Trust Board Meetings

In August 2025, as part of the ongoing federation working, the Boards of Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust each agreed to move to a Board in Common arrangement for holding their Board meetings. In this arrangement each Board retains its own sovereignty and responsibilities, there will be time for organisation specific discussions, but the majority of strategic discussions, culture and engagement themes, and stakeholder and partnership issues will benefit from being discussed jointly. In practice this means that the Board meetings of each trust will take place at the same time, in the same place, with all Board members from each organisation present. Having this common forum will enable us to achieve the ambitions of our shared strategy more quickly.

Trust Board meetings are held in public, and are open to all. If you would like to dial in to the meeting please contact the corporate governance office to request the details by emailing abigail.baker@dchft.nhs.uk or jim.bailey2@nhs.net

Members of the public are welcome to submit questions to the Board ahead of the meeting by emailing the corporate governance office at the email address above.

Agendas and papers for Trust Board meetings are available below. If you would like to read the minutes of a particular Board meeting, these can be found in the papers for the following month’s meeting.