To celebrate 70 years of both the NHS and Social Care, Healthwatch Dorset has made its own birthday card for local services.
Martyn Webster, Healthwatch Dorset manager, explains:
"Health and Social Care services often ask their patients and service users what they think of the service they receive – was it...
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a fatal road traffic collision near Dorchester.
At 2.42pm on Tuesday 31 July 2018 Dorset Police was called to a report of a collision involving a black Land Rover Discovery and a blue Aprilia motorcycle on Warmwell Road in Crossways.
The collision...
Myself and local Green Party activist Chris Rigby are working to get Winton Library Gardens reopened. This is a lovely space that should be available to be enjoyed by local residents. At the council meeting on 19th June I asked about the gardens which have been closed for too...
Managed by Encore Care Homes, Great Oaks’ home administrator, Sarah Sims, has taken part in the Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Great Oaks, the residential, nursing and dementia care home in Bournemouth, held a coffee morning to help raise funds for Sarah’s 22-mile trek...
Officers are appealing for witnesses to come forward following a serious injury collision in Purbeck.
At 2.30pm yesterday, Tuesday 17 July 2018, a road traffic collision occurred on the A351 between Stoborough and the Halfway Inn involving a grey BMW motorcycle and a grey and black Renault Captur.
The rider of...
Today's memorable points:
The defence told how important it was to do something, and not do nothing - over lunch the consultant who saved Lewisham Hospital said they said the same thing about Lewisham - now they are all really glad it stayed open! Then we watched later as the...
DEFEND DORSET NHS/SAVE PORTLAND BEDS
Today's Judicial Review brief notes:
Saving Lives - CCG claim that they will save 60 lives with their plan - revealed that they could not provide any evidence
Travel times - revealed CCG had not done sufficient, in depth further investigation into risk of longer travel times
Care...
It was eight o’clock when my waters broke. I was reading my son his bedtime story, ‘The Snail and the Whale’.
Appropriate for me at nearly two weeks overdue. I dutifully and calmly rang Dorchester hospital and they said ‘come in when you have been having contractions less than every...
Bournemouth’s Town Centre BID Rangers have been praised for their quick, calm and professional response to a raremedical emergency.
Whilst patrolling the streets on one busy June weekend, the on-duty team of Bournemouth Town Centre BID Rangers received a radio call from the town centre camera operators. Asking for assistance, they informed them that a...
I'm going to share something with you that to be honest is humiliating to talk about, but I do it in order for you, should you have to, not make the same mistakes I have over the last year.
A year ago last May, I started to have problems having...
