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- Who cares? We need more migrant workers in Cornwall’s care sector, say councillors 29 July 2026
- As Cornwall Council votes to allow children in care to use puberty-blocking drugs, it is again disappearing down the rabbit hole of using its Code of Conduct disciplinary process to answer the question “what is a woman?” 23 July 2026
- Devonwall: 140 health staff have gone already 15 July 2026
- Phew! What a scorcher! Heat health alert extended again (continued page 94) 13 July 2026
- Jailed surgeon who froze his own legs struck off the medical register 31 May 2026
- St Austell’s hydrotherapy pool will not reopen, says Cornwall Council, in a major reversal of the promise made only three months ago 21 May 2026
- That’s the way the money goes: County Hall commissions more anti-racism training 28 April 2026
- Planners approve conversion of former Wadebridge council offices to residential care home 27 April 2026
- Cornwall Council ends its experiment with making people live in steel boxes 16 April 2026
- Plan for more dentists in Wadebridge 16 April 2026
- Disgusted of Wadebridge writes: say NO to Maccy D 15 April 2026
- More former council offices set to become care home 14 April 2026
- Sits Vac: fancy a well-paid job at Cornwall Council? 7 April 2026
- Heating oil crisis: Cornwall reveals its definition of the deserving poor 1 April 2026
- Back to 1834? Heating oil grants put Cornwall’s Fifth Nationalists on a sticky devolution wicket as they struggle to identify “the deserving poor” in need of parish relief 21 March 2026
- The doctor will see you now: so far this year (and it’s still only March) 1,302 patients have spent more than 12 hours waiting in a Royal Cornwall Hospital corridor 19 March 2026
- No meningitis cases reported in Cornwall, say public health chiefs 18 March 2026
- Polruan’s doctors’ surgery under threat of closure 10 March 2026
- Cornwall’s health bosses asked: “what do you know about the people you are trusting with NHS patient data?” 8 March 2026
- The word on the street: after 15 years of counting rough sleepers, Cornwall is back where it started 2 March 2026
- Cornwall swimming championships abandoned because of “health and safety” problems with pool 12 February 2026
- Follow the money: how the long reach of Peter Mandelson’s corruption found its way to the heart of Cornwall’s health service 5 February 2026
- Devon’s hospitals run out of cash 13 January 2026
- Who’s next? RCHT seeks fifth boss in eight years 7 January 2026
- Doctors’ strikes have cost RCHT more than £1 million 7 January 2026
- Flu continues to put pressure on RCHT 31 December 2025
- Did you have flu for Christmas? 28 December 2025
- Police warn “don’t go in the water” after Christmas Day swim tragedy 26 December 2025
- After its “war on motorists” Cornwall Council now goes after cyclists and pedestrians 23 December 2025
- Caption competition 13 December 2025
- “Tidal wave of flu” sweeping through hospitals, warns Streeting 11 December 2025
- Serious RCHT data breach reveals personal health and time-off-sick details of more than 8,000 staff 10 December 2025
- Health chiefs warn of “unprecedented” flu wave 4 December 2025
- Langarth synthetic sports pitch gets the go-ahead 3 December 2025
- What’s all the fuss about? All weather sports pitches have become increasingly popular in rain-soaked Britain over the past 40 years – so why are so many people concerned about another one in Truro? 2 December 2025
- Truro’s new plastic sports pitch: “thank you for your question…but just do as we say, and not as we do” 30 November 2025
- Truro Health Park to become a “one-stop-shop” for doctors, dentists, nurses and chemists 26 November 2025
- Cornwall’s children still in need as council forced to abandon “illegal” housing solution 16 November 2025
- Cornwall keen to join “workers and shirkers” debate 13 November 2025
- That’s the way the money goes: RCHT job-slashing reveals a very peculiar practice 12 November 2025
- Council and NHS chiefs quizzed over Cornwall health cuts 6 November 2025
- Council pockets another capital receipt as care home goes under the hammer 2 November 2025
- 14 months later: still no sign of Boardmasters’ public safety report 26 October 2025
- Property developer with long track record in Cornish politics to lead local NHS 12 October 2025
- Death and taxes: the future of Cornwall’s residential care market 6 October 2025
- Devonwall: “boundary change is not a substantial development or variation in the provision of the health service,” NHS tells County Hall 2 October 2025
- What next for Falmouth hospital? 1 October 2025
- Ranked: how good is your local health service? 9 September 2025
- South West Water sewage dump forces cancellation of national surf championships 8 September 2025
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Cornwall Council to be investigated by its own Fairness Commission 7 September 2025
- Cornwall health boss to chair new sub-regional NHS commissioning board 2 September 2025
- A poor show: we need a strategy which put children first, says County Hall’s public health boss 2 September 2025
- Cornwall’s hospital bosses to debate in public the reasons for their failings 31 August 2025
- Launceston’s Minor Injury Unit on the road to recovery, says MP 31 August 2025
- Hire private nurses from Devon to reopen Launceston hospital, says North Cornwall MP 22 August 2025
- County Hall about to hire a new strategic director 20 August 2025
- Plenty of local NHS bosses but not enough nurses: the closure of Launceston hospital reveals what happens at the sharp end 3 August 2025
- NHS Devonwall is coming soon, regardless of County Hall protests 24 July 2025
- Polkyth hydrotherapy pool, closed five years ago by Covid, could reopen 24 July 2025
- Launceston’s minor injury unit closes again 21 July 2025
- Boardmasters: there ain’t no stopping us now, despite licence review 17 July 2025
- Polkyth leisure centre’s hydrotherapy pool – could it really reopen? 15 July 2025
- Healthwatch Cornwall is facing the axe – who will miss it? 7 July 2025
- “Missed opportunities” to save life of child who died of sepsis after hospital discharge 4 July 2025
- Fowey hospital? Nothing to do with us, says council 3 July 2025
- Paid scrutiny committee posts: Cornwall’s Reform group fails again 3 July 2025
- Cornwall’s Labour MPs put their priorities on the line – to the dismay of disabled people in need of welfare benefits 1 July 2025
- Fowey hospital closure: think again, campaigners urge councillors 29 June 2025
