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Nestled on the Mount Gould Hospital site you’ll find Cotehele, a 15 bed inpatient unit for older people (mainly over the age of 65) who have functional mental health issues and are experiencing the worst phase of their illness. Examples of functional mental health...

No Smoking Day is an annual event celebrated across the world which aims to help smokers to quit. In England, around 60% of smokers want to quit and currently around half of these try to quit using willpower alone. But you’re four times more likely to quit for...

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a new strain of coronavirus first identified in Wuhan City, China. With cases having now been identified within the UK, the UK Chief Medical Officers have raised the risk to the public from low to moderate but the risk to individuals...

There are more than 100,000 strokes in the UK each year – that’s around one stroke every five minutes. Stroke is the fourth single leading cause of death in the UK and largest cause of disability, with over 1.2 million stroke survivors in the UK. At Livewell...

Livewell Southwest's job and careers fair will be held on Saturday 21 March, at The Crowne Plaza between 10am – 3pm. The event gives those thinking of entering a health or care profession, as well as existing professionals who want develop their careers, the chance...

Children from a Kingsbridge primary school were welcomed by staff and patients at South Hams Hospital for the first of six days of Lessons on the Ward. The Year 5 children from Stokenham Primary School are joining Livewell Southwest for an intergenerational project...

Livewell Southwest is celebrating its nursing colleagues as a proud participant in the first  International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. The World Health Organization is marking the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth with the global designation, in...

Six Livewell Southwest social workers celebrated a career milestone after successfully completing their Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE). At an event organised by Kerry Dodd, Livewell Southwest Principal Social Worker, certificates were presented to...

Livewell Southwest is proud to publish its Impact Report 2018-2019, enabling us to share with a wide audience the work we are most proud of and the benefits we bring to the communities we serve. We’re a social enterprise, run as a community interest company, which...

On Monday 27 January Philippa Geddes, Regional Engagement Lead at Social Work England visited Plymouth to meet Social Workers from Livewell, Plymouth City Council and colleagues from Devon Clinical Commissioning Group. Social Work England is a specialist...