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Annual Member's Meeting (AMM) 2025
AMM (Annual Members Meeting) for DCHS November 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/council-governors/become-member/annual-members-meeting
Vote for your favourite photo!
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/vote-your-favourite-photo
Records management
Clinical, staff and corporate records management at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/information-governance/records-management
Public invited to online NHS health meeting
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/public-invited-online-nhs-health-meeting
Five-star salon experience for Ilkeston patients
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/five-star-salon-experience-ilkeston-patients
Derbyshire Community Health Services welcomes international nurses
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-community-health-services-welcomes-international-nurses
Derbyshire NHS helping new parents with baby feeding campaign
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-nhs-helping-new-parents-baby-feeding-campaign
Files
SOP For use of HoverMatt and HoverJack for lateral transfers by community staff (S78)
This standard operating procedure sets out the process by which clinicians working within Community Services access and use the HoverMatt & HoverJack for lateral transfer of patients in a community setting.
Patient Experience Team leaflet
Patient experience team leaflet, includes information on how to make a complaint and where patients/carers can access support. Updated 2022
Standard Operating Procedure for Waiting List Validation (S108)
The purpose of this SOP is to set out the waiting list validation stages and process for staff and managers with services that have waiting lists. Across Planned Care and Specialist Services (PCSS) there are patients on waiting lists. To support the management of these waiting lists it is important to regularly validate those patients who are waiting to be offered an appointment. Services with waiting lists should consider the appropriateness and frequency of undertaking the three stages of waiting list validation, these being: technical, administrative, and clinical.
Cough Assist (Mechanical Insufflation and Exsufflation)
Cough Assist (Mechanical Insufflation and Exsufflation
Appendix 1 - Patient Video Consultation Connection (S82)
Patient Video Consultation Connection
APPENDIX 6 - Disciplinary Investigation - Terms of Reference.docx
HRP24 Appendix 6 - Disciplinary Investigation – Terms of Reference
Cancellation of Clinic Standard Operating Procedure (S153)
Cancellation of Clinic Standard Operating Procedure
Word Mediation Referral Forms - DCHS.docx
Mediation Referral Form - DCHS
Sudbury Prison Patients referred to DCHS Outpatient Therapy, MSK & Podiatry Services (S69)
When patients from Sudbury Prison are referred from secondary care to Out Patient therapy, MSK or Podiatry, for example post-operative patients, they occasionally require a chaperone. Sudbury prison is a category D prison. Some prisoners will need one officer to accompany them whilst on probation. Prisoners may be able to attend appointments alone in line with prison risk assessment. Prisoners requiring two officers should not be seen in the department as advised by Head of Security at Sudbury Prison
Administration of Insulin Injection Policy and Standard Operating Procedure (P4)
There are a growing number of people who, because of disability, increasing age or infirmity, are unable to administer their own insulin and will need support. This guideline aims to promote standardisation and safety of insulin administration within Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS NHS FT). This document aligns with the Professional Guidance on the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings (Royal Pharmaceutical Society 2019). Patient centred care based upon different ways of working underpins this policy and procedure as identified within the NHS Plan (DH 2000), the NSF for Older People (DH 2001), Making a Difference (DH 2001) and the NSF for Diabetes (DH 2002). UK Injection technique Recommendations have been considered alongside the need to consider safer sharps for staff (Forum for Injection Technique 2016). Underpinning the guidance are the most recent NICE and Derbyshire guidance for the management of diabetes (Joint Area Prescribing Committee 2018 NICE 2015) and National Patient Safety Alert (NPSA), ‘Risk of severe harm and death due to withdrawing insulin from pen devices,’ 16 November 2016.