- Devonwall: full details of how Cornwall’s NHS is to be merged with Devon 25 June 2025
- All politics is local – and few issues cost votes more than closing local hospitals 16 June 2025
- Battle joined over ambulance service bid to save cash by ending “first responder” deal with fire and rescue crews 9 June 2025
- That year went quickly: what do you think of it so far? 8 June 2025
- More than 35,000 children in poverty in Cornwall, as MPs come under renewed pressure to do something about it 2 June 2025
- Huge rise in prostate cancer referrals at Derriford 29 May 2025
- Hurry, hurry, hurry! You have until only 15th June to apply for Cornwall Council’s new £166,000 per year “strategic director” job 22 May 2025
- Devonwall: say goodbye to Cornwall-only National Health Service commissioning 19 May 2025
- All six of Cornwall’s MPs again vote to back assisted dying 18 May 2025
- No debate, no scrutiny: end of an era as County Hall bosses axe Tremorvah 18 May 2025
- Still crazy after all these years: inside the St Austell pub that cost taxpayers £1 million 13 May 2025
- Cornwall’s social care staffing crisis is about to get 7.5% worse, as strategy pins hopes on “Mum’s and Dad’s Army” of volunteers to replace overseas workers 12 May 2025
- Decision postponed on Penzance “Putin-esque” extra care flats project 29 April 2025
- National Health Service: Devonwall “strategic commissioning” soon 29 April 2025
- Sits Vac: County Hall starts its quest for a £166,000-a-year “Community Wellbeing” boss 23 April 2025
- The curious case of the senior County Hall jobs’ shake-up just eight days before polling day 21 April 2025
- Devonwall: it’s not just councils being asked to merge, as government tries to cut health spending 2 April 2025
- Rosedown eggs in trouble over hygiene rules 1 April 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: Hundreds of Cornwall Council workers complain of bullying 10 March 2025
- Newquay care home “inadequate” says Care Quality Commission 20 February 2025
- Time to stop throwing good money after bad, says MP, as 48% say former pub should be demolished 16 February 2025
- Man found dead in County Hall “Bunkabin” 13 February 2025
- Lights out: County Hall’s aspiration to make Cornwall a “brilliant” place to grow up is in tatters, as Tory budget priorities leave vulnerable children in the dark 10 February 2025
- Bird flu in Bodmin 10 February 2025
- Boardmasters’ crush: six months later, the public safety investigation is “still continuing” 7 February 2025
- New councillors must complete training in “woke” issues or be in breach of the rules, says County Hall 3 February 2025
- Care home told to make “rapid and widespread improvements” following inspection prompted by woman’s death 31 January 2025
- Derriford hospital joins the critical list 8 January 2025
- Once more into the crisis: RCHT returns to “black alert” critical incident status 5 January 2025
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall’s new women and children’s hospital to get the go ahead 2 January 2025
- Inconvenience at Truro’s new super-conveniences 27 December 2024
- What happens next with assisted dying? Cornwall can only watch and wait 13 December 2024
- Take up thy bed and walk: how to close a hospital 9 December 2024
- Who will pay for a Cornwall Death Service? 2 December 2024
- Assisted dying Bill clears vital hurdle: how Cornwall’s MPs voted 29 November 2024
- Cornwall’s MPs prepare to vote on the Assisted Dying Bill 29 November 2024
- Residential care: knocking stuff down is easy, putting it up again is much more difficult 28 November 2024
- Dragging it out: the smoke-free generation is now a step closer 27 November 2024
- Jack Cordery, a genuine County Hall hero who helped rescue children’s services, has died 26 November 2024
- Can’t we fix it? Trefula care home to close as Corserv fails to find a builder who can carry out repairs 24 November 2024
- End of the road for Newquay anti-poverty charity 19 November 2024
- In a league of their own? Cornwall’s health chiefs have reason to fear Streeting’s latest wheeze 13 November 2024
- Boys will be boys and girls will be girls – at least for now – as the debate over Cornwall’s transgender policies remains lost in the long grass 13 November 2024
- How the budget’s redistribution of cash in the care system has created winners and losers 3 November 2024
- Budget 2024: doubts remain over new maternity unit at Royal Cornwall hospital 30 October 2024
- Fat Cornwall: what we need is another 10-year plan, say health chiefs 22 October 2024
- Back to the future: why consultants are thrilled by today’s “fresh look” at the NHS 21 October 2024
- Former mayor returns to Truro after 500-mile wheelchair journey 30 September 2024
- Winter fuel: how Cornwall Council chamber became Animal Farm 25 September 2024
- Politicians raise their own blood pressure over “review” of RCHT’s proposed new maternity unit 24 September 2024
- Cornwall’s Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to unite in campaign against Labour’s winter fuel axe 23 September 2024
- RCHT’s new maternity unit moved to the critical list – £290 million project might never happen 21 September 2024
- Cornwall’s public health experts to report on abolition of universal winter fuel allowance 18 September 2024
- Winter fuel allowance: Cornwall’s Lib Dems eye opportunity to generate some heat 17 September 2024
- The doctor will see you…..soon, we hope – government set to promise a 10-year plan to save Cornwall’s NHS 12 September 2024
- The long and troubling saga of fire safety concerns at Bodmin PFI hospital 10 September 2024
- Those were the days: Cornwall’s Labour MPs under pressure to remember what they used to say about winter fuel payments 9 September 2024
- RCHT jobs freeze 6 September 2024
- Questions over the future of promised new Women and Children’s unit at Royal Cornwall hospital 4 September 2024
- Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: will “Cornwall Health & Social Care” replace the NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Partnership? 29 August 2024
- St Austell singled out for e-bike axe 29 August 2024
- Closure of Trefula care home is an “absolute disgrace” says former council leader 27 August 2024
- Pop-up “housing pods” again the focus of anti-social behaviour complaints 21 August 2024
- Trefula House care home to be closed, forcing residents to move 21 August 2024
- St Austell’s Carlyon House set to become another health hub 7 August 2024
