The Royal United Hospitals (RUH) Bath NHS Foundation Trust is improving patient comfort, reducing waste and saving millions of single-use compression socks from landfill after updating guidance on the use of anti-embolic, or compression, stockings. Compression socks, have long been used in healthcare settings to help prevent blood clots (venous thromboembolism) in patients following surgery…
Families searching for an unforgettable day out this summer can step into an extraordinary world at The Roman Baths, where a new partnership with award-winning AQUILA Magazine has inspired a playful, puzzle-packed adventure full of storytelling and hands-on fun, offering 2,000 years of history in one legendary day out. Running throughout the school holidays from…
Independent Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES) Councillor for Peasedown St John, Cllr Karen Walker, will be holding a Street Surgery in the village on Wednesday 15th July. Each month over the next year Cllr Walker will be visiting every street to meet residents, hear any concerns and to find out about what issues matter…
The Royal United Hospitals (RUH) Bath NHS Foundation Trust has supported promising earlystage research aimed at improving how endometriosis is diagnosed. Endometriosis affects around 1 in 10 women and people with a uterus in the UK, yet diagnosis takes eight – nine years on average. Currently, confirmation often requires a laparoscopy (keyhole surgery), as MRI…
Community groups across the West will soon be able to access a share of £25,000 to bring local nature and green space projects to life through the Mayor’s Community Nature Fund. Alongside the new fund, a new crowdfunding initiative developed by the West of England Mayoral Combined Authority in partnership with community fundraising platform Spacehive…
Interactive sessions to help young children learn how to repair, reuse and recycle electronics have been enjoyed by more than 430 primary school children across B&NES. The workshops run over the past few months by Bath & North East Somerset Council in partnership with Sustainable Hive aim to encourage good recycling habits at an early age and…
Local employers, business leaders and organisations are being invited to take part in Peasedown St John’s first ever Job Fair later this year. To be held at the village’s local primary school, hundreds of job seekers and potential employees are expected to attend the event. One of the organisers is village councillor, Cllr Karen Walker…
Bath & North East Somerset Council is stepping up action to prepare its services for the growing impacts of climate change and help prevent impacts on communities. Recent periods of extreme heat and storms have reinforced the urgency to act faster and strengthen resilience with extreme weather no longer rare. A Climate Resilient Council…
Hundreds more young people in care, and care leavers, are set to benefit from up to ten years of free bus travel across the West of England: one of the UK’s most generous schemes, and saving them up to £10,000 each. The West of England Mayoral Combined Authority has confirmed that its successful Care Leaver Bus Pass scheme will be extended to include young people…
Residents, businesses and performers are being asked for their views on how streets and public spaces should be used and managed in Bath and North East Somerset. Bath & North East Somerset Council is running three separate but linked consultations to understand how activities happening in one place at the same time, including trading events and street…
