Poole Hospital

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust provides acute and emergency services to people living in Poole, Bournemouth and East Dorset. University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of hospital and community-based care to a population of 771,000 based in the Dorset, New Forest and south Wiltshire areas.

Core services include urgent and emergency care, medical care, surgery, critical care, outpatient services, maternity services, end of life care, diagnostic services and services for children and young people. The trust provides 1,220 inpatient beds and 150 day care beds. There is a 24-hour emergency department at both The Royal Bournemouth Hospital and at Poole Hospital, which is the designated trauma unit for East Dorset.

On 1 October 2020, The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Poole General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust merged to form a new organisation. Poole General Hospital is a location within the trust.

The trust provides a wide range of hospital and community-based care; and employs approximately 8,400 members of staff, both clinical and non-clinical.

The trust has not been rated since the merger in October 2020. The hospital's ratings were inherited from the previous provider.

We carried out a focused inspection with a short notice on 28 September 2022. The inspection was carried out because we had concerns about care and treatment in some areas of medical care. We did not look at all key lines of enquiry but limited these to areas where concerns had been raised.

We also inspected maternity services at this location. Please see separate maternity report for further information.

For a focused inspection, ratings can be applied to areas where enforcement action is taken.