The Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

 Trust, DaSH, is a Mental Healthcare Trust

NHS Mental Health Services Trust

An NHS Mental Health Trust provides health and social care services for people with mental health problems in England. They are one kind of NHS trust, the regional organisations that together form the National Health Service....

 serving over 850 000 inhabitants of Doncaster

Doncaster

Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"...

, Rotherham

Rotherham

Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, at its confluence with the River Rother, between Sheffield and Doncaster. Rotherham, at from Sheffield City Centre, is surrounded by several smaller settlements, which together form the wider Metropolitan Borough of...

 and parts of South Humber

North Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire is a unitary authority area in the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. For ceremonial purposes it is part of Lincolnshire....

. Its headquarters are situated at St Catherine's Hospital

St Catherine's Hospital

St Catherine's Hospital is a mental healthcare hospital located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, approximately 3 miles from its centre.There are 23 beds for inpatients in the hospital ward with Specialist Education and Day Centres...

 in Doncaster. It provides mental healthcare as well as contracted work for Primary Care Trusts in South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England. It has a population of 1.29 million. It consists of four metropolitan boroughs: Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and City of Sheffield...

 such as training and IT

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

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DaSH was created in October 1999 following the merger of Doncaster Healthcare NHS Trust and Scunthorpe Community Health Care NHS Trust. In April 2002 the Trust took on responsibility for the delivery of mental health services in Rotherham after Rotherham Priority Health Services NHS Trust was dissolved. The Trust underwent restructuring in June 2005 following the transfer of adult and older people’s mental health services in North and North East Lincolnshire to Primary Care Trust guardianship.

Dash's mainbase is St Catherine's Hospital

St Catherine's Hospital

St Catherine's Hospital is a mental healthcare hospital located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, approximately 3 miles from its centre.There are 23 beds for inpatients in the hospital ward with Specialist Education and Day Centres...

, Tickhill Road Hospital as well as the now defunct Loversall Hospital. The Trust's annual budget is £83 million and employs around 2590 members of staff. It also operates at Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Doncaster Royal Infirmary

Doncaster Royal Infirmary is a district general hospital of 800 beds, located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Each year the hospital treats around 150,000 patients along with 95,500 A&E patients .Doncaster Royal Infirmary started life as the Doncaster Dispensary on French Gate in 1792...

, Rotherham General Hospital and Doncaster Gate Hospital.