Summerlee (Formerly Jubilee Unit) is an inpatient unit situated on the First Floor of Harry Sotnick House in Portsmouth.
Summerlee comprises of 40 beds in total across 2 inpatient wards, which consist of rehabilitation beds for those needing specialist rehabilitation, and D2A beds for patients needing assessment around their long-term needs.
The unit is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year.
Visiting hours between 2pm and 8pm daily. If visiting is only possible outside of these times, please speak to the Nurse in Charge. 2 Adults and 1 Child are able to visit a patient at one time.
22 December 2025:
Following support from the The Portsmouth Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel and the Hampshire Health and Adult Social Care Committee at November 2025 meetings regarding how Rowan Ward will be used going forward, click the blue tile below to read key information about how the changes will be implemented.
22 December 2025:
Since July 2025 many people across our Hampshire communities have engaged with us on the PSEH proposals – our thanks go to everyone who has participated in this.
Your views and insights, shared with us face to face and online, have been incredibly valuable to help us further shape and strengthen the proposals, making sure they could deliver the very best home-based rehabilitation for our residents.
Take a look at the feedback and responses in full in the 'information resources' section here.
The proposals have now been supported in full by The Portsmouth Health Overview and Scrutiny Panel and the Hampshire Health and Adult Social Care Committee.
What will the changes enable?
The capacity for hospital-based rehabilitation exceeds demand. The changes to be put into effect will increase our ability to support more people with physical rehabilitation needs in their own home, preventing the need for a further, unnecessary hospital stay (in some cases far from home), all in line with evidence and best practice. This focused delivery of care will be achieved by shifting some resources from community hospital inpatient wards to strengthen our hospital at home (community) services.
Hospital-based rehabilitation will continue to be available for people requiring this type of care.
What are the timings for the changes and how will they be made?
Work is taking place to comprehensively support colleagues working at Summerlee Unit and Rowan Ward through these changes.
Our teams are incredibly skilled, and we highly value their daily contributions to supporting our service users. PSEH division leaders are committed to making sure our staff are well informed and involved, all in a thorough and organised way.
We are working with our partners to implement the changes now and expect to have fully completed a planned and managed transition to the enhanced home-based rehabilitation service by January 2026. This will result in 98 inpatient rehabilitation beds and 195 home-based rehabilitation spaces across the area, enabling us to better meet the demand.
How will you monitor and evaluate the changes?
We will monitor the changes closely with our system partners; along with assessing the demand for home-based and inpatient rehab, length of stay, occupancy and discharge delays across care pathways.
We will maintain close working relationships with local healthcare partners to ensure that the changes continue to support and deliver the very best outcomes under the Home First Approach, making sure that any changes do not bring about a negative impact on staffing or care.