Our busy, modern hospital provides a full range of district general services, including an emergency department, and links with satellite units in five community hospitals. Find your perfect role and join the DCH family.

Children and their parents have highlighted their positive experience at the hospital in the latest Children and Young People Patient Experience Survey. Read more here.

Guardianship – Together for the CommunitySupportmatch Homeshare and Support&Match CIC is working in partnership with NHS England, Charities and Local Authorities to provide safe and affordable accommodation to NHS staff, social care workers and mature students across the UK.The programme, known as…

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.

We have made some improvements to the existing Emergency Department (ED) that will help increase our capacity in the short-term and also pave the way for bigger plans to expand…

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.

22 October 2021Patients have praised the level of care experienced at Dorset County Hospital.The latest inpatient survey, carried out by the Picker Institute on behalf of the Care Quality Commission,…

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.