Become a Trust member

Become a member

Our public membership is very important to the Trust. It allows us to have regular dialogue with our local communities, including people who use our services and their families and friends, local residents and people who have an interest in the services we provide. Through these conversations and relationships we can work together to improve the local NHS services we provide across Derbyshire and to ensure the Trust is responsive to the needs of our local communities.

Learn more about what is involved in becoming a Trust member.

Annual Members Meeting 2025 - save the date!

The Annual Members Meeting (AMM) for 2025  will take place on Thursday 2 October 2025. Further information will be shared with members and the public nearer the time. 

Reflecting on our 2024 Annual Members Meeting 

The Trust’s Annual Members Meeting (AMM) took place on Thursday 26 September at our Kingsway Hospital site in Derby. The focus this year was on the health of our children and young people and received really positive feedback.

Attendees particularly liked the overview of children services provided by the Trust. We see over 75,750 children, young people, parents and carers a year. We offer a range of complex health services for children and young people in Derby and southern Derbyshire as well as  Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).You can find out more about our children’s services on our website www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk under ‘Services’.

Attendees also liked hearing from representatives from the CAHMS Participation team which is made up of experts by experience (young people, with experience of using mental health services, and parents/carers, with experience of caring for a child or young person under the care of our CAMHS service). Their experiences, viewpoints and concerns are really important not only in helping to develop the service but also to provide support for parents/carers whose children/young people are either accessing services or are on the waiting list.   

During the meeting, directors and governors summarised key points of the Trust’s performance including:

• An increase in people accessing our services
• Development of a new Trust Strategy
• Progress on the Making Room for Dignity programme which includes the near completion of our new facilities in Derby and Chesterfield
• Delivering improvements to the quality of our services, in line with Care Quality Commission (CQC) recommendations.

The AMM also formally adopted the Trust’s Annual Report and Accounts, which can be viewed on the Trust’s www.derbyshirehealthcareft.nhs.uk under ‘About us’, ‘Who we are’, ‘Annual report’.

The meeting closed with the announcement of the winners from the Trust’s children and young peoples’ writing competition ‘What it’s like to be me’.  You can find out more about the winners by clicking here.

What does membership involve?

Should you decide to become a member, we will keep you up to date with news and developments from within the Trust through Connect, our membership magazine, which is produced twice a year and through Members News, our monthly e-newsletter.

We will also let you know about special events and activities taking place across Derbyshire and on occasions, we may send you surveys and questionnaires where you can share your views on particular issues. You will also become entitled to the NHS discounts scheme.

Helping us make a positive difference

Your involvement will help us to improve significantly the way we provide health services. The views of our service users, their carers, our local communities and our staff are very important to us so please sign up today free of charge to show your support for your local NHS by becoming a member of Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

You can decide your own level of involvement to suit your lifestyle but whatever choice you make, your input will help us to improve the way we provide health services. Members even have the opportunity to increase their involvement with the Trust by becoming a Trust governor.

For further information, please read our becoming a member of Derbyshire Healthcare leaflet.

Connect magazine