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People with Parkinson’s could see their care transformed thanks to a new service involving wearable technology.

The project, entitled Developing Home-based Parkinson's Care and led by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and the University of Plymouth, will see patients use a wrist-worn device known as a Personal Kinetigraph (PKG®) as part of a new scheme to help them and a specialist team monitor their condition at home.

The annual Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM) asks renal patients from units all over the UK to rate the service they receive across wide ranging aspects of their care.

In the latest report, 13,700 patients were surveyed across 71 adult renal centres from across the UK. The Trust’s renal department placed second in England, and was voted the best transplanting renal unit in the whole country for ‘overall patient experience’.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) will host an 18 month Autism Liaison Service Pilot. The post, which is being funded through Devon County Council’s Improved Better Care Fund and commissioned by Devon CCG, will sit within the current Learning Disability team at UHP.

Work has begun on a new facility that will host some of the most advanced brain research technology in the South West Peninsula.

A new initiative, set to make an impact on patients through research, has been launched today by University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust in collaboration with the University of Plymouth.

A nurse-led improvement project in Derriford Hospital’s Emergency Department is changing the way patients with cardiac conditions experience urgent care.

Healthcare professionals in Plymouth are among the first nationally to receive specialist training in a scientific-learning approach to improving patient care and experience.

The Peninsula Allergy service has been awarded the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Improving Quality in Allergy Services (IQAS) accreditation status. The accreditation was awarded following an on-site assessment and an extensive review of documentation by allergy specialists representing the RCP accreditation unit.

University Hospitals Plymouth has been shortlisted for a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Value award. The HSJ Value awards recognise excellent use of resources and demonstrable improvement in outcomes.

A final-year midwifery student on placement with University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust has become the first person to deliver a baby at Liskeard Community Hospital.