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Wide range of support on offer from Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber
NHS Foundation Trust
Wide range of support on offer
A Doncaster based health trust may be one of the agencies you are put in touch with for the help and support you need to help you live as independently as possible.
Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust – known as RDaSH for short – provides a diverse range of services across Doncaster.
Its head office is based in Balby and services range from memory services, Older People’s Mental Health services, a variety of community services, to the hospice, based just off Weston Road. RDaSH has a range of community services to help Doncaster residents to live as independently as possible. These include specialist nurses, ranging from Hepatitis C, Diabetes, Parkinson’s Disease, Respiratory, Multiple Sclerosis and Epilepsy Nurses who you may be put in touch with for support if you have one of those conditions. RDaSH also runs the tissue viability and lymphoedema services in the borough. Other services run by RDaSH include the Doncaster Community Nursing Services, as well as the intermediate care services – which include rehabilitation services – and a specialist falls service, cardiac services and neuro services. Again, you will be put in touch with staff in these services if you need them. Our Community Nursing staff are easy to contact as they have one phone number 01302 566999. This number has been set up to receive requests for nursing services for patients who are not able to get to their GP surgery and for consultations that are deemed to be needed to be completed in the patient’s home. The service provides access to community nursing services clinical triage, clinical advice and also offers support for professionals wanting to refer patients to our Community Nursing services. It can also be used for self-referral for patients that are currently on the community nurses caseload and can be used by their families/carers. This service is accessible 24 hours, 365 days per year. Meanwhile, St John’s hospice provides day care for residents living with a life limiting condition, as well as an in-patients facility, for those who need care around the clock. Other support on offer includes care in patients’ homes and a day service. There is a Specialist Palliative Care Team on hand seven days a week. The hospice can be contacted for information by ringing the Specialist Palliative Care Team on 01302 566666 Monday to Friday between 8.30am and 6pm, while they can be contacted on Saturdays and Sundays between 8.30am and 4.30pm.
Photos courtesy of RDaSH communications
The Macmillan Cancer Information & Support Service aims to empower and support the people of Doncaster, by providing quality information and support about cancer to enable residents to make positive changes to their lives to help them live well. Staff can be contacted by emailing rdash.macmillan-info-doncaster@nhs.net or calling 01302 796853. The team can also be found in their ‘pod’ at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. RDaSH also offers mental health support for people aged over 18 and patients can contact the Trust on 01302 566999 to talk to them about their mental health needs. Alternatively anyone needing mental health support or advice can contact the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies team – either by calling 01302 565556 or residents can refer themselves to the service by visiting the website https://iapt.rdash.nhs.uk. Visitors can browse the full range of information and gain knowledge about the therapies on offer including the very latest computer based support programmes. However, if you or a loved one is experiencing a mental health crisis you should always ring RDaSH staff immediately on Freephone 0800 804 8999 where someone from the Crisis Team will be on hand to offer support. The Doncaster Older People’s Community Mental Health Services run by RDaSH offer a wide range of services based on the site in Balby. Here RDaSH provides assessment and treatment to older people aged 65 and over with mental health problems, and aged under 65 with a diagnosis of dementia. If you are a patient and need to contact RDaSH please note that the older people’s services work Monday to Friday, between the hours of 8.30am and 5pm. Outside of these hours please contact the Crisis Team on Freephone 0800 804 8999. The majority of our phone lines are manned 9am5pm Monday to Friday, other than our hospice Specialist Palliative Care Team and our Mental Health Crisis Team, as outlined above. The full range of services on offer by RDaSH can be accessed via this website: www.rdash.nhs.uk or call the health trust’s reception on 01302 796000. For those of you on social media, you can follow RDaSH on Twitter @rdash_nhs or on Facebook and Instagram by searching RDaSH NHS.
