ALL primary school children in Exeter are being invited to enter an NHS drawing competition and show off their artistic talent.
Children aged five to 11 in all 29 primary and special needs school in the city now have the chance to express their creativity with a picture of what being healthy means to them.
The arts competition is being organised by the Northern, Eastern and Western Clinical Commissioning Group (NEW Devon CCG) whose core value is the promotion of healthy people leading healthy lives in healthy communities.
Writing in the British Journal of Cancer, the Nottingham researchers say it could help doctors tailor treatment better and boost survival rates.
Local business woman Terri Bainbridge recently launched Thermalogica a ground-breaking health screening service with business partner Lisa Portman, gives her first-hand experience of having cancer and how this inspired her to start-up this new venture….
Terri Bainbridge: So it’s breast cancer awareness month again, but is all this ‘awareness’ actually teaching us anything? Breast cancer hit my radar back in 2005 when Kylie...
Smokers in Exeter who are thinking about quitting but were too late to join the 28-day Stoptober challenge are being urged to visit their local stop smoking clinic for free specialist advice.
The Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust supports people to quit through its weekly stop smoking clinics across the county.
Specialist advisers Denise Veen and Sarah Leggatt, from the Trust’s Health Promotion Devon team, run clinics at two venues in Exeter:
St Sidwell’s Centre, Sidwell Street – Monday (9am to midday), Wednesday (9am to 4pm)
We are looking for public support to build a fossil-free environment in Devon.
Where the air is clean and there is no pollution.
A green clean environment with clean energy that is free, mobile phones that never need to be plugged in ever again, Windows that create free energy for life. Houses built that are totally self sufficient from the national grid.
Vehicles that are a true hybrid that will run on solar and methane gas creating zero emissions into the air we breath.
A world where you can use your own bio-degradable waste and whereby creating free...
Continuity of care so that all patients see the same GP with whom they build up a relationship over time could help reduce delays in the diagnosis of cancer in primary care. In an essay published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, a team of primary care experts write that this, together with longer consultations and better distribution of information to GPs about referral pathways or new services could have a wide reaching impact on the early diagnosis of cancer and survival. Yet, write the authors, recent changes in the structure of the NHS and the continuing pressure on...
Action for Blind People has developed The Living with Sight Loss (LWSL) course for people who are newly diagnosed, or anyone coming to terms, with sight loss. It aims to provide practical knowledge, information and support whilst empowering visually impaired people to gain confidence and independence.
The courses provide an opportunity to explore a range of different subjects from volunteering and peer support to emotional wellbeing and nutrition. They also provide an opportunity to meet professionals from a range of services such as Guide Dogs, RNIB, Social Services and the NHS to...
Thermalogica held its official launch event ‘Take charge of your health’ at Radiance MediSpa.
Guests enjoyed a drinks reception before hearing a talk by Terri Bainbridge and Lisa Portman, who launched the company earlier this year.
The dynamic duo offer radiation-free health screening for private clients to gain early detection of diseases or locate and monitor pain from an injury using a highly sophisticated camera.
Guest speaker Dilys Gannon-Bone aka ‘The Health Detective’ gave a well-received presentation on nutrition and how she took charge of her own health...
Would you be willing to tell us about your experience? We are looking for people to take part in research to understand their experience of having a suspected medicine reaction. We have had a good response to date and should like to contact some more people before we close this study at the end of June.
You can help by taking part in an interview. We are looking for people aged 18 and above to discuss with us their experience of having a suspected medicine reaction. This reaction may have happened either while taking the medicine or after stopping it and should have been recent,...
Thermalogica Health Screening has confirmed that 'Health Detective' Dilys Gannon-Bone will be making a special appearence at their official launch on Wednesday 2 October at Radiance MediSpa, Exeter. Lisa Portman and Terri Bainbridge will be showcasing the ground-breaking technology behind Digital Infrared Thermal Imagining (DITI) as an aid for diagnosis and prognosis of various health issues. There will be a live demonstration of the procedure, which is radiation free and safe for men, women and children.
The event will feature guest speakers and specialists in their individual...
Stoptober – the 28-day stop smoking challenge which last year saw over a thousand people in Devon complete the challenge, is set to return this October, and Devon County Council’s public health team is marking the national campaign with a range of support for those trying to quit.
Smoking remains the nation’s biggest killer with half of long-term smokers dying prematurely from a smoking disease.
New research shows that people who quit smoking for Stoptober, and don’t smoke again, could gain an extra week of life, every 28 days, for the rest of their life. And anyone who...
