NHS diagnostic waits · Dorset · Bone density scan
Bone density scan (DEXA) waiting time at Dorset County Hospital
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NHS DM01 data, August 2026
Where it’s done at Dorset County Hospital
Bone density scan is done in the imaging department at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. To be seen you usually need a referral: most people are referred by their GP, and some by a hospital specialist. Once referred, the appointment comes by letter, text or the NHS App.
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1Free on the NHS
Stay on the NHS for your scan
Wait the NHS scan queue. 4 weeks typical wait here.
2Free on the NHS
Switch to a faster NHS hospital for your scan
When your GP refers you for your bone density scan, Right to Choose lets you ask to go to a faster NHS hospital.
3Part paid
Private scan, keep your NHS place
Pay for the scan privately, then rejoin the NHS for treatment.
4Self funded or insured
Go fully private
The scan and any follow-up, all private.
More about Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
How deep the queue is now
Share of the current bone density scan queue at this trust by whether they have passed six weeks, August 2026. The NHS standard is that fewer than 1% wait over six weeks.
NHS hospitals near Dorset
Dorset County Hospital (current)
0 mi
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
21 mi
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire
37 mi
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · New Forest
43 mi
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of
52 mi
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Swindon
65 mi
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Basingstoke and Deane
70 mi
Median bone density scan wait so far in the current queue, August 2026, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.
How we know this
NHS DM01 diagnostics data, August 2026.
The whole trust (Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust), a current-queue snapshot, not a prediction.
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