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The Winterbourne Hospital

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Herringston Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 2DR (01305) 263252

Provided and run by:
Circle Health Group Limited

Assessment report published 21 November 2025

Ratings

  • Overall

    Good

  • Safe

    Good

  • Effective

    Good

  • Caring

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Well-led

    Requires improvement

Our view of the service

We assessed The Winterbourne Hospital on 6 August 2025.

We assessed 1 assessment service group, Outpatients, at this location. This assessment looked at outpatient services [which we rated as good. We inspected outpatients because it was rated requires improvement at the last inspection. We found the service had made improvements following the last inspection in 2022.

The Winterbourne Hospital is registered with CQC to deliver the regulated activities: Family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury, surgical procedures and diagnostic and screening procedures. The service had a controlled drugs accountable officer and a Registered Manager.

The rating from outpatients has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. We rated the location as Good.