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Vikki Slade, Mid Dorset and North Poole MP, visited the Friends of Victoria Hospital, Wimborne at the beginning of April.

Wimborne’s Victoria Hospital has taken heart from the arrival of a new ‘echo’ machine, thanks to a donation by its League of Friends charity group.

Fortunately Wimborne, Shaftesbury and Weymouth will be open, but Bridport, Sherborne and Swanage will be closed.

Three centres in Dorset will be open on 18 and 19 January but four others will be closed during the strike.

Work starts in the New Year to upgrade the radiology department thanks to funding from the Friends of Victoria Hospital.

Busier than ever, the units across the county have now re-opened, with Wimborne retaining its extended hours.

A Dorset community hospital has met national accreditation standards for its gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy services once again.

Wimborne Hospital will host a new Breathlessness service run by a respiratory specialist physiotherapist from Lewis-Manning Hospice Care.

The MIU at Victoria Hospital, along with several others in Dorset is re-opening on Friday 1 April with longer opening hours.

Staffing difficulties, made more challenging by Covid-19 related absences, have resulted in the planned temporary closure of three Dorset MIUs.