- No new psychiatric patients at Bodmin as investigation finds “severe” fire safety defects at PFI hospital 5 August 2024
- EXCLUSIVE: More expensive booze and a return to smuggling? What County Hall’s devolution blueprint would mean for health and social care in Cornwall 30 July 2024
- Cornwall’s NHS continues to boost private health profits 3 July 2024
- General Election 2024: the annual report on Cornwall’s health will not be discussed until after polling day, but you can read all about it right here, right now 2 July 2024
- Council sent personal details of child in care to the wrong parent 2 July 2024
- Cornwall’s health service disrupted as computers crash 12 June 2024
- Councillors to debate Cornwall’s approach to transgender issues in schools 15 May 2024
- The devil is in the detail: while the ambition is “brilliant” the reality is red warning lights flashing all over the place 8 May 2024
- Home care provider under investigation 22 April 2024
- X & Y: County Hall braces itself for the gender agenda 17 April 2024
- What a drag: Cornwall’s MPs vote to ban smoking 17 April 2024
- That’s the way the money goes: Corserv lands £25 million in County Hall social care contracts 3 April 2024
- Lostwithiel “hub” aims to point the way for elderly residential care 25 March 2024
- Camborne’s Dolcoath council offices are to become a private residential care home 21 March 2024
- If you’re going to Newquay, don’t fall over on Wednesdays or Thursdays 18 March 2024
- Derriford hospital declares another critical incident 8 February 2024
- Government’s failure to consider beach safety during Covid contributed to deaths, says coroner 1 February 2024
- That’s the way the money goes: why some Tories think their “laser-like” war on waste needs recalibrating 28 January 2024
- It pays to advertise: how Cornwall’s taxpayers are funding the “Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati” 26 January 2024
- Cornwall set to lose four care homes offering specialist adult care 24 January 2024
- Poverty: whatever happened to the ambition that Cornwall should be “a brilliant place to be a child?” 24 January 2024
- Cornwall records its highest ever level of drug deaths 24 January 2024
- Condition critical: don’t go to RCHT unless your condition is “life or limb-threatening” 22 January 2024
- RCHT bosses say “no” to full pay rise for zero-hours NHS workers 21 December 2023
- Polwithen House, Penzance, finally gets planning permission for “multi-generational” redevelopment 13 December 2023
- RCHT unions walk away from monthly meetings with managers, claiming “bad faith” 11 December 2023
- Boardmasters: a suitable case for inquiry? 27 November 2023
- Place your bets: Cornwall’s housebuilding chief invites punters to finance new specialist housing programme 12 November 2023
- “Risk of closure” determined which of Cornwall’s leisure centres got government swimming pool fund 8 November 2023
- Cornwall tops national league table for malnourished hospital patients 8 November 2023
- Cornwall’s hospital whistleblowers are worried about their jobs 6 November 2023
- Cornwall to get £5m for health study 3 November 2023
- “Systemic safety issues” caused death at Derriford hospital when woman was blown over by helicopter downdraft 2 November 2023
- It’s only money: why Cornwall’s council tax is rising by the max 1 November 2023
- New regional secretary takes charge at Unison 22 October 2023
- Care homes sell-off abandoned 28 September 2023
- Gravity wins: the growing cost of ignoring Cornwall’s obesity crisis 20 September 2023
- North Cornwall GP surgery ruled “unsafe” by Care Quality Commission 20 September 2023
- Cornwall’s Port Health Authority boarded refugee barge in Falmouth but did not check for legionella 19 September 2023
- 100 not out: the people in Cornwall who have already lived for decades longer than they might have expected 18 September 2023
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall Council offering £200 million to provide care at home service 5 September 2023
- Covid: better safe than sorry, says Cornwall Council 3 September 2023
- Health boss who left Chester hospital when killer nurse was arrested then got top job in Cornwall 21 August 2023
- In sickness and InHealth – more of Cornwall’s health budget will contribute to private profits 6 August 2023
- Is Cornwall losing the pasty war? Greggs made £80 million profit in only six months 1 August 2023
- West Cornwall urgent treatment centre now open until midnight, just in time for the tourists 31 July 2023
- People-power in St Ives succeeds in saving the Edward Hain hospital, seven years after Cornwall’s health chiefs closed it 26 July 2023
- Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies at Royal Cornwall hospital 21 July 2023
- Like it or lump it: West Cornwall told to accept its amazing shrinking hospital outpatients’ department 18 July 2023
- Tory votes block calls for 24-hour opening of West Cornwall’s urgent treatment centre 5 July 2023
- Around 1,900 children are not in school in Cornwall today – a rise of more than 700 since Covid 5 July 2023
- 75 Up: the battle for West Cornwall’s urgent treatment centre is just part of the story of how successive governments have failed the National Health Service 5 July 2023
- Petition launched calling for 24-hour service at West Cornwall urgent treatment centre 1 July 2023
- Splashing out: two years after being threatened with closure, Wadebridge sports centre celebrates £1 million government grant 30 June 2023
- Look back in anger: the man who led Cornwall’s response to the Covid crisis dismayed by former Health Secretary’s evidence to inquiry, as local death toll is now 1,252 29 June 2023
- West Cornwall hospital’s urgent treatment centre aims to stay open until midnight 28 June 2023
- County Hall to offer time off work for making babies 14 June 2023
- Vote Tory and die: 13 years of Conservative rule now brings a swifter death for many in Cornwall 11 June 2023
- Councillors demand a debate about overnight health emergencies in West Cornwall 8 June 2023
- County Hall hires new boss for children’s services 30 May 2023
- West Cornwall hospital “highly unlikely” to get new outpatients’ department before next general election 29 May 2023
- Sewage dumping closes 11 Cornish shellfisheries because of risk to human health 28 May 2023
- Cornwall’s health chiefs, and Members of Parliament, breathe a sigh of relief as government confirms funding for new Royal Cornwall Hospital unit 25 May 2023
