Art for outpatients at the Outpatients Assessment Clinic

11 June 2022

University Hospitals Dorset commissioned students from Arts University Bournemouth to create artwork for the community outpatients assessment clinic @ Dorset Health Village.Students were set with two briefs, to help patients feel more relaxed, and more confident when navigating around the clinic.

Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, visits Beales

17 February 2022

We were delighted to welcome Sajid Javid for a tour of the Outpatient Assessment Clinic. Colleagues were invited to talk about how the facility is playing as a vital part in tackling hospital waiting lists as well as increasing the volume of life-saving screening as part of Dorset’s Think Big initiative

Waiting list busting clinic in department store

8 February 2022

BBC South Today report on Amanda Pritchard, CEO of NHS England, visit to our outpatient assessment clinic to outline plans for NHS elective recovery.

Outlining new elective recovery plan

8 February 2022

Tweet from NHS England and NHS Improvement featuring video of Amanda Pritchard, CEO of NHS England, in our outpatient assessment clinic announcing that the NHS will build dozens more community diagnostic centres, to boost NHS capacity to offer more people vital checks and tests

Coping with increased demand across the NHS

13 January 2022

ITV News national news item on the demand across our services at UHD, featuring the work of our outpatient assessment clinic to help tackle this.

Launch of outpatient assessment clinic

20 December 2021

BBC South Today report on the launch of our outpatient assessment clinic at Beales department store to tackle growing NHS waiting lists

Vaccination hub in department store

20 December 2021

ITV Meridian news feature on how our outpatient assessment clinic also carried out Covid vaccinations at its launch.

UHD news release on launch of outpatient assessment clinic

20 December 2021

Today sees the opening of a brand new outpatient assessment clinic in the centre of Poole. This purpose-built centre on the top floor of Beales Department store in the Dolphin Centre will play a vital part in tackling hospital waiting lists and increasing the volume of life-saving screening.

NHS clinic in Beales at Poole is praised by NHS chief

01 November 2021

Mark Cubbon, chief operating officer of NHS England, toured the outpatient assessment clinic under construction on the second floor Beales. Andy Martin report for the Bournemouth Echo

First clinical equipment delivery to Beales

29 October 2021

Richard Slee from ITV Meridian reports on the breast screening equipment being delivered to Beales Department store which is being converted in a bid to ease pressured NHS waiting lists

Building work to create our new outpatient assessment clinic

15 October 2021

Work has started to transform the top floor of Beales department store in the Dolphin Centre in Poole into an outpatient assessment clinic. Film shows the speed of progress and focuses on the materials used that have come from the Nightingale Hospitals.

Shopping centre clinics to help tackle NHS backlog

1 October 2021

BBC News online report on new one-stop shops for scans and tests will be set up in community venues in England, including shopping centres and a Premier League football stadium.

Work begins on part of Beales becoming NHS outpatient unit

27 September 2021

Andy Martin reports in the Bournemouth Echo on the healthcare revolution going on within the walls of Dolphin Centre in Poole.

NHS centre on top floor of Beales

21 September 2021

Steve Harris from BBC Radio Solent Breakfast in Dorset visits the top floor of Beales to see the start of the transformation of the retail space to an outpatient assessment clinic

Think Big at Beales

12 September 2021

Ashleigh Boreham speaks to BBC Radio Solent in Southampton about our project to use retail space in a completely different way to help our patients across Dorset

 

BBC South Today report on Think Big

22 August 2021

Alastair Fee, BBC South Today health editor, visits the top floor of Beales as the space is being cleared to make way for the new outpatient assessment clinic. He spoke to Tony Brown, CEO of Beales, on why he wanted to work with the NHS in this way.

Beales in Poole to be used as clinics for hospital patients

12 August 2021

Hundreds of hospital patients are set to be seen each at clinics on the top floor of Beales department store in Poole's Dolphin Centre in a bid to tackle long waiting lists. Andy Martin reports

 

Planning for Think Big

27 April 2021

NHS staff from across Dorset and partner organisations met in the Bournemouth International Centre to start planning our outpatient assessment clinic.

 

NHS increases surgery sessions to tackle hospital waiting lists

23 April 2021

Report in Guardian newspaper on University Hospitals Dorset trust taking over one floor of a shopping centre in Poole to set up a “health pop-up village” the size of half a football pitch in what is believed to be the first such initiative in the NHS.