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LGBTQIA+ Staff Network
Find out how to join the LGBTQ+ staff network, support our work through meetings, wearing the rainbow pin badge or rainbow lanyard and more you can do as an LGBTQ+ ally.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/staff-networks/lgbt-staff-network-group
National Inclusion week 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/national-inclusion-week-2025
Cardiac rehabilitation services
https://dchs.nhs.uk/our-services-and-locations/a-z-list-of-services/cardiac-rehabilitation-services
Files
Disclosure Ref 2025210 - Communicating with patients and the costs associated with this.doc
Freedom of Information disclosure relating to the costs associated with communicating with patients for example, postage for letters, SMS messages
Register_of_Board_Declarations_2020.21_v2.pdf
Declarations of interests - Board
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Policy (P11)
The purpose of this policy is to provide evidence based guidance on the use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), which is an advanced wound care treatment for patients with complex wounds. Clinicians working within Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Trust should refer to this Policy for; • Recommended best practice guidance for managing a patient with NPWT. • Recommendations to reduce potential risk and harm to patients receiving NPWT. • The role of the Registered Healthcare Professional will be defined in this guideline, outlining their responsibility and accountability for the patient receiving NPWT
1059 - Anticipatory EOL Prescription Sheet Palliative Care
1059 Palliative Care ‘Just in Case’ Anticipatory Prescription Information Sheet Patients aged 18 years & older
0106 - Samples Fridge Temperature Monitoring Form (P69)
0106 - Samples Fridge Temperature Monitoring Form (P69)
L151 - UTC Advice leaflet - 5th Metatarsal Fracture
L151 - UTC Advice leaflet - 5th Metatarsal Fracture
Learning from Death’s Policy (P72)
This policy confirms the process to ensure a multi-disciplinary, consistent and coordinated approach for the review of deaths that occur in all DCHS in-patient and community team caseloads. The aim of the learning from deaths process is to identify any areas of practice both specific to the individual case and beyond that could potentially be improved, based upon peer group review. Areas of good practice are also identified and supported. To describe in detail the three-stage mortality review process within the Trust, detailing how reviews should be completed, by whom and when to ensure that learning from deaths is made a Trust priority and leads to developments and improvements in patient care.
FINAL Staff survey update division 26 November 2021.jpg
Final response rate infographic
Managers Informal Conversation Guide (DCHS) V2_.pdf
Managers Informal Conversation Guide Mandatory staff Covid-19 vaccinations (DCHS) V2 (with updated links)
Communications Annex V7.pdf
How to communicate with Patients using the communication annexe on SystmOne