When patients are discharged from hospital they can expect to take home with them all sorts of advice and the equipment they need. But one very special patient at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre so captured the hearts of everyone there that he was waved off laden with gifts.
The team at Peninsula NHS Treatment Centre usually specialise in elective, planned surgery such as hip...
Standards of cleanliness at Derriford Hospital have been rated as 98%, according to a report published today by the NHS Commissioning Board.
Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE) is the national system for assessing the quality of the patient environment and aims to help organisations understand how well they are meeting the needs of their patients and identify where...
Plymouth University’s adult nursing students have been congratulated by Health Education England (HEE) for their pioneering methods of wider patient engagement.
Ruth Auton, Senior Policy Nurse from HEE, visited the University earlier this month to learn more about initiatives including Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) – a national first that was set up in collaboration with...
GPs should consider a more overt discussion with patients when referring them for further investigation of symptoms which may indicate cancer, according to a paper published in the British Journal of General Practice.
In an NIHR-funded study, researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Durham and Exeter conducted interviews with patients being referred for possible lung...
The first patient to choose distraction methods instead of sedation during surgery at Derriford Hospital is recovering well.
Janet Blank, 65 from Mountwise in Plymouth had a total knee replacement under spinal anaesthesia last Friday, while using a new ipad on loan from the South West Regional Anaesthesia Group as a distraction during the operation, rather than being sedated.
