Health

A care home has been downgraded after an inspection found medicines were not properly stored and accidents not always appropriately reported.

A campaign group fighting to save the former Fenwick hospital in Lyndhurst have unveiled plans to list it as an asset of community value.

New Forest walkers have been advised to take care after it was announced a serious disease carried by ticks is likely to be in England.

Vulnerable care home residents in New Milton were among the first people in Hampshire to get their Covid booster jabs as part of a spring campaign.

The cost to see and be treated by an NHS dentist will increase next month, price changes the British Dental Association are calling "grotesque".

A family with a four-month-old baby had to fight for a refund after fleeing a Hordle hotel having woken up to find “bed bugs” all over them.

A mother and son have been turned into cartoon characters for a campaign to raise awareness of the challenges faced by people with autism.

After a series of delays, a £10m replacement hospital with top-of-the range diagnostic services has been officially opened in Hythe.

Liz Hendrie is given an insight into the unsettling world experienced by thousands across Hampshire.

councillors have agreed a near-half-million-pound rescue package to keep Christchurch's award-winning public leisure centre operating.

An auction planned to sell the former Fenwick hospital site has been postponed to the delight of the campaigners trying to save it for the community.

A 19-year-old student from Barton is planning to run a fundraising half-marathon just months after his life was saved by a cousin and a friend.

Multivitamins which were sold by Boots are being recalled because of undeclared ingredients, the Food Standards Agency is warning.

Women prescribed HRT for the menopause are to be saved hundreds of pounds each year under a new prescription deal announced for their medication.

A New Forest MP has urged a government minister to block the sale of the former Fenwick hospital until the ownership of the site is clarified.

GMB Union ambulance workers who cover the New Forest and Christchurch will join strike action across the south on Monday.

New Forest District Council is set to pay the organisation which runs its five leisure centres a further £270,000 to address an income deficit.

A doctor who worked at a local NHS trust has been struck off after doing”serious harm” to his patients, including delaying two cancer diagnoses.

A public meeting is to be held tomorrow by supporters of the former Fenwick hospital to plan how to stop it being sold off.

It was a royal welcome for a Sway couple's newborn baby girl who can boast of having Princess Anne as one of her very first visitors.