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A breast care charity based at the breast care centre in Derriford hospital is launching a 3 year campaign to boost the money it raises for local NHS breast services and to increase awareness of the importance of breast care.

Cancer patients and those recovering from cancer treatment are now able to take part in a horticultural healing programme, being offered by the Mustard Tree Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at Derriford Hospital.

After the breast screening programme had to be suspended due to COVID-19, a backlog of 9000 screenings has now been cleared.

A team of transplant patients from the South West were successful in bringing home a number of medals from the Westfield Health British Transplant Games, held in Leeds at the end of July 2022.

Following the announcement that Monday 19 September will be a bank holiday to mark Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral, we are currently working on the arrangements for our services and staff.

It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

A virtual reality dome, allowing people to experience the new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre that will be built at University Hospitals Plymouth, has been installed at Derriford. The Centre is part of the government’s plans to build 40 new hospitals by 2030.

All of the trainee pharmacist who were at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) from July 2021 to August 2022 have passed their registration exam and are now registered qualified pharmacists.

Medical students whose studies have been interrupted by the ongoing conflict in Ukraine were able to visit University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust as part of a summer school run by the University of Plymouth.

The car park outside of the Derriford hospital Maternity Department will be closed as of Monday 22 August 2022.