Health & Beauty

Healthcare professionals will lead workshops on diabetes care at the Living with Diabetes Day in Exeter on October 22 from 9.30am – 4.30pm.

The free ‘Living with Diabetes Day’ organised by Diabetes UK is aimed at helping people who have been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in the last few years to access the essential information they need to live well with the condition.

Healthcare professionals will provide information on local healthcare and the services available to people with Type 2 diabetes in the area. Experts will give workshops on the practical elements of living...

Healthwatch Devon want to hear from people living with long-term conditions to find out what they really think about the support they get from local health services in Devon.

A long-term condition could include things like asthma, diabetes, arthritis, chronic kidney disease or heart disease.

Local health managers want to make sure that people living with long-term conditions get all the support they need to manage their own care and live the best lives they can.

To do this they need to understand how people feel about the care that they currently receive. We are...

The cost to council taxpayers of tackling obesity is set to rise by tens of millions of pounds in just one year, according to new figures released by local government leaders.

Spending on the growing obesity epidemic is expected this year to reach over £127 million, a 21 per cent increase on the previous year's figures when councils in England spent £105 million.

Local government leaders are now warning that we need immediate action to tackle the problem and effectively support the country's three and a half million overweight or obese children.

Councils have seen...

East Devon District Council’s Leader has welcomed the offer of a woodland at Cranbrook for use by students at the new education campus where building work is about to begin as “an excellent example of promoting health and wellbeing”.

Councillor Paul Diviani gave a short address to a members’ briefing at Knowle on Wednesday, called so councillors could hear about the latest proposals from the NHS Clinical Commissioning Group that covers Eastern Devon.*

As a County Council ward member for Honiton St Paul’s, Councillor Diviani also has an interest in Devon County Council’s...