- The long and painful confinement of Cornwall’s “new” hospital has health chiefs on edge 25 May 2023
- Children with special educational needs: Cornwall must do better, say watchdogs 7 May 2023
- Huge barge for 500 asylum seekers is on its way to Falmouth 4 May 2023
- Hayle company fined for breach of radiation rules 20 April 2023
- A bitter pill: Cornwall’s health chiefs among the most aggressive for pursuing patients who fail to pay for prescriptions 11 April 2023
- Cornwall Council plans to sell “outdated” care homes – promising to build new ones 24 March 2023
- Don’t panic, says government, as Mad Cow Disease returns to Cornwall 23 March 2023
- Remembering the day that Cornwall’s health boss said: “we have enough money” 6 March 2023
- Rebuke for council cabinet health chief who said “there is plenty of money in the NHS locally” 3 March 2023
- Mind the gap: health bosses say it pays to be rich if you want to live longer 2 March 2023
- Trengweath hospital, Redruth, to be converted to care homes 1 March 2023
- Penrice birthing centre “needs improvement” says CQC 28 February 2023
- Announcement imminent that Royal Cornwall hospital is to get its new maternity unit 19 February 2023
- Launceston leisure centre is back and under new management 16 February 2023
- What is happening at West Cornwall hospital? ask health campaigners 13 February 2023
- County Hall’s “Code of Conduct” rules are bizarre – why I can’t say sorry 3 February 2023
- Councillor censured for “#Virrout” campaign 2 February 2023
- Lib Dem councillor ordered to say sorry to Tory cabinet member now faces censure 28 January 2023
- Cornwall’s main hospital wants to build its own housing for staff to rent 25 January 2023
- Cornwall’s nurses on picket lines as government refuses to talk about pay 18 January 2023
- Cornwall’s nurses on strike in protest at 20% pay cut since 2010 18 January 2023
- Rise in numbers waiting for care assessments 13 January 2023
- Rainbow data on sex and gender reveals Falmouth and Penryn as Cornwall’s LGBT capital 6 January 2023
- Cornwall urgently needs more care workers, says report 5 January 2023
- Penryn-based Sea Sanctuary mental health charity to close 4 January 2023
- Thousands of homes in Cornwall at risk of damp and mould problems 1 January 2023
- Bring your own medical kits, Cornwall’s NHS chiefs tell visitors 30 December 2022
- Ambulance service joins the rest of Cornwall’s health service in declaring a “critical incident” as demand exceeds supply 29 December 2022
- Cornwall’s nurses to go on strike next month 23 December 2022
- Cornwall’s health bosses declare another “critical incident” as care crisis threatens to tear NHS apart 21 December 2022
- Ambulance crews to strike on Wednesday 18 December 2022
- County Hall steps in to take over failing care companies 18 December 2022
- Nurses at Plymouth’s Derriford hospital on strike in pay dispute 15 December 2022
- Cornwall’s bus pass consultation threatens to limit travel times 14 December 2022
- It’s official – government health watchdog says Cornwall does not have enough nurses to keep patients safe 14 December 2022
- New health scanning facility at Bodmin now open 13 December 2022
- Nurses’ strike: Cornwall set to miss first walk-out, due on Thursday, but there will be picket lines at Plymouth’s Derriford hospital 11 December 2022
- Cornwall’s hospital waiting lists soar 10 December 2022
- DIY health checks for 2,000 patients in North and South East Cornwall 5 December 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall Council only learned about asylum seekers at Newquay hotel from media inquiries 1 December 2022
- Virtually anywhere: NHS experiment with “Hospital At Home” expanded across Cornwall 1 December 2022
- Newquay asylum seekers’ “public health emergency” was caused by mistaken report of monkeypox 30 November 2022
- Cornwall’s public health team confirms major outbreak at Newquay’s “chickenpox hotel” 22 November 2022
- Huge emergency response to unwell asylum seeker at Newquay was caused by chickenpox 21 November 2022
- Cornwall’s chief coroner takes on Health Secretary over “preventable” deaths linked to ambulance delays and failing social care 20 November 2022
- 12 years of Tory rule has brought Cornwall’s NHS to its knees, says Labour 16 November 2022
- South West ambulances failing to meet NHS target response times 14 November 2022
- Beware of norovirus, warn health chiefs 7 November 2022
- Covid-19: little change in Cornwall’s infection rate 5 November 2022
- Cornwall’s social care crisis: ambulance delays at hospitals are getting worse 2 November 2022
- Covid-19: Zoe study suggests incidence of the disease in Cornwall has doubled in a week 1 November 2022
- South West ambulance crews start voting in strike ballot 24 October 2022
- Covid-19: further slight increase in South West infection 21 October 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate more than doubles in a month 14 October 2022
- Elderly hospital patients should go home to their own beds to ease crisis of ambulance delays, says Cornwall Council 14 October 2022
- No medical qualifications required: Cornwall’s health chiefs looking to hire another doctor of spin 9 October 2022
- Royal Cornwall hospital’s replacement maternity unit will not open before “late 2028” 9 October 2022
- New residential care beds about to open in Penzance 9 October 2022
- Covid-19: South West infection rate increases 9 October 2022
- Plans for new 70-bed residential care home at Newquay 3 October 2022
- Covid-19: South West infection rate continues to rise 30 September 2022
- Rising toll of bird ‘flu in Cornwall 26 September 2022
- Covid-19: ONS detects slight increase in infection rates, the first since early July 26 September 2022
- Under new management: Cornwall’s failure to care for autistic adults finally brings shake-up 13 September 2022
- Cornwall’s health workers to be offered pre-fab housing 12 September 2022
- People power saves Edward Hain building for health and well-being at St Ives 8 September 2022
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water 6 September 2022
- The night when Cornwall did not have one single ambulance capable of responding to a life-threatening emergency 5 September 2022
- Replacement Royal Cornwall hospital wing for women and children is back on track – for now 2 September 2022
- Every picture tells a story: how the photo of a makeshift garden shelter in Cornwall led to a health crisis summit in Whitehall (but not much else) 29 August 2022
