Foundation trust

The trust aims to build a meaningful and effective representative membership within all its localities and services (constituency areas) in order to provide a solid link with the communities it serves.

Basically membership is our link to local people and their link to us. It is another way of voicing the local community’s thoughts and feelings about the trust.

We always talk about being responsive to needs when developing services and membership is another way to achieve this. Many of our members want to be involved and have some really valid views to contribute to our plans for the future.

Members are recruited from patients, carers, trust staff and people living locally who care about health services provided by the trust in their area.

An effective representative membership is key to the foundation trust’s success and its significance is often missed or underestimated.

Membership is not about recruiting as many people as possible but is more about taking the opportunity as it arises, going along to trust and community events, talking to patients and carers and other local people and telling them about the services we provide in their area and what our plans are for the future and about us finding out what local people really think about the trust and giving them the opportunity to share their experiences to help us improve service delivery and design.

For more information please see our membership privacy notice.

If you have any questions about foundation trust membership or the council of governors please contact the foundation trust office at rdash.ftmembershipoffice@nhs.net.

Benefits of membership

Membership is free and available to anyone aged 16 or above. Join today and receive the following benefits:

• become part of a growing group of people who care about the community they live in
• receive personal invitations to membership meetings or trust events
• have the opportunity to share your views in surveys and questionnaires exclusive to members
• receive loads of offers and discounts through NHS Discounts only available to members and NHS staff
• receive free representation from a governor
• receive a regular newsletter electronically
• you can have a say in how we run the trust and how we help your local communities through the services we provide
• you can stand for election to the council of governors and speak up on behalf of other local people
• the chance to vote in elections to the council of governors
• access to a designated members section and members freephone number

Constitution

As a foundation trust our rules are contained in the Constitution of Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust.

Page last reviewed: February 20, 2026
Next review due: February 20, 2027