Current visiting times

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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Messages for loved ones and keeping in touch

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.

Read more information about messages for loved ones…

Current visiting times

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...


Messages for loved ones and keeping in touch

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.

Read more information about messages for loved ones…

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.

Services

Last updated: 13 June 2023

We provide a wide range of services for all industry sectors no matter the size of your business.

From the very start of your new employees’ journey, we support their health and wellbeing.

The purpose of the Pre-placement is to identify any health issues which could affect the health and well-being of an employee in the workplace and to identify any measures which can be put in place to maximise this. Healthy employees and have a more fulfilling work life balance.

A Pre-placement is used to assess an employee's fitness to carry out all aspects of a new role, or to determine any reasonable adjustments, that maybe necessary if they have a pre-existing health condition, or any health condition which is likely to come under the terms of the Equality Act 2010.

Vaccination programmes, medicals and health surveillance to protect their longer-term health.

When your employees need a little extra help and support our management referrals process is there to assist, early intervention measures are proven to save businesses time and money.

  • Pre-Placement Questionnaire
  • National performers list clearance
  • Sickness absence management
  • Stress/ anxiety
  • Ill health retirement
  • Pregnancy assessment
  • Health conditions, new or existing
  • DSE assessment
  • Workplace assessment
  • Phased return
  • FIT4WORK programme
  • Management referral
  • Health and Wellbeing days
  • WRAP® (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) training
  • Stress Management Training
  • Mental Health Awareness Training
  • Spirometry (Lung function)
  • Peak Flow
  • Audiometry (Hearing)
  • Skin (Dermatitis)
  • Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVs)
  • Night workers assessment
  • Confined space medical
  • Working at height medical
  • Chester step test
  • Lone workers assessment
  • Safety critical medical
  • Non - Licensed Asbestos medicals
  • Ionising Radiation Medicals
  • Helipad Medical
  • Vehicle Ergonomic Assessment
  • Non LGV
  • Fork Lift Truck
  • Cherry picker
  • Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCV)
  • Large Goods Vehicles (LGV),
  • Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV)
  • Vocational driver / Bus Driver
  • Isocyanate urinalysis
  • Lead Bloods
  • Hepatitis B
  • Hepatitis A
  • Hepatitis A & B Combined
  • MMR Measles, Mumps and Rubella
  • Varicella (Chicken pox)
  • DTP Diphtheria, Tetanus and Polio
  • Meningococcal ACWY
  • Typhoid
  • Flu
  • Tuberculosis (TB) - BCG vaccination
  • Tuberculosis (TB) Mantoux test & reading
  • Tuberculosis (TB) BCG scar check
  • Tuberculosis (TB) IGRA (Interferon Gamma Release Assay)
  • Tuberculosis (TB) POSITIVE IGRA test result = Respiratory referral
  • Hepatitis B
  • Measles
  • Mumps
  • Rubella
  • Varicella
  • Hepatitis B Surface Antigens
  • Hepatitis B RNA
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis C RNA
  • HIV
  • HIV (Viral Load)
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Cosham,
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