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Clinical Research Nurse Sheena Melendrez has been recognised as the overall winner of a research poster competition at a University of Plymouth research conference.

As of 24 January, the Multi-Storey Car Park at Derriford hospital has been made patient-only. The Trust is responding to patients who were arriving late for appointments because they were finding it difficult to know where to park.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has received a prestigious Centre of Excellence award from leading national charity Muscular Dystrophy UK.

The Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has supported a study which has found that a pioneering care programme through which people with Parkinson’s are supported in managing and monitoring their condition at home has benefits for patients and care teams.

Life-saving lung health checks with an iconic South West backdrop are set to be offered to thousands of smokers and ex-smokers from Plymouth and surrounding areas.

A specialist nurse at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) has received a national bravery award for providing emergency care to a member of the public in 2022.  

We have been dealing with a potential threat to Derriford Hospital this afternoon and implemented our own emergency safety procedures.

We recently caught up with Lisa Matthews, a former patient of the Rehabilitation Unit at Mount Gould… 

NHS England, the national team for Urological Services and the South West Urology Network visited the new Chestnut Urological Investigation Unit at University Hospitals Plymouth on Friday.  

The teams celebrated the new unit which has capacity for patients to have a scan, biopsy and see a consultant for diagnosis on the same day. There are only two other units in the country with these capabilities.

Patients who would previously have to stay in hospital are now able to go home earlier, thanks to technology being used by Derriford Hospital's Virtual Ward.