Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust


Service ID N/A
Organisation NHS England
Category Treatment
Local/National Local
Contact name N/A
Contact email
Phone 01305 251150

Fax 01305 254155

Address Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust,
Williams Avenue,
Dorchester,
Dorset

Web Links http://www.dchft.nhs.uk/Pages/home1.aspx

Regions Dorchester

Conditions All Health Conditions

Services offered Treatment

Location Dorchester

Resources http://www.dchft.nhs.uk/Pages/home1.aspx

Twitter @DCHFT

Description

Dorset County Hospital was established in 1991 as part of a long-term 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 250,000, 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 850,000.



Our 3,000 staff work in GP surgeries, schools, residential homes and people´s 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.

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