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Pharmacy First Survey in Portsmouth Healthwatch services across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are inviting residents to share their experiences of the NHS Pharmacy First service. If you live in Portsmouth, please fill in our survey here: Healthwatch Portsmouth Pharmacy First Survey 2026 Whether you've used the service or chosen not to, we want to understand your experience and views about the NHS Pharmacy First service. Your feedback will help identify what's working well a

University of Essex and Healthwatch Essex are inviting people to share their experience using or receiving a Trauma Card or a Young Person's Trauma Keyring: Using a Trauma Resource to Support Trauma-Informed Care: Perspectives from Survivors and Healthcare Practitioners What is a Trauma Card or Young Person's Trauma Keyring? Trauma cards or Trauma keyrings include information or have QR codes of information, explaining trauma and guidance on how to provide sensitive care. Pat

We are sharing our work plan with the public to help you understand what our work priorities are from April 2026 to March 2027. Our workplan is focuing on making an impact through influencing health and care, supporting our work activities, and projects and evidence, and ways to measure our impacts. We will keep listening to the local communities, especailly underserved communities, and help shaping and scrutinising health and care in Portsmouth. Read our workplan here:

Since last December, Portsmouth Community Diagnostic Centre has been offering out-of-hours services, 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. If you don't know what is a Community Diagnostic Centre, Healthwatch Portsmouth is here to help and explain it to you. What is Community Diagnostic Centre Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) have been built to provide tests checks and scans faster and closer to home. They allow a patient to get an MRI, blood test, ultrasound all in a single visit

From 10 September, Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust Phlebotomy Services will be moving to an online appointment booking system for routine blood tests. Which phlebotomy sites will be affected This change will apply to all five phlebotomy sites: Queen Alexandra Hospital (QA) St Mary's Hospital Petersfield Community Hospital Gosport War Memorial Hospital Fareham Community Hospital If you can't book appointments online For people who don't have digital devices, internet

The 2026 summer bank holiday falls on Monday, 31 August 2026 in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. If you need to get your medicine from a Portsmouth pharmacy, please check their opening time before making a move. To make it easy for you, we have collected Portsmouth and Hampshire's (Southampton, Fareham, Gosport, North Hampshire, West Hampshire, South Hampshire) pharmacy opening times: Here is a map showing all the pharmacies across the Southeast of England that will be o

Some patients have told us that they are not able to access digital appointment communications for hospital appointments. For people who don't have a smartphone, people with visual or other communication support needs, they need to receive information that is more accessible, and they haven’t been able to get it. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHUT) needs to respond to them as a reasonable adjustment under the Equality Act. Following patients' requests, we have su

Read our Healthwatch report below, which highlights sixteen Healthwatch recommended action points to meet the NHS wheelchair pathway quality Standard. We will be discussing soon our findings and recommendations with the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board and report to our next HWP Advisory Board meeting in public on 17th Sept, 5-7pm at Buckland Community Centre. From time-to-time, Healthwatch Portsmouth and Healthwatch Hampshire receive unsolicited local fee

The Drayton Surgery Patient Participation Group (PPG) warmly invites all patients and local residents to a special, informative evening. Bowel cancer can affect anyone. Attending this upcoming awareness event could help save your life or the life of someone you love. When & Where: Tuesday 28th July 2026 | 6:00pm (for a 6:30pm start) – 8:00pm Drayton Methodist Church (Main Hall, Havant Rd) What to Expect: A short talk and information from NHS staff from the QA Hospital Bowel C

Steering Group workshops: •Spring/summer/autumn terms •Updates and conversations about our work and how we approach it •Regular newsletters – to subscribe, email: hdrc@portsmouthcc.gov.uk Next workshop: Thursday 9th July 2026, 9.15am to 12pm Location: St Luke’s Church, Portsmouth, PO5 4LH Join us if you can: HDRC Steering Group - Thursday 9 July 2026 Tickets, Thursday 9 July • 9:15 AM - 12 PM | Eventbrite We're told that there's plenty of space at the venue so booking close

Read our Annual Report, which summarises our activities and the impact we made from April 2025 to March 2026.

NHS Hants and Isle of Wight want your help to shape urgent care and GP Out of Hours services

Manager report published, please read it here:

Finding an NHS dentist in Portsmouth can be challenging. Due to high demand and staff shortage, you may find some NHS dentists in Portsmouth are not accepting new NHS patients or have long waiting lists currently. To make things easier, we have created an NHS dentist availability guide and a map showing NHS dental practices across Portsmouth. The map also includes nearby bus routes to help you plan your journey. A dentist working on his patient NHS dentist availability in Por

We often get inquiries on how to travel to the hospital, or whether their travel costs can be reimbersed. We have raised this issue to Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust (PHUT). PHUT listened to patients' feedback and agreed to make reimbursement guidance more explicit and accessible. Now, PHUT's Communications Team have updated the information on their website with clear, simple guidance, including where to go (e.g. Cashiers Office) and what patients need to know. Who'

NHS England has publsihed the Changes to the GP Contract in 2026/27 in March 2026. According to this report, their focus this year is GP capacity, supporting the shift from treatment to prevention, and enabling practices to prioritise clinically urgent needs. Six key changes for patients summarised by Healthwatch England 1. You should not be told to ‘call back tomorrow’ 2. Clinically urgent requests should get a same-day response 3. Online request systems should not cap reque

Great news for Portsmouth residents - a new NHS dentist, One Smile Dental, is opening in late May. It's located near the Portsmouth & Southsea station. One Smile Dental, a new NHS Dental Practice, is opening in late May - online registration is now open Image source: One Smile Dental 🦷 One Smile Dental 📍 Unit A, Chaucer House, Isambard Brunel Rd, Portsmouth PO1 2DR 📞 02393 234105 If you live in Portsmouth and are looking for an NHS dentist, register now to secure your plac

If you are looking for a NHS dentist in Portsmouth accepting new patients, we have some exciting news for you. Damira Southsea Dental Practice is opening up in Southsea soon and inviting people to join their NHS waiting list. Use this link here to register online: Join the NHS Waiting List at Damira Dental Studio. Dentists providing dental care to a patient 🦷Damira Southsea Dental Practice 📍Location: Ground Floor – Unit B Chaucer House, Isambard Brunel Road, Portsmouth, PO1

We are doing a research on Trans and Non-Binary people's experience with GP services in Portsmouth. Please complete our 4 minute survey using this link: Shaping Inclusive GP Services for Trans and Non-Binary People in Portsmouth What is the purpose of the study? The study explores how GP practices in Portsmouth support the inclusion and access of trans and non-binary people. The findings will help identify good practice and areas for improvement. Participant Information This

Residents in Portsmouth told us that wheelchair services provided in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire were not supporting their needs. So, we have created a wheelchair user survey to gather feedback from service users, whether they use manual or electric wheelchairs. By completing this survey, you will play an important role in shaping meaningful improvements to the NHS Hampshire and Isle of Wight wheelchair service. What is this survey about This survey looks at the quali