To celebrate International Women’s Day 2024 we are sharing the stories of seven nurses from Litchdon Medical Practice in North Devon who between them have been working for the NHS for over 250 years.
We asked them about their career and what their hopes are for the future of the NHS.
Glenys McCarthy: “I joined the NHS in March 1981 to start my nurse training, so have been in...
A Plymouth based company tells how it joined the nationwide effort to help doctors and nurses at the height of the fight against the spread of Covid 19.
ADS Window Films, which has its offices in Stonehouse, is one of a number of window film companies which completely altered its production line to produce plastic visors for usage by medical staff across the region.
Teams treating Covid-19 patients will be able to step into a secret flower garden at University Hospitals Plymouth after flowers were donated that were destined for the now cancelled Chelsea Flower Show.
Volunteers, coordinated by Intensive Care Specialist Sister Sister Kate Tantam, transformed a courtyard near to the Intensive Care Unit.
Key figures have gathered at Plymouth University to discuss how nurses and midwives can benefit from their professions’ new revalidation process, which went live on 1 April.
Dozens of students and health professionals joined: Professor Bridie Kent, Head of the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery; Dr Julian Archer, Director of the Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical...
Key figures have gathered at Plymouth University to discuss how nurses and midwives can benefit from their professions’ new revalidation process, which went live on 1 April.
Dozens of students and health professionals joined: Professor Bridie Kent, Head of the University’s School of Nursing and Midwifery; Dr Julian Archer, Director of the Collaboration for the Advancement of Medical...
Nurses from the Family Nurse Partnership Programme at Plymouth Community Healthcare, who provide support and advice to young mothers, have received training and an information pack on the care of milk teeth from dental students at Plymouth University.
The project has been arranged and managed by the Peninsula Dental Social Enterprise.
All nurses and allied health professionals are to be provided with a pocket mirror to aid them with the identification of pressure ulcers on patients’ heels, thanks to a hospital Ward Manager, the Trust’s Innovation Group and the Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust’s Charitable Funds Committee.
Having identified that the use of pocket mirrors can help in the detection of compromised tissue...
Nursing and midwifery staff at Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust are bringing back the hospital badge, with the chosen designed unveiled at Tuesday’s #WeCare Nursing and Midwifery Conference.
Our senior nursing and midwifery team worked in collaboration with Plymouth College of Art, asking the students to come up with designs for two badges. The badges will be awarded to all registered and...
Derriford Hospital welcomed a group of more than 30 student nurses from the ISF Quimper-Corouaille Nursing School, Brittany.
The second and third year nursing students who are on a European Work Exchange programme in Devon were keen to visit an acute Trust in the area so were invited to Derriford Hospital on Thursday 3 April 2014.
