DORSET NHS leaders are to resume consultations with local people over the future of community services in the north Dorset area, they promised last week. Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group and Dorset Healthcare said …

The NHS has made an appeal for new blood donors to come forward to ensure stocks are maintained, especially after the festive period when blood stock levels tend to fall. NHS Blood and …

Members of Shaftesbury Town Council have agreed to ‘kick-start’ the process of getting the community together to decide the best way forward for Shaftesbury’s Westminster Memorial Hospital following the decision to save the …

Dorset Care Commissioning Group (CCG) has officially decided that the threatened inpatient beds at Westminster Memorial Hospital are to be saved after all. The health body today backed a recommendation that the 15 …

The threatened inpatient beds at Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury look likely to be saved after all, writes Richard Thomas. The health body Dorset Care Commissioning Group (CCG) has today announced a U-turn …

GP surgeries in North Dorset have had contrasting results in the GP Survey 2017 which measures medical practices county by county on their performance. The Gillingham Medical Practice which has two centres in …

Authorities in Dorest and across the South West are supporting a campaign that raises the profile of care and the positive role of care workers in a drive to recruit the right people …

Health chiefs promise they will take into account the ‘strength of feeling’ in North Dorset about plans to close 15 beds at the Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury. Their comments came after the …

Groups campaigning against plans to axe the 15 medical beds at Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury have handed in thousands of responses from the general public. Julian Pritchard of the Save Our Beds …