The artwork panels are being installed on our new multi-storey car park. These will feature images of famous Dorset landmarks that were voted for by the local community. Read more here.

Work to extend and improve our hospital facilities is now underway. Find out more about our plans here.

Dorset health organisations are delighted to have opened the new temporary Outpatient Assessment Centre at South Walks House in Dorchester to patients. Read more here.

We are refurbishing our current ED in preparation for longer-term plans to expand and transform both ED and the Intensive Care Unit. Read more here.

We’re so grateful to Friends of Dorset County Hospital who have raised an incredible £20,000 to purchase a new ultrasound machine for the Rheumatology Department. Read more here.

We’re so grateful to Friends of Dorset County Hospital who have raised an incredible £20,000 to purchase a new ultrasound machine for the Rheumatology Department. Read more here.

Dorset County Hospital has been ranked as one of the top 10 in the country for emergency care following an Urgency and Emergency Care Survey.

Evidence has shown that many patients with long term conditions, or following hospital treatment, do not need regular follow-up appointments with our hospital team.To support our patients in accessing timely…

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to privacy, dignity and patient safety, and as such complies with the Government’s requirement to eliminate mixed-sex accommodation, except where it is…

The coronavirus response had a significant impact on the services we provided to our patients, but we worked extremely hard to restart activities that were paused during the pandemic. During…