Our aim is to ensure the well-being of all Armed Forces Personnel. We provide practical and emotional support to military personnel, their registered dependents and entitled civilians, in operational and non-operational areas.
Our welfare service provided by qualified Welfare Officers who are primarily located in Ministry of Defence Hospital Units (MDHUs) in the UK, including Northern Ireland, Cyprus and in Designated German Provider Hospitals (DGPs). Welfare Officers are also deployed in operational areas.
We work in conjuntion with Defence Medical Services (DMS) and in partnership with patients, families, hospital staff and Ministry of Defence.
DMWS Recruiting now for Welfare Officers
Countess Mountbatten
My Mother Edwina chaired Service Hospitals Welfare, the organisation that preceded DMWS and between 1980 and 1991 I chaired the joint committee from which DMWS emerged as a separate organisation.
DMWS has it origins in the Second World War. It continues to
provide its services both in peacetime and war to members of
the Armed Forces and their dependant relatives in hospitals worldwide
operating under contract with the Ministry of Defence. I
commend the Defence Medical Welfare Service to you and hope
that you find the content of this website informative and helpful..
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