- Royal Cornwall Hospital records its first “never” event for a year, leaving a guidewire inside a patient 28 August 2022
- Bird flu on the Isles of Scilly: how will Defra respond? 25 August 2022
- Don’t feed the birds, says Cornwall Council, as fears grow over H5N1 avian flu 24 August 2022
- On yer bike! Government gives Cornwall £840,000 to promote a two-wheeled approach to good health 24 August 2022
- Cornwall’s health and social care system to get private ambulances, virtual hospital beds and lots more volunteers – but junior minister has only 14 days to make her plan succeed 23 August 2022
- Bird flu outbreak in West Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 21 August 2022
- Bird flu confirmed in “captive wild birds” near Newlyn 20 August 2022
- Remember the promise of 40 new hospitals? This is the reality 19 August 2022
- Please make sure you don’t hurt yourself outside of our random new opening times, say hospital bosses, as Cornwall’s shortage of nurses starts to bite 10 August 2022
- Royal Cornwall hospital boss warns of “absolute crisis” without social care fix 3 August 2022
- Covid-19: infection rate in South West falls to 4.3% 30 July 2022
- Replacement maternity unit at Royal Cornwall hospital to be delayed at least three years – beyond the next general election 29 July 2022
- West Cornwall hospital’s £9.1 million extension “put on hold” 28 July 2022
- Covid-19: hospital deaths in Cornwall are once again on the increase 28 July 2022
- Cornwall’s health and social care sectors are now “integrated” – so how long before we see improvement? 28 July 2022
- Room at the top? Cornwall’s Integrated Care Partnership suddenly has two “co-chairs” 28 July 2022
- Covid-19: why we no longer tell you what’s happening, by Cornwall’s public health team 26 July 2022
- Monkeypox virus: Cornwall has had no new cases since 16th June 25 July 2022
- Brave New World: the future of adult social care in Cornwall will involve telling elderly people to stay at home and look after themselves 25 July 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s public health team stays silent as virus resumes its deadly march 24 July 2022
- Monkeypox: south west now has 34 cases, as London gets “accelerated vaccination” and WHO declares global emergency 24 July 2022
- Cornwall’s bed-blocking crisis reaches new high 22 July 2022
- Cornwall’s mental health provider “requires improvement” says CQC 22 July 2022
- Three Minor Injury Units will now close two hours early 17 July 2022
- South West sees a 12-fold increase in Monkey Pox in four weeks 13 July 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall Council to conduct interviews to decide who will get £100,000-a-year job currently done by chief executive’s wife 12 July 2022
- Everything you wanted to know about Cornwall’s new “Integrated” Care System, with eight different contributors all saying the same thing about health: get used to staying at home, with a greater role for the private and voluntary sectors 11 July 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate stays at 3.5% 9 July 2022
- Cornwall’s health chiefs seek £100,000 per year “reputation manager” as new Integrated Care System takes charge 8 July 2022
- Covid-19: Hospitals report a doubling of cases as new wave sweeps Cornwall 8 July 2022
- Covid-19: You must again mask-up in hospital, say health chiefs, as one person in 29 now has the disease in Cornwall 2 July 2022
- The curious case of the five-year delay between closing three of Cornwall’s hospitals and then doing anything useful 1 July 2022
- Care workers must have higher wages, says Truro & Falmouth MP 30 June 2022
- Covid-19: watch out, the virus is still about, warns Health Security Agency 29 June 2022
- Cornwall’s population increases 7.1% in 10 years – and gets significantly older 28 June 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: The 30 year secret which describes how health officials considered trying to silence one of their fiercest critics over the Camelford water poisoning disaster 27 June 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate rises 23% in a week 24 June 2022
- Improvements needed to help vulnerable adults 21 June 2022
- Cornwall Care to be taken over by Sanctuary, as County Hall agrees to surrender properties in bid to rescue failing residential market and ease hospital “bed blocking” crisis 21 June 2022
- Cornwall’s care home crisis: after months of dysfunctional secrecy, a plan slowly starts to take shape 19 June 2022
- Covid-19: the virus is once more on the increase in Cornwall, according to ONS 17 June 2022
- Monkeypox arrives in Cornwall 16 June 2022
- Covid-19: Further slight fall in Cornwall’s infection rate 11 June 2022
- 16 years after Tony Blair imposed new contracts for dentists, a third of Cornwall’s children have no dentist at all 11 June 2022
- If you want a £100,000-a-year job at County Hall, you now have an extra three weeks to get your application in 8 June 2022
- Planners refuse permission for conversion of Falmouth nursing home to luxury flats 8 June 2022
- Cornwall’s climate emergency is also a public health emergency, Cornwall’s public health director tells County Hall protest camp 2 June 2022
- Cornwall’s need for food aid sees nine-fold increase in seven years 2 June 2022
- Cornwall’s psychiatric patients risk being sent 142 miles to Bristol because of local bed shortage 2 June 2022
- NHS dentistry in Cornwall plummets by 30,000 patients in six months 1 June 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate falls to below 2% 29 May 2022
- Cornwall’s health and social care system is so badly broken that it presents “a risk of harm” according to CQC 27 May 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate continues to fall 22 May 2022
- County Hall’s answer to the cost-of-living crisis: a cash handout for the poorest pensioners to buy food for three weeks 19 May 2022
- “There was a young lady from Bude, who went to the beach in a mood. After getting undressed, she was feeling less stressed. You can’t beat a dip in the nude” 18 May 2022
- Cornwall’s “challenging” relationship with Home Office over child refugees 18 May 2022
- You wait six months for a meeting to govern your crisis-stricken health and social care system, and then the meeting is cancelled because of the weather… 17 May 2022
- Covid-19: Further fall in Cornwall’s infection rate, according to ONS 13 May 2022
- How levelled-up are you? Expert analysis of government’s own data reveals Cornwall is now worse off 13 May 2022
