Southampton Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC), which offers an alternative to A&E for non-life threatening conditions, is welcoming people with minor illnesses, and not COVID-19, back to the centre for treatment. It comes after the centre, based in Royal South Hants Hospital, closed during the second national lockdown. During the early stages of the pandemic, the […]
There has been lots of national and local media coverage about the troubles of NHS Track and Trace. People have reported difficulties booking a test and experienced other frustrations with the system. We would love to hear your experiences as we are collating community perspectives: Is the NHS Test and Trace system working for you? […]
Making sure that the public and communities can have their say about health services and are able to influence service improvement is an important part of the NHS. Over the next few months, we will be telling you about some examples of positive engagement activity in Southampton. This month, we are reporting on the work […]
Solent NHS Trust provides health services across Southampton, Portsmouth and parts of Hampshire and Isle of Wight. In Southampton, this includes health services for children and families, adult rehabilitation wards and community services, dementia services, diabetes nursing as well as emergency department support for adults over 65 being discharged from hospital. In their ambition for […]
The health minister has apologised to hundreds of women, and their children and families, failed by healthcare professionals after expressing concerns about medical treatments. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53348569
Kelly Smith was diagnosed with bowel cancer more than three years ago. Thousands of cancer patients had their treatment halted or delayed as coronavirus spread in the UK, and she was one of them. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-53310007/they-paused-my-chemo-because-of-covid
More than one in four people who test positive cannot be reached by the test and trace system in England, data shows. In the first two weeks of operation to 10 June, the service was given the details of 14,000 people to follow up. But fewer than 10,200 could be reached. Some failed to provide […]
A cheap and widely available drug can help save the lives of patients seriously ill with coronavirus. The low-dose steroid treatment dexamethasone is a major breakthrough in the fight against the deadly virus, UK experts say. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53061281
Thousands of contact tracers are making their first phone calls to track down people who will be told to self-isolate under new test and trace schemes being launched in England and Scotland. Read more on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52829357
A SOUTHAMPTON hospital will be completely restrict access to the site from today in order to protect staff and patients during the coronavirus outbreak. From today, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust will completely close to visitors and anyone who is not staff or a patient – including limiting one parent to accompany a child […]
