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Pete Smith has been able to return home from QA Hospital four weeks earlier than expected thanks to a new service.

QA Hospital patient returns home four weeks early due to new service

(l-r) Malgorzata Dominska and Chelsea Sturgess, owners of Athoria.

Picture: Sarah Standing

New female-only gym opens in North End to help women build strength

Glade Clarke

‘Glade’s Law’ petition seeks legal right to urgent mental health care

Nurosym can help you get a better night's sleep

What are Nurosym users saying about the wearable device?

Chris, Maddison and Natalie Cox

Family thankful for support as daughter's condition mystifies doctors

Lovehoney’s couples advent calendar is aimed at adults looking for a more playful countdown to Christmas.

Reviewers opened Lovehoney's £119 advent calendar

Damira Dental Studios has moved to 40 Isambard Brunel Road in Southsea.

Portsmouth NHS dental practice doubles in size after relocating

Forget chocolate, this advent calendar is made for couples to enjoy together

Lovehoney £119 couples’ advent calendar is worth £487

South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS)

'Unprecedented operational pressures' during heatwave saw 21 deaths

‘Banter and Brew’ at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre, St Mary's, Portsmouth welcomed members of the Armed Forces community ahead of Remembrance Day.

Hospital welcomes veterans to ‘Banter and Brew’ event

Baxters Cullen Skink fish soup has been recalled due to a manufacturing fault where the can could burst. Pictured: Generic canned soup at a shop in New York City, USA, in 2025.

Warning issued over soup cans which could burst with foul stench

Over 50 per cent of responders to a Healthwatch Portsmouth survey believe that accessing GP appointments have become harder since October 2025.

Survey reveals patients find access to GPs harder after changes

Hampshire brain injury survivor who turned his recovery into support for others in the running for national award

Pictured: Ed Marshal

Man who rebuilt his life after brain injury named award finalist

Non-invasive device Nurosym can reduce GI symptoms and inflammation

What is Nurosym? Bryan Johnson’s vagus nerve device explained

Movember

Movember mental health drive backed by county council

Adult social care

“Fragile” care sector prompts plans for extra beds in Portsmouth
Portsmouth faces rising demand for residential and nursing care as its population ages
Toby Paine

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust’s 2027 People’s Choice Award.

Patients invited to nominate healthcare heroes

QA Hospital

QA Hospital joins trial to reduce breast cancer radiotherapy treatment

Glade Clarke

Campaign and charity launched in memory of woman who look her own life

What is Nurosym? The wellness device featured in Netflix’s Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever

What is Nurosym and how does the wearable wellness device work?

Nurosym's earpiece has helped people relieve various symptoms

This unusual earpiece claims to help with anxiety, fatigue and pain

Mrs Ryan was admitted to hospital with pneumonia

Family outraged after 87-year-old discharged from QA with pneumonia

Emma Artemiou before and after her weight loss journey. A Portsmouth grandmother who struggled with weight gain during the menopause has lost nearly 40 per cent of her body weight after joining a support group, without using jabs.

Grandma who struggled play with kids loses five stone without jabs

Cremer Mall in Fareham

Cremer Mall in Fareham lights up pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Damage caused by the fire in the west wing of Southampton General Hospital on February 1, 2026. Picture: University Hospital Southampton

60 beds still closed after devastating fire at hospital

Southampton General Hospital

Hopes of easing parking nightmare at hospital thanks to a new provider

Proposed Welborne Northern Primary School. Image: Hampshire County Council

School and GP surgery pushed back to 2029 amid slower house sales
A new school was originally expected to open at 2028
Natalia Forero

Survivors (L-R) Richard Warwick, Adrian Goodyear, Steve Nicholls and Gary Webster. Image: OPCC
Survivors (L-R) Richard Warwick, Adrian Goodyear, Steve Nicholls and Gary Webster. Image: OPCC

No investigation despite infected blood victims giving statements

Hampshire Orthopaedic Centre. Image: Hampshire Hospitals

Specialist says patients are never ‘too young’ for knee replacement

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust’s (PHU) Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team.

