Visitors Information

VISITOR ADVICE: To protect our patients from infection we ask visitors NOT to visit the hospital if you have had vomiting or diarrhoea within the previous 72 hours.

If you are visiting the hospital please ensure you thoroughly wash your hands at the hand hygiene stations before and after your visit.

For more advice please contact Patient and Customer Services

 

Justvisiting.com the online patient visiting room

A new website is helping hospital patients and people who are housebound and their families and carers keep in touch.

Justvisiting.com is a free confidential social networking site designed to support not only people in hospital or recovering at home but critically their families and carers.

Patients visiting the site from their hospital bedside or home benefit from more social contact and interaction while family and friends can log onto the site to view updates of the patient‘s progress - saving nursing staff and family members from sharing the news via costly phone calls.

The online service was created in the North East and with NHS backing is already being successfully used in numerous hospitals throughout the UK.

Dame Christine Beasley, chief nursing officer and world-renowned author Bill Bryson are patrons of the website.

Click on the Just Visiting logo above to visit the website.

More information for visitors:

Getting Here

Directions, travel and parking information, including maps on both the site and how to get there.

Visiting Hours

Ward visiting times at Dorset County Hospital.

Wards and Departments

An A–to–Z list of wards and departments at Dorset County Hospital.

General information

A wealth of information on policies, facilities at the hospital including information on accessing medial records.

Patient Advice and Liaison Service

PALS can answer any questions you or your family may have.

How to raise concerns

Information on making a formal complaint.

Infection prevention and control

Our commitments to controlling and preventing infection.