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Win a voucher with Dorset NHS Liftshare
Win one of 50 £20 cinema vouchers with Dorset NHS Liftshare!
Launched in October, Dorset NHS Liftshare is open to all staff across Dorset giving access to cheaper commutes, dedicated Liftshare bays on some sites, and helping to reduce congestion and air pollution!
Throughout January, we are also giving away a cinema voucher to staff members that take an authenticated Liftshare trip.*
To Liftshare you will need to follow all the steps from registration, team creation, planning your journey and validating the trip. All guidance can be found here: Liftshare (uhd.nhs.uk)
To claim your voucher, you will need to record the authenticated trip in the Liftshare activity within the Ecoearn system here.
*Max one voucher per member of staff. Vouchers to be assigned on a first come first served basis and are limited to 50 vouchers across the Dorset Trusts.
Background to CSR
NHS Dorset CCG have produced a website – Dorset's Vision – which explains how we are working together to improve healthcare in Dorset.
The future of acute healthcare:
- Hospitals in East Dorset will have specialist roles
- Bournemouth will become a Major Emergency Hospital
- Poole will become a Major Planned Hospital
- Dorset County Hospital will remain largely unchanged delivering planned and emergency care
You can visit the Dorset Vision website here.
Recent transformation videos
Latest news on our transformation plans
Dr. Isabel Smith, consultant anaesthetist and medical director for strategy and transformation at University Hospitals Dorset, gives an update on the exciting £500m transformation plan for our hospitals.
Dr Harry Adlington, UHD's clinical director for emergency and urgent care, narrates this short film of the bright future for emergency care.
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Poole Hospital
Royal Bournemouth hospital
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General
Merger and reconfiguration
On 1 October 2020, the two trusts that ran Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals merged to form University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust (UHD), with ambitious plans to improve and transform services for patients.
This merger has been nine years in the making, with an earlier proposal prohibited by the Competition and Markets Authority. Since then, the two trusts have been working with partners across Dorset to develop a compelling future vision for the transformation of services. Clinicians and staff across both trusts, along with key local stakeholders, are now very clear that the merger will bring about significant benefits for patients.
The new organisation is designated as a 'university hospital trust', having formalised the links with Bournemouth University that both hospital trusts have enjoyed for many years. This reinforces the commitment of the new organisation to expanding research, fostering innovation and prioritising education and training.
The new University Hospitals Dorset employs more than 9,000 staff and has an annual turnover of more than £630m. Each hospital – Poole Hospital, the Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Christchurch Hospital – will retain its own name, and will benefit from significant future investment, planned for all three sites as part of the trust's ambitious capital programme.
Read the merger announcement in full here.
Watch again the 'As One Show' a virtual celebration event held for staff and public on merger day, hosted by trust chief executive, Debbie Fleming, and trust chairman David Moss.
Christchurch Hospital
Changes at Christchurch Hospital are planned including the charity funded new Macmillan Unit. A public consultation in early 2020 set out options to create a senior living community, with affordable shared ownership housing.
