Isle of Wight health

The Isle of Wight’s mortality rate for drug misuse deaths is also 67 per cent higher than the national average for 2016-18.

The telehealth ‘box’ is just one of the uses of technology aimed at reducing visits to the emergency department.

The 'end of life care companions' have been carefully selected and given comprehensive training by experts in end of life care at Mountbatten

It’s important to plan ahead and check your medicine supplies to ensure you have enough to last throughout the bank holiday weekend and beyond. List of pharmacies open on the Bank Holiday Monday.

The reliance on agency staff for the ward, which recently underwent a £200,000 refurbishment, was viewed as unsustainable.

NSPCC say estimated 138,391 children in the South East who have been abused or neglected are living with inadequate plans for their mental health needs, or with no plans for their care at all.

The Isle of Wight Green party say only putting money into Capital projects (buildings and IT) does not protect the quality of existing services on the Island.

Isle of Wight politicians share their responses to the news that Isle of Wight NHS Trust will receive a £48m cash boost for the acute services redesign.

Isle of Wight NHS Trust, which runs ambulance, community, hospital and mental health services on the Island, will receive the money as part of a national allocation of capital funding for NHS upgrades.

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust say they're totally committed to improving services and their teams have been working flat out to achieve their ambition of ‘Getting to Good’ by 2020.

The merged practice will encourage access to health services through wider use of technology, such as online ordering of repeat prescriptions, online booking of appointments, e-consultations and health advice.