Salisbury District Hospital

Salisbury District Hospital is situated in Odstock, a village to the South of Salisbury and is on a hill providing beautiful views from many of the wards. My mother recently had a hip replacement operation and we were very impressed and pleased with the care and attention she received while in the hospital. There are two entrances to the hospital, Entrance A is home to A&E and the newer building of the hospital which has replace Entrance B as the main site. The other part of the hospital is terribly dated. I have had several visits to the A&E department over the last few years (clumsy!) and have found it much the same as any other small A&E; slow and ...  Read the complete review

Last Thursday, 9th November, I cut my second knuckle on my left had whilst gardening. It was a small cu, but deep; not bleeding much, but you could see the bone. The chemist sent me to the surgery; the surgery to hospital. I arrived at A&E at about 10am and was booked in. within 30 minutes, I was seen by an efficient, but comforting triage nurse, who suggested it was likely to be a plastic case as she could see that the tendon was likely to be severed. I sat in A&E for up to another hour before seeing a doctor (and the original triage nurse checking her fears) and a plastic surgeon was paged. in the meantime, I was taken straight away to XRay ...  Read the complete review

It all started last Wednesday night. I sat down comfortably to watch the England match and waited for my fiancé Simon to return from taking his mother to work. All of a sudden there was a bang on the door. At first I thought he must have forgotten his key but the bang got louder. I panicked as I imagined a team full of men breaking the door down armed with baseball caps. I heard Simon’s voice, asking me to answer. I opened it and saw him there grabbing his hand. I was quite confused at first, I didn’t know what he was doing as it was dark. He raced off and I closed the door behind and followed. I then realised there was blood dripping from his hand and when ...  Read the complete review