHP). Within six months she was promoted to senior staff nurse....
Nursing staff took the voices of their colleagues and the public to the heart of the Westminster government yesterday, calling for urgent action to fix the nursing workforce crisis in England.
Vicky Brotherton, a senior ophthalmic nurse at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, was among four nursing staff who went to Downing Street to hand in petitions totalling over 220,000 signatures...
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is appealing for relatives of a nurse who died on active duty in the First World War and will soon be commemorated by the organisation.
Nurse Olive Louise Bennett was 29 years old when she died on October 30, 1916. She is buried at the Plymouth (Ford Park) Cemetery and was part of the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
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.
An Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (ANNP) from Plymouth who was invited to attend the annual commemoration of the life and work of Florence Nightingale at Westminster Abbey last week (Wednesday 7 May 2014) has reflected on her memorable experience.
The annual service is held to celebrate nursing and midwifery staff, both registered and unregistered, working in these services....
