 Proposals to transfer the pathology department to a private provider were rejected in October 2014 after 11000 people signed a petition protesting against the plan.The Trust's clinical services are organised into four directorates and provide the following services centralised on the Dorset County Hospital Site.The hospital is also recognised as a cancer unit for the provision of services for patients with gynaecological, breast, colorectal, urological, upper gastrointestinal, lung and haematological malignancies.