How you contact us is changing
As we become University Hospitals Dorset, how you contact Poole, the Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch hospitals will change from 1 October.
Telephone numbers beginning 01202 are being replaced with a new 0300 019 prefix, followed by the last four digits of the old number.
Switchboard numbers will stay the same - however if you are called by the hospital this will display as coming from the new 0300 019 prefix.
There are currently a range of different dialling prefixes which our patients and the public have told us can be confusing.
From 1 October there will be just one - 0300 019.
If you keep a hospital telephone number handy, it's simple to update it – just add the last four digits to the new prefix. For example, an old telephone number beginning 01202 and ending in extension '1234' becomes 0300 019 1234.
