DMWS currently operates across the UK and Cyprus. Welfare officers and DMWS staff are located within NHS Trusts in hospitals and communities. DMWS provide welfare support to serving personnel, veterans, NHS & frontline staff, Merchant Navy & their immediate family.
We also provide a UK wide telephone welfare support service via the DMWS Emergency Response Service.
| Area | Location | NHS Trust |
| Andover, Basingstoke & Winchester, Hampshire | Andover War Memorial Hospital, Andover/ Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke/
Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester |
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Cambridge | Addenbrooke’s Hospital | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Devon (Exeter) | Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Exeter | Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust |
| Dorset (Bournemouth & Dorchester) | Royal Bournemouth Hospital/
Dorset County Hospital |
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust/
Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust |
| Fife | Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy/
Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline |
NHS Fife |
| Herefordshire | Hereford County Hospital/Ross on Wye Cottage Hospital/Bromyard Cottage Hospital/Leominster Cottage Hospital/Ledbury Cottage Hospital | Wye Valley NHS Trust |
| North Lanarkshire | University Hospital Wishaw | NHS Lanarkshire |
| Nottingham | Queen’s Medical Centre/Nottingham City Hospital | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Oxford | John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Plymouth (Derriford) | Derriford Hospital, Plymouth | University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust |
| Portsmouth | Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth | Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust |
| RCDM Birmingham | Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham | University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust |
| Salisbury, Wiltshire | Salisbury District Hospital | Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust |
| Scottish Borders | Borders General Hospital, Melrose | NHS Borders |
| Somerset (Taunton) | Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton | Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust |
| Southampton | Southampton General Hospital | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust |
| Surrey (Frimley) | Frimley Park Hospital, Frimley | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Swindon | The Great Western Hospital, Swindon | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Vale of Leven | Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria | NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde |
| Project Name | Location | Funder |
| DMWS Emergency Response Service & free phone UK wide (0800 999 3697) | UK wide | |
| MOD Contract | Various locations
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| RBL Recovery Centre | Battleback Centre, Lilleshall
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| NHS Scotland
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Fife and Lanarkshire | |
| ABF South of England (Serving personnel/Families and Veterans/ Families).
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South of England | |
| Cambridge NHS/Evelyn Trust – Medical Welfare Voluntary Services Coordinator | Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge
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| Aged Veterans + Other Frailty patients: Project in Herefordshire | Project in Herefordshire | Eveson Trust
Bulmers Masonic Charitable Foundation
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| Removing Barriers to Family Life | Hereford
Somerset (Taunton)
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The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust |
| Armed Forces Community: Project in Birmingham | Birmingham | The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust |
| Veterans Should Not Be Forgotten | Lanarkshire & Fife/Glasgow & Edinburgh
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| Aged Veterans
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Scottish Borders | |
| Armed Forces Community + frail or frequent attenders
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Nottingham | Boots
Veterans’ Foundation
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| Armed Forces Community | Vale of Leven, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland
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| Positive Pathways – Scotland and England | Scotland and England | Armed Forces Covenant Trust Fund |
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