Dr Nangi Lo scoops top national cancer vaccine award
Congratulations to Dr Nangi Lo, our Consultant Medical Oncologist, who won the Rising Star in Cancer Vaccine Research award at the Great UK Cancer Vaccine Summit Awards.
Dr Lo was nominated for her work in bringing personalised cancer vaccine research to Torbay, the only small hospital in the country to offer this research.
She said: “Torbay Hospital is the only small centre in the country to offer personalised cancer vaccine trials and we were selected to be the hub for this research for patients across the whole South West peninsula. I am delighted that the work of the oncology research team in ensuring equity of access to clinical research and novel treatments for all has been recognised nationally.”
Celebrating our apprentices: South Devon College Apprentice of the Year Awards 2025
A huge congratulations to Colin Huskisson, IT apprentice, who won South Devon College’s Computing Apprentice of the Year award, and to Daniel Hagan, physiotherapy assistant, who was highly commended in the Health Apprentice of the Year award.
As the largest employer in Torbay and South Devon, we are proud to have supported more than 500 people through their apprenticeship and into successful working roles in recent years. They’re a great way to either get a foot on the ladder or provide a different route into training for a new career. Did you know that as well as healthcare, allied health professions such as occupational therapist and podiatry, we also offer apprenticeships in engineering, customer service, IT, human resources, business administration and cleaning?
We’re proud of our partnership with South Devon College, Plymouth and Exeter Universities and the Open University which are all helping us to grow our future workforce and creating a pipeline for students to develop careers with our organisation and the wider NHS.
And even though school’s out for summer, it’s not too late to be thinking about new adventures from September by signing up to Springpod, our virtual work experience platform The next programme begins on 28 July and gives students up to 10 hours of free access to webinars, quizzes and videos with people working in our services, talking about what it’s like to work here and what qualifications or experience you might need for their role. During the past two years more than 5, 609 people in Torbay and South Devon have logged on to complete work experience, and 95% of people who completed work experience with us last year said there was a likelihood of considering a career in our industry.
If you want to know more about work experience opportunities with us, please visit our Work experience page.