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A CRITICAL incident has been declared at University Hospitals Dorset with pressures over limited beds, staffing issues and Covid problems taking…

A CRITICAL incident has been declared at University Hospitals Dorset with pressures over limited beds, staffing issues and Covid problems taking…

The first of thousands of hospital patients to be seen at the new ‘health village’ in Poole's Dolphin Centre will have their appointments next…

RAPID access 'pop up' hospital clinics treating hundreds of patients each day could be established in shopping centres and possibly other venues. The seven-days-a-week scheme is being worked up by University Hospitals Dorset, the trust which runs Bournemouth and Poole hospitals. Extensive space is being considered for use at the Dolphin Centre in Poole and the Sovereign Centre by NHS bosses as part of a 'thinking differently' programme as the service gets to grips with huge backlog of patients on waiting lists, post-Covid. Around 45,000 people are waiting for treatment, with 5,500 hav...

The number of patients at the four trusts waiting at least a year from their referral until they are treated has grown from just 20 pre-pandemic to 5,737. Between January last year and the same month this year the proportion of people with cancer receiving their first treatment from Imperial College Healthcare NHS trust within 62 days of being urgently referred by their GP fell from 82% to 73.8%. The NHS constitution says that 85% of such care, such as surgery or chemotherapy, should begin within the specified 62 days. Similarly, until the pandemic, only 0.7% of patients at Imperial were not ...