Health & Beauty

At our Woman of the Year ball Penni Ball who runs groups in Pinhoe and Countess Wear, alongside fellow colleagues was congratulated on helping slimmers to lose weight and change their lives by singer and TV presenter Peter Andre.

The team, who run Slimming World groups in Devon, was delighted to get a chance to cuddle up to Peter when he presented the annual Slimming World Awards. The Mysterious Girl singer co-hosted the event with the organisation’s founder and chair Margaret Miles-Bramwell OBE.

Anna Joyce said Peter’s presence at the awards was extra special because...

The home beat off strong opposition to be crowned Care Team of the Year at the first Caring UK Awards.

The awards, organised by Caring UK, with support from headline sponsor Clydesdale/Yorkshire Bank, recognise excellence, innovation and achievement in all corners of the industry.

To come out on top, the home went through a rigorous assessment process, which involved a site visit by a member of the awards' team who toured the facility, chatted to residents and staff and examined all areas of the business from CQC reports to dignity within care.

Detailed reports were...

Long-established Southern Healthcare owns four homes across Devon specialising in complex nursing, dementia and residential care. And it’s a double celebration for the independent care provider, which has been rated ‘Overall Outstanding’ by Care Quality Commission (CQC), for not one, but two of their homes. Sefton Hall based in Dawlish and The Old Rectory located in Exeter, were recognised in four domains: effective, responsive, caring and well-led. The coveted accomplishment is shared by only 1% of care homes in the country, thus earning Southern Healthcare the right to be recognised as...

Devon residents are being called on to help prevent people in their communities from taking their own lives by supporting a project to train up hundreds of specialist suicide ‘first aiders’.

Suicide devastates lives, families and communities – in Devon two people take their own lives every week. Local Authorities, GPs, the NHS and the voluntary sector work closely together to prevent suicide. But often it is communities who are better placed to recognise the early signs of distress and intervene before a person’s problems reach crises point. Now Devon County Council’s Public Health...