Dorset Community Health Services
Introduction
Dorset Community Health Services (DCHS) is the provider arm for NHS Dorset. We serve a population of approximately 407,000 employing around 2,500 whole time equivalent staff and managing a budget of almost £75 m.
Our service portfolio includes:
- Community services including, operating out of GP practices, health centres and eleven community hospitals providing over 300 beds across Dorset
- Older peoples’ mental health
- Community Adult mental health services including acute care
- Drug and Alcohol Services
- Offender healthcare services for the Dorset Prison
- Partnership services such as Condition Management programme
- Support services including Estates, IT, Finance and HR
Our vision is to provide high quality local health services to people across Dorset. The Service Management Team in DCHS is directly accountable to the Chief Executive (and ultimately the NHS Dorset Trust Board) for the delivery of these services.
For more information about DCHS services, please refer to the document below which provides detailed information about DCHS.