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We visited the Summerlee Unit on 30 September 2025. Summerlee Unit is an inpatient unit situated on the First Floor of Harry Sotnick House in Portsmouth. Enter and view visits is a Healthwatch programme, enabling trained members of a local Healthwatch team to enter and visit  care services in practice; talk to patients, their families, and carers; learn about services from the perspective of people who experience the service first-hand. This visit helped us understand how th

We have successfully held our Advisory Board meeting in public at Cosham Baptist Church on 8 December 2025. It was lovely to meet some of our board members and the new joiners representing the public. Healthwatch Portsmouth Managers' Report Read the Healthwatch Portsmouth Managers' report to find out what we discussed in the meeting. Below are some of the topics we included in this report: Healthwatch structures and governance Local Authority Strategic and Unitary Authority

With Healthwatch Portsmouth and our partners' efforts, two new HIVE Portsmouth Community Helpdesks just opened in early December. In 2023, we gathered residents' feedback during guided conversations, in order to drive the purpose of reducing health inequalities in the city’s areas most affected. Now, we are delighted to see our findings and plans have been put into place, and already there have been lots of people dropping in for free information, advice and guidance. Below