Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Royal Bournemouth Hospital
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Royal Bournemouth Hospital is located in Dorset
Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Shown in Dorset
Geography
LocationBournemouth, Dorset, England
Coordinates50°44′52.4″N 1°49′18.71″W / 50.747889°N 1.8218639°W / 50.747889; -1.8218639
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeGeneral
Services
Yes
Beds723 [1]
History
Founded1989
Links
Websitewww.uhd.nhs.uk/hospitals-bournemouth Edit this at Wikidata
ListsHospitals in England

The Royal Bournemouth Hospital is an acute general hospital in Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is managed by the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital was managed by The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust until the merger with Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2020.

Location

The hospital is located a short distance from the Wessex Way (A338) in Castle Lane East (A3060) in Bournemouth. It is served by bus routes operated by Morebus. Bournemouth railway station is approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the hospital.[2]

History

The first phase of the hospital, which replaced the Royal Victoria Hospital,[a] opened in 1989.[4] A second phase of the hospital was opened by Princess Anne in 1992.[4] A Cardiac Intervention Unit was opened in April 2005 and the Derwent Hospital, a 28-bed unit previously operated as a private hospital, was purchased in 2007.[4][5]

Various acute services were transferred from Christchurch Hospital to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital in 2010.[6]

On 3 November 2021, a ceremony was carried out to mark the start of construction work on building a new wing. The project is part of a £250 million reorganisation of healthcare in Dorset.[7]

On 6 May 2022, Charles, Prince of Wales opened a lavender garden at the hospital dedicated to hospital staff who died during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]

In 2023, the Royal Bournemouth Hospital became the NHS’s first healthcare facility in the United Kingdom to have a section of its hospital under construction using AI technology developed by Buildots, an Israeli AI software platform that analyzes data captured at a building site through 360-degree cameras mounted on helmets.[9]

The new six-storey BEACH building (Births, Emergencies And Critical Care, Children’s Health) was completed in early 2025 with teams moving in from March 2025.[10]

Services

It has a 24-hour accident & emergency department.[11] It also provides district-wide services for vascular surgery and urology. Outpatient clinics are provided for oral surgery, paediatrics, plastic surgery, ENT (ears, nose and throat), cardiothoracic and neurology.[12]

It is also the home to a diabetic unit called BDEC, which treats and educates local patients diagnosed with all types of diabetes. They also run specialised groups, one of those being the YPDS,[13] for young people aged between 16 and 23, supporting them between the children's team and the adult team.[14]

Now that the BEACH building is mostly operational, Maternity services are now available at RBH rather than Poole. With Children's Health still at Poole Hospital until the moves have been completed.[15]

Performance

The independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), rated the Royal Bournemouth Hospital as "Requires Improvement" overall in March 2.[16] The findings of the report are summarised in the table below:

Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-led Overall
Urgent and emergency services Good Good Good Good Outstanding Good
Medical care Good Good Good Good Good Good
Surgery Requires Improvement Good Good Good Requires Improvement Requires Improvment
Critical care Good Good Good Requires improvement Good Good
Maternity and gynaecology Requires Improvement Good Good Good Requires Improvement Requires Improvment
Services for children and young people Good Good Outstanding Good Good Good
End of life care Good Good Good Good Good Good
Outpatients and diagnostic imaging Good Not rated Good Good Good Good
'Overall' Requires Improvement

Porters

A 12-minute film entitled Porters made by students from Newport Film School at the hospital in 2015, told the story of the hospital's porters. It won a number of awards and was added to the British Film Institute's national archives.[17]

Other hospitals in group

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Sixteen of the original W. B. Simpson tile panels from the Royal Victoria Hospital may be found, mounted on the stairs of the hospital. The panels, which date from 1910, show nursery rhymes and fairy tales.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Bournemouth Hospital" (PDF). Care Quality Commission. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "Welcome to The Royal Bournemouth Hospital" (PDF). NHS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 October 2007. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  3. ↑ "Boscombe Hospital, Shelley Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Dorset". 25 June 2010 – via Flickr.
  4. 1 2 3 "21 Achievements over 21 years" (PDF). Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 December 2010. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "Welcome to the Derwent" (PDF). Royal Bournemouth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Hospital bosses blasted over Christchurch ward closure consultation". Bournemouth Echo. 9 December 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ceremony marks start of work to build new hospital". ITV News. 3 November 2021. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  8. ↑ "Prince Charles opens staff garden at Royal Bournemouth Hospital". BBC News. 6 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
  9. ↑ Leichman, Abigail Klein (29 January 2023). "Israeli AI construction technology helps build UK hospital". ISRAEL21c.
  10. ↑ "BEACH hospital on track to receive pioneering healthcare comms". Healthcare Design and Management. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  11. ↑ "Accident And Emergency Department - Royal Bournemouth Hospital". Dorset Family Information Directory. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Hospital guide: The Royal Bournemouth Hospital". Dr Foster. 2010. Retrieved 19 July 2010.
  13. ↑ "Young People's Diabetes Service (YPDS)". www.uhd.nhs.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  14. ↑ "BDEC".
  15. ↑ "Delay in the move of services". www.uhd.nhs.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2026.
  16. ↑ "Royal Bournemouth Hospital Quality Report". Care Quality Commission.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ↑ "Bournemouth RBH porters will go down in history as award-winning short film is added to BFI archive". Bournemouth Echo. 11 December 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
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