Health & Beauty

People across the South West are being urged to back a hard-hitting initiative to save Stop Smoking Services from closure, as new figures released today (Wednesday) reveal dangerous funding cuts. A new joint report by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and Cancer Research UK found that 57 per cent of local authorities in the South West were forced to reduce their smoking cessation budgets in the last year, putting these vital services – and thousands of lives - at risk. With repeated Government cuts to councils’ public health budgets, over the last three years, findings from the report...

On Thursday 10th November, Debenhams in Princesshay will be hosting its second annual Beauty event from 4pm to 9pm in store. The free event will be a beauty and fragrance extravaganza with make overs, beauty samples, exclusive gifts, discounts, bubbles and nibbles.

Concessions involved in the Beauty event include, Bare Minerals, Clinique, Chanel, Clarins, Dior, Lancôme, Estee Lauder, Benefit and Urban Decay. As well as beauty favourites, the Debenhams personal shoppers will be on hand to help finish the perfect party look with style advice and a showcase of their party product...

Leading audiology service and NHS partner, Chime Health is raising awareness of the Veteran’s Hearing fund ahead of armistice day. This scheme allows serving and ex-service men and women to gain free hearing help and equipment from Chime, thanks to Government funding.

Following the Royal British Legion’s ‘Lost Voices’ report in 2011, which highlighted the hearing issues faced by veterans, the organisation lobbied the UK Government to do more to help those with hearing loss. Thanks to this campaign, in 2015, the Government responded by creating a new Veterans Hearing Fund, giving...

Services at Axminster Community Hospital are now back to normal after it was temporarily closed last week due to flooding.

The flooding, from a burst water main pipe, caused some infrastructure damage and affected the hospital’s IT services and electricity supply. As a result, services at the hospital had to be temporarily suspended.

Staff from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare Trust, together with partner organisations, worked jointly throughout last week and into this week to fix the problems.

We would like to apologise...