- Covid-19: 920 deaths in Cornwall so far, as virus is set to overtake influenza as a cause of death 11 May 2022
- Cornwall’s Health & Wellbeing Board prepares to hold its first meeting for six months 10 May 2022
- Will Cornwall Council’s chief executive be interviewing her wife for £100,000 per year job? If not, who will? 10 May 2022
- CQC concerned about pressure on Royal Cornwall hospital emergency department 6 May 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall Council promotes the chief executive’s wife to £80,000 – £120,000/year senior job 5 May 2022
- Cornwall Council wants to spend £27 million on robots. What could possibly go wrong? 4 May 2022
- Auditors call for greater scrutiny of Cornwall’s adult social care sector – but portfolio holder says information is “commercially confidential” 3 May 2022
- Sharp increase in complaints of bullying and harassment of black and minority ethnic RCHT staff 2 May 2022
- Covid-19: Significant fall in Cornwall’s infection rate, according to ONS 29 April 2022
- Covid-19: 882 deaths in Cornwall so far, and the toll keeps rising 26 April 2022
- New Women and Children’s unit at Royal Cornwall hospital on track for 2024 opening 21 April 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall records 33 more deaths in 7 days 20 April 2022
- Signs of life? Cornwall’s Health and Wellbeing Board to resume after six-month absence with consideration of a new suicide strategy 19 April 2022
- Government woes with transgender “conversion therapy” threaten Tory v Tory problems for Cornwall Council 18 April 2022
- Covid-19: wear a mask “where you can” says Cornwall Council 17 April 2022
- Covid-19: latest NHS data show 40 hospital deaths in Cornwall last week 14 April 2022
- Cornwall Council hires new director of Adult Social Care 12 April 2022
- Bodmin in line for major NHS investment over next 10 years 11 April 2022
- Nearly half of all patients in Cornwall’s community hospitals have no medical need to be there – but they have nowhere else to go 9 April 2022
- Covid-19: ONS reports sharp rise in Cornwall’s infectivity 8 April 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall records 58 deaths in 7 days, due to “processing error” 8 April 2022
- Covid-19: government data is now “less reliable” says Cornwall’s public health chief 5 April 2022
- Cornwall’s Health & Wellbeing Board to meet in May, for the first time in six months 4 April 2022
- Covid-19: the end of free lateral flow tests sees Cornwall’s new case numbers plummet 2 April 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate falls 7.5% in four days 1 April 2022
- Covid-19: sharp fall in Cornwall’s infection rate 31 March 2022
- Bed blocking in Cornwall’s hospitals at its worst for two years, as “medically-optimised” patients who have nowhere to go occupy the equivalent of seven wards 30 March 2022
- Thousands of potential refugee sponsors can keep their 25% council tax discount, rules government 29 March 2022
- The Butterfly Effect: will Falmouth’s leisure centre have to face the uncertainty of a “resurrection” project, or will the council’s cabinet try for a “Hollywood ending?” 29 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall about to become England’s most dangerous hotspot, as search continues for local Health & Wellbeing Board 29 March 2022
- Cornwall’s main leisure contractor was at the centre of London chlorine gas accident 28 March 2022
- Covid-19: New infections, hospitalisations and deaths all increase in Cornwall 26 March 2022
- Cornwall’s quest to help Ukraine’s refugees mired in red tape 25 March 2022
- Communities in Cornwall turning to DIY emergency measures as ambulance service warns it might take 24 hours before it can help 25 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s hospitals now filling rapidly 25 March 2022
- Covid-19: Where is our Local Outbreak Engagement Board? asks West Cornwall Healthwatch 24 March 2022
- Covid-19: virus kills 19 people in Cornwall in 7 days, as infection rate now 67% higher than England 24 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now at an all-time high as County Hall defies government to advise self-isolation for people with symptoms 23 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall now the second most-infectious part of England; more than 100 in hospital, 12 deaths in 7 days 22 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate nearly doubled in a week; Cornwall is now the 5th most dangerous place in England 19 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall sees huge rise in hospital admissions, as virus kills 10 patients in a week 18 March 2022
- Covid-19: virus is again out of control in Cornwall 17 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s health chiefs warn they will call for backup if people refuse to wear masks 16 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate soars 10.7% in 24 hours; 8 deaths in 7 days 16 March 2022
- Covid-19: Devon says 1,000 NHS staff are off sick, but the situation in Cornwall remains secret 15 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now 35% higher than England’s average 15 March 2022
- Covid-19: South West has the highest “R” number in England 13 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall goes dark again, as more than 100 admitted to hospital in a week and new infections soar 12 March 2022
- Hospital bosses who refused £500 Covid bonus for frontline workers got up to £10,000 themselves 11 March 2022
- Covid-19: Royal Cornwall hospital again suspends all visiting as infection rate soars 11 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall must look to Devon to find out what is going on 10 March 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate again on the rise, 22% higher than England 9 March 2022
- EXCLUSIVE: Some of Cornwall’s health workers to get a one-off £500 Covid “thank you” bonus while others are left with nothing but the memories of grateful people clapping 8 March 2022
- Covid-19: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as Cornwall’s official case numbers fall but deaths remain high 6 March 2022
- Cornwall’s hospital waiting times now measured in years 4 March 2022
- Petition seeks to force Cornwall Council debate on crisis in health and social care, as the body which is supposed to be in charge disappears from public view 3 March 2022
- Cornwall? No thanks – one third of unaccompanied Afghan child refugees would rather live somewhere else 2 March 2022
