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Palliative care is holistic care that focuses on comfort and quality of life and is available to all patients with a life limiting or incurable condition. This approach to care…
The Trust has a range of employment policies in place to support staff and these are available via the intranet. Following the national recommendations made by Baroness Dido Harding in…
You may need to come into hospital to see a specialist doctor or nurse in a clinic or have some tests done.To do this you will come as an ‘outpatient’.This…
You many need to come into hospital for some treatment or for an operation. If you need someone familiar to support you because you have specific needs then this can be…
There are Learning Disability and Autism Advocates on many different wards and departments across the hospital.They are staff who have personal experience with or are passionate about making sure people…
17 March 2021Dorset County Hospital’s Diagnostic Imaging Department has been received national recognition for the quality of its services.The department has been granted the Quality Standard for Imaging (QSI) accreditation.The…
Annually we anaesthetise 20,000 patients for operative procedures. We treat 500 patients in the critical care unit and provide anaesthetic services to 1,900 women during childbirth.We provide anaesthetic services at…
10 February 2020Women giving birth at Dorset County Hospital can be assured of high standards of care.Results from the Care Quality Commission’s 2019 Maternity Survey highlighted DCH as surpassing the…
12 February 2020A dedicated nurse at Dorset County Hospital has been shortlisted as a finalist in the British Journal of Nursing (BJN) Awards.Gynae-Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist Hilary Maxwell has been…
6 April 2020A couple from Portland have tied the knot at Dorset County Hospital to celebrate their love amidst the coronavirus pandemic.Tina and Mick Hickton exchanged their vows in the…