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Health secretary Therese Coffey announcing measures to address pressures facing the NHS in the House of Commons in London on September 22, 2022. Picture: ANDY BAILEY/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images.

Healthwatch calls for more detail from health secretary’s NHS plan

More than 6,000 breast screening appointments were missed in Portsmouth last year

More than 6,000 women in Portsmouth miss breast screenings

A dentist at work.

Some Portsmouth school-aged children 'have never seen a dentist'

South Central Ambulance Service says it is coping well with demand.

Hampshire 111 service under 'significant pressure'

A fresh plea has been made for a new dental surgery to be opened in Cosham to help ease the city's incredible frustrating problems with finding appointments for NHS dentists.: Rui Vieira/PA Wire

Fresh plea to open new surgery to end 'incredibly frustrating' dental woes

A Covid ward

More than 300 people contracted Covid while in Hampshire hospitals

The approach to the Portsbridge Roundabout from the south. Picture: Allan Hutchings (122278-576)

Plans for Cosham redevelopment to go on display

A shortage of blood tubes has put doctors and patients in a "terrible, unenviable position", with GPs facing "difficult choices" about who gets blood tests, the British Medical Association has warned. Issue date: Saturday August 28, 2021.

Concerns for patient safety in Hampshire as blood testing postponed

A new dental practice has opened in Buckland. Picture: PA Wire

Dentist opens with more than 21,000 NHS appointments available

A geriatrician holds the hand of an elderly woman with arthritis.

Portsmouth unpaid carers reveal 'emotional and physical strain' that the pandemi...

6/4/2017 (EP) agenda Healthwatch Portsmouth is a group which represents patients on plans and changes to health care in the city. They are there to be a 'critical friend' and make sure things are being done by health providers for the benefit of the patient. Pictured is: Roger Batterbury, vice chairman for Healthwatch Portsmouth. Picture: Sarah Standing (170467-9160)

Portsmouth patients still want to see their GP in person, new survey says