Portsmouth stroke rehabilitation team praised in external review

The water quality problem in Lee-on-the-Solent has been resolved, after people were were urged to boil it before consumption.

Water quality issue resolved with no bacteria detected

The Golden Lion, Southwick High Street, PO17 6EB.

'Improvements made' after 'shock' food hygiene rating for popular pub

Portsmouth Water has issued a warning to residents in Lee-on-the-Solent that bacteria has been discovered in the supply.

Water quality warning issued after bacteria found in the supply

Learning CPR can literally be a life-saving skill.

Shoppers in Fareham to be taught CPR by leisure centre staff

Siony Perez, radiographer, at Portsmouth Community Diagnostic Centre.

See inside the new Portsmouth Community Diagnostic Centre

dental

£3.7m earmarked for new NHS dental services in Hampshire

Community Breast Health Workshop at the Portsmouth Jami Mosque

Portsmouth mosque hosts breast health workshop

Members of the cardiology team at QA Hospital.

Innovative technology earns QA Hospital recognition at national awards

Mitch and Cliff Waudby are part of the catering team for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Gosport.

Brothers cooking for NHS patients in Gosport reach competition finals

Mev Ghazanfar, a HR business partner who was diagnosed with endometrial cancer in 2018. She is among the thousands of people living with cancer who are being "ghosted" by loved ones as they navigate their diagnosis and treatment.

Hampshire woman 'ghosted' by friends following cancer diagnosis

HMS Dragon homecoming on October 9, 2026. Pictured is: Leading Hand Charlie Gill from Littlehampton, West Sussex, with his cousin Finlay Ratan (2). Charlie donated part of his liver to Finlay when he was just four-months-old after needing a transplant.

Exclusive 'Hero' HMS Dragon sailor saves boy given days to live - reunited again

Pharmacist Francisco Millan with Hugo, four, and Elle, three Picture: Habibur Rahman

City pre-school first in south east to have flu spray from pharmacist

Hampshire County Council HQ. Image: LDR

“Many positive findings” adult social care services get new CQC rating

The Blue Bell Inn has been closed since a fire broke out in a neighbouring property on July 11.

Pub landlord takes on 310km challenge in memory of Pompey legend

nurse doctor hospital stethoscope generic

Nurse had sexual relationship with patient and lied about it

Since being set up over a decade ago, Portsmouth City Council’s Wellbeing Service has supported over 10,000 attempts to quit smoking to date.

Free expert support available to Portsmouth smokers this Stoptober

Fleas infested a St Clare Wightlink ferry while travelling between Portsmouth over the weekend.

'Fleas' infest Wightlink ferry forcing services to be cancelled

Dr Hayley Cousins, clinical director, and Justin Cousins, operations manager, at Coastal Private GP & Aesthetics.

Picture: Sarah Standing

New GP surgery opens in Fareham

Wisteria Lodge on London Road, Horndean was rated outstanding following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

Nursing home rated outstanding for its proactive and personalised care

Resident doctors have begun five days of industrial action today (July 25).

Portsmouth hospital trust faces £13.9m deficit amid bed shortage

Members of the families of people who died at Gosport War Memorial Hospital (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

Gosport hospital death inquests could cost Hampshire nearly £4m

Newborn babies will be tested for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – a condition which affects singer Jesy Nelson’s twins. Pictured: The entertainer sitting during the National Television Awards 2026 show at The O2 Arena on September 8, 2026.

Portsmouth lab to test newborns for condition affecting singers' twins

Courtney and Harlow

Woman recounts traumatic birth experience at QA hospital

A lack of NHS dentists in Portsmouth is causing a crisis, city councillors have said Photo: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Figures show NHS dentist visits for children is a national low

The number of reported STIs in Portsmouth has increased, new data shows.

Sexually transmitted diseases in Portsmouth on the rise

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