We know how important it is for patients and families to be able to see visitors. Please help us keep our patients and staff as safe as possible by checking the guidance below before you visiting.
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We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication. Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Voluntary Services team can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.
After suspending visiting earlier in the year, we are now able to offer limited visiting to some wards at the discretion of the nurse in-charge.”
Read more on visiting times...
We recognise the impact that a long stay in hospital can have on families and the importance of maintaining strong communication. Our ward staff are keeping in touch with patients’ next of kin directly and our Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) can help pass on personal messages from family and friends.
The Queen Alexandra Hospital is located just on the hill slopes of Portsdown Hill overlooking Portsmouth. It is conveniently situated for both the M27 and A3M.
Family members and carers play an important role in supporting patients during an episode of ill health. We are committed to the active involvement of family members, friends and carers during a hospital stay. Family members and carers play an important role in supporting patients during an episode of ill health.
More information on visiting hospital for an appointment.
If you've had experience of using our services and would like to make a comment then please contact the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS). Your views are very important to us and we would like to hear where you think improvements are needed or where things have gone so well that you would like to share your thanks or gratitude with the staff involved. When things have not gone so well then you can be sure that we want to hear from you, so please get in touch with PALS.
Our Strategy – Working Together, Improving Together
Our strategy sets out our vision, values, strategic aims and most importantly, how we will deliver against these ambitions for our patients, communities, and people in the future.
It is not just a document, it is for and about everyone at PHU, building on what we have achieved with a renewed focus on continuous improvement and the need to continue to work together and improve together to achieve our goals.
A full copy of the strategy can be downloaded here.
For more information, please visit our strategy webpage.
There are lots of opportunities for you to get involved with the Trust, from volunteering to attending our public meetings, our Annual General Meeting or our hospital open day which is held every year.
We welcome and value your feedback and use the views you share with us in a number of ways to learn and make improvements as well as sharing best practice. Feedback can be provided in a number of ways.
Last updated: 06 September 2023
We are one of the largest employers in Portsmouth and are proud of our diverse workforce. We are committed to embedding equality, diversity and inclusion in all that we do and aim to be a fully inclusive employer.
Read our new Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 2022 - 2025 Strategy here.
Networks have been set up across the Trust to support this ambition, including our Race Equality Network, Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT+) Staff Network and DisAbility Staff Network.
We want to ensure all staff feel valued and are treated with dignity and respect in an inclusive environment which acknowledges difference and celebrates diversity. We believe that diverse workplaces make organisations better - this is why the Trust is a Personal, Fair and Diverse Champion.
We have been a partner of the NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion programme, supporting trusts to develop their equality performance, since June 2018. We began year two of the programme in June 2019 and are proud that our application was assessed as the highest scoring out of over 40 participating organisations. As a result, we were invited to write a blog 'Empowering us to make equality improvements' that captured and shared our journey.
We are also delighted to partner with Choices College. It is incredibly important to us that we support members of the community and young people with learning difficulties and one way we can do this is by providing supported internships where they can learn new skills and thrive in a working environment. Find out more here.
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