South West · NHS Dorset ICB
A&E in Dorset
3 A&E departments in the Dorset NHS area, with the share of people seen within 4 hours in September 2026. England: 61%.
Within 4 hours, hospital by hospital
The share of attendances in September 2026 where the patient was admitted, transferred or sent home within 4 hours of arriving. England: 61%.
- Dorset County Hospital – 61%
- Poole Hospital – 70%
- The Royal Bournemouth Hospital – 67%
The list is in alphabetical order, not a ranking. This is a fact about the A&E department, not a grade or a verdict. Departments see different patients: one that admits more people, or takes the most seriously ill, will often have longer times.
The figures are for type 1 and 2 departments: major emergency departments open 24 hours, and specialist ones such as eye hospitals. Urgent treatment centres, minor injury units and walk-in centres are not included.
NHS England publishes the latest month (September 2026) as provisional and may revise it next month.
Source: NHS England, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) tables, October 2025 to September 2026 (published 8 October 2026). Open Government Licence. NHS England publishes the hospital figures as experimental statistics, as received from hospitals, with counts rounded to the nearest 5.
NHS trusts in Dorset
Each hospital is run by an NHS trust. A trust’s page has its official monthly figures for every type of A&E it runs, urgent treatment centres included.
More areas in South West
Data updated
The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.
- A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions: (published 8 October 2026)
Sources
- Contains public sector information from NHS England licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, monthly, and its ECDS Performance tables. Contains Office for National Statistics data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.