Ward 4
Welcome to Ward 4, we look after elderly medical patients.
- Royal Bournemouth hospital
- Location: A9R View map
- Ward staff: 0300 019 4757 / 0300 019 4465 / 0300 019 5830
Visiting times
We have set visiting times 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.
The Older Person's Assessment and Liaison Team provide specialist inpatient therapy assessments and interventions to older people presenting with frailty at RBH. We have a large team of inter-disciplinary therapists and therapy assistants who work across the Frailty Pathway seeing patients who are triaged OPM across RBH.
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.
Meal times
We operate a protected meal time system. This means that visiting is not allowed during this time as nutrition is an important part of a patient’s recovery. If you would like someone visiting to support you during meal times, please discuss this with the nurse in charge.
Our meal times are 12.30-1pm and 5.30-6.30pm.
Parking
The payment terminal for the car parks accepts only credit / debit cards payments.
Please make sure that you make payment before returning to your vehicle. 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.
WIFI
Free Wi-Fi is now available to patients and visitors to the hospital, kindly funded by the Poole Hospital Charity. It can be accessed with the following steps:
- Turn your devices Wi-Fi on
- Select ‘NHS Wi-Fi’ from the available networks list
- Open your browser and follow
Our performance
If you would like to see how we are performing as a ward, you can do so here.
