Dorset County Hospital

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Name :

Dorset County Hospital

Address  :

Williams Avenue

Town  :

Dorchester

State  :

Dorset

Country  :

UK

Post Code:

DT1 2JY

Phone  :

01305 251150

Fax  :

01305 254155

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

headquarters@dchft.nhs.uk
Specialization
  • Anaesthesiology
  • Daibetes, Endocrinology
  • Dermatology
  • Mammography(Digital)
  • Orthopedics
  • Pain Management
  • Pathology Lab
  • Urology
  • X-Ray
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 400

Other Facilities

  • Pathology
  • X-Ray
Description
Our Vision
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is currently consulting on its fiveyear plan

Information on this and the Trusts vision for the hospitals future will be placed here when the consultation is complete

Trust Profile
Dorset County Hospital was established in 1991 as part of a longterm project to bring together all the local services for acutely ill patients onto one hospital site The new hospital just outside Dorchester town centre was completed in 1997

We were awarded Foundation Trust status in June 2007

Our busy modern hospital provides a full range of district general services including an accident and emergency department and links with satellite units in five community hospitals

We are the main provider of acute hospital services to a population of around 210000 living within Weymouth and Portland West Dorset North Dorset and Purbeck We also provide renal services for patients throughout Dorset and South Somerset a total population of 850000

Our 3000 staff work in GP surgeries schools residential homes and peoples own homes as well as Dorset County Hospital and the community hospitals

Dorset County Hospital has approximately 400 beds seven main theatres and two day theatres and has been designed with a major commitment to Public Arts in Hospital Related services are grouped into three connected wings North South and East Entry to the hospital is gained via nine main entrances Click here for maps of the hospital site
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