A medical unit designed to assess patients quickly and avoid unnecessary admission into hospital has been reopened following a major £1 million refit.
The RD&E’s Medical Triage Unit (MTU) provides rapid diagnosis and care to stable emergency patients referred from their local GP or the RD&E’s Emergency Department. The unit allows patients to be treated by expert clinical teams in a bed or seated in a treatment area if mobile, without being admitted to hospital. The unit’s overall purpose is to minimise unnecessary hospital admissions, which can sometimes delay a patient’s...
Is the War on Obesity making us sick? An alternative perspective on fat and health
When : Tuesday, 4th December, 2-3.30pm (refreshments from 1.30) Where : Washington Singer Building, Rm 219, University of Exeter Cost : Free, but please register via link below.
Could it be that everything we think we know about fat and health is wrong? Where did these ideas come from? And what does this mean for individuals, for healthcare professionals, and for policy makers? In this seminar, we will look at the evidence-base for the weight-health relationship and consider whether current...
Patients across Devon will be able to make routine GP appointments in evenings and at weekends from this month.
The aim of the GP improved access service is to make it easier for people to get an appointment at a time that suits them.
This new scheme is an extension of the usual GP practice services that patients across Devon will be used to – it is not a walk-in service. Patients will still need to contact their GP practices directly to make an appointment if they want to see a GP between the longer opening hours during weekday evenings, weekends and bank holidays....
Following an immensely successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018 ("a witty, tender play” **** Financial Times), a previous sell-out, award-winning run at The Vault Festival 2016 and a highly successful run at The Bunker London 2016, Rive Productions are delighted to bring Isley Lynn’s SKIN A CAT to Exeter Phoenix on 5th & 6th October.
Every teenager thinks they’re the only one not having sex. But for Alana (Lydia Larson), it may well be true. Every time she gets close to doing it, something just seems to get in the way. Soon she can’t help wondering if it’s this tricky for...
An Exeter-based physiotherapist wants us all to stand on one leg to improve our movement awareness.
Cara Simpson of Flamingo Physio believes that everyone can prevent pain without having to exercise but by becoming more aware of the way they move during everyday life.
“After many years of working in the NHS as a musculoskeletal (MSK) specialist physiotherapist, it struck me that the majority of people I was seeing didn’t actually require treatment,” Cara explained.
She has written a book to help explain the idea. Flamingo Physio uses a mixture of easy-to-follow...
Your essential guide to What’s On in and around Exeter this weekend (27-29 July).
THEATRE
Derek Acorah Friday, Exeter Corn Exchange Following his captivating appearance on Celebrity Big Brother, which saw a phenomenal run to the final, 2018 sees Britain’s best loved, and most entertaining, medium takes to the stage across the UK and Europe with his all new ‘Love, Life, Laughter Tour’. www.exetercornexchange.co.uk
Habeas Corpus Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Habeas Corpus is a rip-roaring comedy set in Brighton in the 1960’s where the lust and...
The new South West Creative Technology Network is expanding the use of digital technologies throughout the region’s creative, health and manufacturing sectors.
The network is one of 14 nationwide hubs to have won a share of a £67 million Research England-funded investment announced this week.
Exeter-based Kaleider is joined by Bristol’s Watershed as Co-Executive Producers of the 3-year project led by UWE, in collaboration with Bath Spa University, Falmouth University and University of Plymouth.
The southwest hub will partner with a community of innovators, drawn...
Mattresses are a huge environmental problem which might be about to be solved thanks to a brainwave by Squirrel Medical, a company based at the internationally renowned Plymouth Science Park.
Currently, the UK sees some 169,000 mattresses dumped into landfill.
Hygiene concerns mean many of the parts mean cannot be recycled. It’s a global issue with industry experts saying America saw more than 20 million mattresses thrown away last year alone.
“The scale of what we’re dealing with is unbelievable,” explains Gary Baker, Research and Development Director at Squirrel...
Maternity services at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust have been rated highly by mums in the 2017 National Maternity Survey. The Trust performed well across the survey, and has been rated as one of the top performing nationally.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) survey asked women about their experience of antenatal care, care during labour and birth, and postnatal care. It was sent to more than 18,000 women who gave birth in February 2017 in services run by 130 NHS trusts across the country.
Responses were received from 155 mothers who were cared for by RD...
Leading local advice charity Citizens Advice Exeter, has today released its advice trend statistics for the period 1 April – 31st December 2017.
The charity has helped 7448 people directly with advice and information since 1 April. The overall advice trends, compared to the same period in the previous year, were as follows:
Employment
Overall, the charity saw a 4.8% increase in employment enquiries. The main changes being:
• 26.3% increase about pay and entitlements • 14.8% increase about employment tribunals and appeals • 37.0% reduction about terms...
