Could Cornish ice-cream be better for convalescing patients than the traditional grapes and chocolates? That’s the question that Truro’s Duchy Hospital is setting out to answer with a month-long trial on its wards. The hospital has teamed up with the award-winning Callestick Farm near Truro, to see whether a bowl of ice-cream could help patients [...]
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Job satisfaction almost 100% in Cornish healthcare workers
A new survey of more than 200 Cornish health workers has revealed startling levels of job satisfaction, with more 98% of staff claiming they enjoy their work. The figure has risen since the survey was last carried out in 2009 and puts job satisfaction among Cornish workers ahead of their counterparts in the rest of [...]
Beating Bowel Cancer in Bodmin
Staff at Bodmin’s NHS Treatment Centre have joined the fight to raise funds for, and awareness of, bowel cancer. As well as their day-to-day role in diagnosing and treating the disease, the staff took time out to raise money for the charity Beating Bowel Cancer. They were joined by South East Cornwall MP, Sherryl Murray. [...]
“One Stop Shop” for hernia sufferers in Cornwall
A new type of keyhole surgery being carried out in at the Bodmin NHS Treatment Centre is heralding an end to the problems faced by hernia sufferers in the county. An innovative operation carried out at the start of this month has marked the final piece of the hernia treatment jigsaw for the Centre. The [...]
Cornish firm behind Channel Islands water clean-up programme
The final phase of a multi-million pound programme to help improve water quality around the Channel Islands, led by a Cornish firm, is taking a major step forward this week. The scheme to build a number of new sewage treatment and drinking water plants on the island of Sark is being carried out by Cornwall-based [...]