students from Kingston Maurward College with staff from Dorset County Hospital discussing plans for the sensory garden. Click here to read more.

Patients and staff at Dorset hospitals met Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Victoria Atkins when she visited the county last week. Click to read more.

Ridgeway Ward is being transformed into dedicated space for people having elective orthopaedic surgery as part of a drive to reduce waiting times.

Plans to develop the DCH site, including building a brand-new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit, have been given the green light by local planners. Read more here.

This page will help you if you are coming to work for our hospital from overseas – from how to get your visa to finding somewhere to live. We want…

I’m Isobel, I have been a Medical Trust Grade SHO at Dorset County Hospital since August 2022, and I am starting my IMT 1 in August 2023 – also at…

Following outline planning permission being granted in January 2023, the latest designs for Dorset County Hospital’s new Emergency Department and Critical Care Unit have now been submitted to Dorset Council. Click to read more.

The Weymouth Research Hub is inviting local people to come forward and get involved. This new NHS-backed centre offers people in Weymouth, Portland and across West Dorset the chance to…

Health organisations in Dorset secured more than £14million to transform two floors of South Walks House in Dorchester into clinical space.Dorset County Hospital (DCH) had been running an Outpatient Assessment…

We have been earmarked approximately £100M from the Government’s New Hospital Programme to expand services on our Dorchester site, including building a brand new Emergency Department (ED) and Critical Care…