- “Economic viability” – two words which council chiefs apply to leisure centres, but not to offshore wind energy or cheap flights 1 March 2022
- Cornwall Council says it took 100 “medically optimised” hospital patients into social care last month, yet the ambulances continue to queue 28 February 2022
- Cornwall’s number of rough sleepers falls by one, over two years 28 February 2022
- More than a month after County Hall’s declaration of a “critical incident” in adult social care, the impact on hospital beds is getter even worse 27 February 2022
- Covid-19: Saltash and Redruth infections increasing, despite drop in testing 27 February 2022
- Covid-19: Blue skies ahead, but absence of evidence is not evidence of absence 23 February 2022
- Cornwall’s children’s services retains its “outstanding” status 22 February 2022
- Covid-19: Brave New World 21 February 2022
- Covid-19: the new Year Zero 20 February 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate continues to fall, but is more than double that of Wales 15 February 2022
- Health, social care and devolution: is Cornwall in for another seven years of stop-go-stop integration? 14 February 2022
- Covid-19: With only 11 days to the next “Freedom Day,” virus deaths in Cornwall are increasing 13 February 2022
- Covid-19: this is the new normal, and without a public health policy it will be permanent, as Cornwall’s infection rate settles into a yo-yo pattern 11 February 2022
- Covid-19: virus kills 10 in Cornwall in a week as Boris Johnson plans yet another “freedom day” 10 February 2022
- Covid-19: Two more deaths in Cornwall but infection rate slows slightly 6 February 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now is double what it was before compulsory face masks and vaccine passports 4 February 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s death toll and new case rates continue to rise 3 February 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate continues to climb 1 February 2022
- Covid-19: Some parts of Cornwall are already back on the “black list” of Britain’s most dangerous 30 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s rate of infection has increased by 16% in a week 28 January 2022
- Covid-19: You should still wear a face mask, says Cornwall Council, on the day the government says you don’t need to – just as infection rates start to increase again 27 January 2022
- Covid-19: Is Cornwall’s infection rate on the increase again? 26 January 2022
- Three residential care homes to close as part of restructure 25 January 2022
- The future of leisure centres: price or value? 25 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s cluster map looking brighter, as hospitality sector looks forward to the next “freedom day” 21 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate continues to fall as Boris Johnson prepares to scrap “Plan B” restrictions 19 January 2022
- Cornwall Council declares “critical incident” in Adult Social Care and plans to get 100 elderly people out of hospital within the next two weeks – but does not know where they will go or who will look after them 19 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s cluster map continues to get brighter 17 January 2022
- Covid-19: a blue patch on the cluster map, signalling the virus is in retreat 14 January 2022
- The first of 76 unaccompanied child refugees have arrived in Cornwall 13 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate falls for third consecutive day 13 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s “heatmap” of new infections is now cooling but hospitals remain under pressure 12 January 2022
- Covid-19: is Cornwall now at “peak Omicron?” 11 January 2022
- Covid-19: Saltash joins the list of “most dangerous” clusters 10 January 2022
- Covid-19: “black list” clusters now spreading across Cornwall putting more pressure on NHS 9 January 2022
- Covid-19: South West hospitals now see a new Covid patient every ten minutes 8 January 2022
- Covid-19 – Cornwall sees 30% increase in hospital patients since Christmas Day, as Army moves in to support NHS in London 7 January 2022
- Covid-19: South West hospitals now need new beds for infected patients every 30 minutes 6 January 2022
- No country for the old and the sick: why the government has an uphill struggle to convince England that its Covid policies are better than those of Scotland or Wales 5 January 2022
- Covid-19: South West hospitalisations have increased by 73% since Christmas 5 January 2022
- Covid-19: No escape, as Cornwall’s average rate of infection enters the danger zone 4 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate rises another 9% in just 24 hours 3 January 2022
- Covid-19: Cornwall now has 18 “red list” clusters 2 January 2022
- Covid-19: Another year over, and new infections in Cornwall are clearly getting much worse 1 January 2022
- Covid-19: pressure mounts on Cornwall’s hospitals 31 December 2021
- Covid-19: South West hospitals see 30% increase in patients since Christmas Day 30 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s heat map turns darker and darker, now with 11 “red list” clusters 30 December 2021
- Covid-19: You need to be on a “war footing” NHS chiefs tell hospitals 29 December 2021
- Covid outbreak means Cornish Pirates cannot play rugby on New Year’s Day 29 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s rate of infection jumped 10% on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, as the Omicron wave starts to arrive 28 December 2021
- Party like it’s 1999, but don’t forget your Covid vaccination passport 28 December 2021
- Covid-19: Newquay suffers the worst Christmas hangover as Cornwall now has five “red list” clusters 27 December 2021
- Living with Covid: Royal Cornwall hospital plans new building to help cope with pressures caused by virus 26 December 2021
- Covid-19: London hospital data hold the key to new restrictions in Cornwall 26 December 2021
- Covid-19: Omicron heads west for Christmas 24 December 2021
- Covid-19: Four “red list” clusters in Cornwall, as all eyes turn to what is happening in London hospitals 23 December 2021
- Covid-19: hospital bosses watch the cluster map and wonder what next week could bring 22 December 2021
- Covid-19: Truro’s New Year fireworks’ party cancelled as Omicron threat spreads everywhere 21 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s hospitals approach Christmas in a weaker position than last year, as politics again trumps science 20 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall waits and watches, as England’s infection rate soars 20 December 2021
