acute services are provided by hampshire hospitals nhs foundation trust, portsmouth hospitals nhs trust and university hospital southampton nhs foundation trust. proposals made in 2015 for a new critical treatment hospital at north waltham, hampshire were not supported by the local clinical commissioning groups joint commissioners' steering group. since 2008 there have been proposals to reorganise vascular services and to concentrate them in southampton, but the portsmouth trust has repeatedly objected.