The League of Friends raised just short of £600 for Westminster Memorial Hospital at their recent Summer Fair. ‘Shaftesbury’s mayor, Tim Cook, kindly opened the Fair,’ says Denise Potter, a volunteer Hospital Trustee …

A surprise attempt by Shaftesbury Town Council to protect Westminster Memorial Hospital from sale or redevelopment by getting it put on the register of ‘assets of community value’ unexpectedly stalled last night, 29 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The annual salary bill of the organisation that is pushing for the removal of the 15 inpatient beds at the Westminster Memorial Hospital in Shaftesbury comes to more than £10 million, it has …

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 …