- Anti-vax campaigner bailed pending Crown Court sentencing after admitting criminal damage and bomb hoax 18 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate starts to rise, as Omicron spreads from the cities 18 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s calm before the storm? 17 December 2021
- 2021 to end with a whimper, not a bang, as Covid forces cancellation of major fireworks’ display at St Ives 16 December 2021
- Covid-19: Warning of imminent high infection and cancelled tourism bookings – if you want to know what is likely to happen in Cornwall, ask Devon 16 December 2021
- Will Cornwall Council cancel New Year? Covid threat could force reappraisal of St Ives risk assessment 16 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate falls 18% in 7 days, while England’s rises 7% 16 December 2021
- Covid-19: Town and parish council meetings could be suspended, as Whitehall anxiety grows over “imminent tidal wave” of new infections 15 December 2021
- Covid kills Jethro – stand-up comedian dies aged 73 15 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall still improving, but not for long 15 December 2021
- Derek Thomas a lonely rebel as five out of six of Cornwall’s MPs back Covid passports 15 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s health chiefs plan to vaccinate 9,000 per day, as Stithians Showground prepared to reopen and local GPs reconsider their priorities 14 December 2021
- Has County Hall become a centre for drug-dealing? Cornwall Council questioned about its emergency, temporary accommodation scheme 14 December 2021
- Not enough doctors, schools or roads – but planners give the go-ahead for more new homes in Hayle 14 December 2021
- Covid Plan B: the latest rebel scoreboard suggests nearly a quarter of all Tory MPs could vote against Boris Johnson this evening, while Cornwall’s Conservatives stay loyal 14 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate falls 14% in a week, despite Boris Johnson’s “tidal wave” warning 14 December 2021
- Covid-19: Event organisers will be responsible for checking vaccination passports, not us, says Cornwall Council 13 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s average infection rate falls 7% in a week 13 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate has fallen in recent days, contrary to national trend 12 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall Council welcomes “Plan B” 10 December 2021
- Covid-19: Plan B and the demand for vaccination passports puts question marks over Cornwall’s New Year festivals 9 December 2021
- Covid-19: This is how “Plan B” starts and MPs vote on it next week 9 December 2021
- Cornwall to provide homes for 74 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children 8 December 2021
- Covid-19: Plymouth now the most dangerous place in England 8 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall now has nine clusters on the “red list” 7 December 2021
- Newquay Airport promoting cheap “winter break” flights to Newcastle 6 December 2021
- Covid-19: virus tightens its grip across the South West 6 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate appears to be out of control, rising another 25% in a week 5 December 2021
- Cornwall and Isles of Scilly to get new Health & Wellbeing Board – where alternative points of view are not required 4 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall clusters’ update as the map gets ever darker 4 December 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now 15% higher than national average 3 December 2021
- “Don’t talk about enforcing the leisure contract, we haven’t had time to tell you about the nine alternative management companies, you can’t have an Inquiry Panel and we want a new gym for Truro” – County Hall officials set themselves up for a rough ride next week 2 December 2021
- I voted in favour of Covid face masks, says St Austell & Newquay MP Steve Double 2 December 2021
- The end of tax-and-spend: Cornwall’s Conservatives unveil their budget, cutting £55 million in a year and slashing jobs 1 December 2021
- Covid-19: Falmouth and Saltash back on the critical list 1 December 2021
- Nine “expressions of interest” submitted to take over the running of Cornwall’s under-threat leisure centres 30 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now 10% higher than England 30 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate continues to rise 29 November 2021
- Cornwall’s Tories take to social media in bid to sell government’s latest Covid rules 28 November 2021
- Placards primed and ready for Tuesday: councillors will be asked to consider their priorities as cheap flights collide with leisure centres 28 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate increases 22% in seven days 28 November 2021
- Covid-19: South West “R” number now at 0.9-1.1 – but that could be the least of our problems 26 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall infection rate continues to rise 26 November 2021
- The battle to save Christmas: a report from St Ives, where they turned on their lights in October 25 November 2021
- Children at risk of exploitation in Cornwall 25 November 2021
- Covid-19: now Padstow goes dark and joins the sick list 25 November 2021
- Covid-19: Truro joins the critical list 24 November 2021
- EXCLUSIVE: Cornwall’s health chiefs forced to put hospital patients in hotel to stem over-crowding crisis 23 November 2021
- Covid doubles the workload for Cornwall’s GP surgery receptionists, as practices struggle to recruit staff 22 November 2021
- Ear wax removal for Cornwall would cost £1 million, say NHS chiefs 22 November 2021
- New ward due to open at Royal Cornwall hospital, as staff brace for winter 22 November 2021
- Covid-19: winter is coming 22 November 2021
- A brief window in time: 36 hours next week to question Cornwall Council about leisure centre closures 21 November 2021
- Covid-19: infection rate on The Lizard now worse than Holland 21 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s infection rate now rising again, as Europe braces for another Christmas lockdown 19 November 2021
- Cornwall’s leisure centres: County Hall now has options, as GLL destroys its own monopoly 17 November 2021
- Petition launched to force a full council vote on the future of Cornwall’s leisure centres 15 November 2021
- Covid-19: Cornwall’s “daily new case” data continues to fall but pressure on NHS continues 15 November 2021
