Kimmeridge Ward
- Poole Hospital
- level 0 in the YELLOW ZONE (A): View map
This is an elderly medical assessment unit for patients predominantly 80 years and over. The unit is open seven days a week.
Contact us
Ward staff : 0300 019 2703
This number has an answerphone 07:00-11:00. If urgent please page the coordinator via the switchboard available 08:00-16:00, Monday-Friday.
Telephone enquiries
Please arrange, where possible, for only one named person to phone the ward to make enquiries and to relay the information to other relatives and friends. If you are making routine enquiries, it would be helpful to the ward staff if you call between 14:00 and 15:00 as there are more nurses available on the ward between those times to speak to you. Please note confidential information can never be given over the telephone. If you would like to speak to a Doctor, this can be arranged, please speak to a member of the staff to arrange.
Useful Ward Information
There are telephones/televisions by each bedside which may be rented; these are operated by cards which may be obtained from the machines at the ward entrance and on the C/E block lift landing.
Your Bedside Unit
When you reach your hospital bed, just follow the instructions on the bedside screen to get yourself set up on the TV. It only takes a few moments and then you're all set. To use our services, you will need to create an account first. If you have problems getting started, just pick up your bedside phone to speak to our Customer Care Team. This is always a FREE call from the bedside, and our Advisors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Clothes
We encourage all our patients to wear day clothes during the daytime. This promotes their dignity and helps them to return to normal routines as soon as possible. Please assist us in this by ensuring you/your relative has a supply of easy-to-wear day clothes.
Personal belongings
We advise that personal belongings of high value or large sums of money are not brought into the ward. The hospital does not take responsibility for the safety of belongings for those patients who wish to keep them with them unless handed in and a receipt obtained. A hospital safe is available for those patients who do not have relatives to take these items home or who are unable to consent to taking responsibility for their possessions. We ask that if you take an item home from your relative than please inform the nursing staff so that this can be recorded.
Visiting times
We have set visiting times from 14-19pm to allow us to provide care and for our patients to rest. Recently, our visiting times have had to alter due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and requirements around infection control. For the most up to date information, please read the visitor guidance here. These times may be varied in exceptional circumstances. To arrange this, or if you wish to participate in your relative's care or assist them at mealtimes, please speak to the staff nurse in charge.
Please see Trust Visitors Charter here
Parking
A multi-storey car park is situated on the main hospital site, the entrance to which is on Longfleet Road (a covered walkway from the car park (level G) leads to the main hospital). The payment terminal for the multi-storey is in the main entrance and accepts coins, notes or credit / debit cards. Payment may also be made at the security/ car parks office which is also located in the main entrance next to reception (card only). Please make sure that you make payment before returning to your vehicle. The car parking office is in the main entrance next to the hospital reception. Motorcycles can be parked for free of charge in the designated motorcycle parking areas.
If your visiting is extended over a number of days due to special circumstances you may be entitled to a reduction in car park fees. To enquire about your entitlement please contact the ward staff who can give you a form (at the discretion of the Nurse in Charge) for you to complete and take to the Car Park Manager in the Car Park Office of the main entrance of Poole Hospital.
Our performance
If you would like to see how we are performing as a ward, you can do so here.
