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Bay NHS trust forms part of brain tumour centre of excellence

Herald Express

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June 11, 2025

HEALTH professionals specialising in brain tumours, including the NHS in Torbay, have been recognised for excellence.

- By ALISON STEPHENSON Local Democracy Reporter

The Plymouth and the Peninsula Neuro-Oncology Network, which includes University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Trust and Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, is one of 14 new Tessa Jowell centres of excellence.

The former Labour MP and culture secretary Dame Tessa died in 2018, a year after she was diagnosed with brain cancer.

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