94 people in Devon are facing Christmas on the waiting list for an organ transplant. They join more than 6,000 people across the UK, including over 180 children, awaiting a life-saving gift. Families…
Clinicians from Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust have won a prize for presenting their pioneering work at a national conference. The Trust’s Upper Gastrointestinal Surgical Team who work…
As part of Mouth Cancer Action Month, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust’s Special Care Dental Service will be travelling around in their mobile dental van raising awareness of Mouth Cancer a…
Public Health England, in partnership with the NHS, today launches Every Mind Matters, a new way of empowering people to manage and improve their mental health. Survey shows 84% people in the South W…
Two physiotherapists are the first to have been awarded a new grant to support health professionals in Torbay and South Devon to make a difference to patient care through research. Kathryn Bamforth…
Health, care and voluntary sector staff from the Teignmouth and Dawlish area have been learning through an interactive experience about the challenges faced by people living with dementia. Staff fr…
Young people are successfully boosting the appeal of an expanded NHS volunteers service they themselves support. The young people’s branch of Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Volunteers…
Volunteers who have green fingers or merely a love of working outdoors are invited to help clear up a community garden. The ‘Big Green Tidy Up’, is at the community garden on Cricket Field Road in …
New cancer detection equipment worth a staggering £1.3m has been handed over to Torbay Hospital by a charity. The Torbay Hospital League of Friends (LoF) presented 34 brand new, high definition end…
It can be hard to feel like you can make a difference to the world, especially if you’re not old enough to vote, but a group of children from a school in Torquay showed that it is possible to make a p…
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust is inviting the public to its annual members’ meeting. The meeting, on Wednesday 25 September between (2pm and 4pm) at the TREC Centre, Torbay Hospital, …
A community nursing team covering Paignton and Brixham has scooped an Outstanding Care Award. Paignton and Brixham Community Nurses, employed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, were no…
The League of Friends, of the former Paignton Community Hospital, has donated hundreds of pounds worth of new equipment to the physiotherapy team based at Paignton Health and Wellbeing Centre. The …
As thousands of parents across the South West prepare their children to start primary school in the next few weeks, Public Health England (PHE) South West is warning that 5,000 five-year olds in the r…