Pages
Flu – make your informed CHOICE
All the information about this year's flu vaccination programme, Covid booster jabs and winter wellbeing found here!
Black History Month - Reclaiming Narratives
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/black-history-month-reclaiming-narratives
Interpreting & translation
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/interpreting-translation
The DCHS Admin People’s Charter 2024
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/dchs-admin-peoples-charter-2024
Bridging the healthcare access gap for people with disabilities
A NEW initiative to encourage more healthcare and/or non-clinical staff to take up sign language as an extra language and skill, is now available locally.
National Inclusion week 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/national-inclusion-week-2025
Files
A1 - Grading Scale According to Actual Harm (P80)
Grading Scale According to Actual Harm
Disclosure Ref 2025144 - Food poisoning due to the use of wild food.pdf
Disclosure Ref 2025144 regarding food poisoning cases due to incorrect identification or inappropriate preparation of wild food
Data and Key Performance Indicators A15 (G320)
Data and Key Performance Indicators
Disclosure Ref 2025168 - Complaints relating to maternity pain relief and ethnicity data.pdf
Freedom of Information disclosure ref 2025168 regarding complaints relating to maternity pain relief and ethnicity data
Appendix 12 – Work Experience Placement Return to Practice Information Sheet.docx
Appendix 12 – Work Experience Placement Return to Practice Information Sheet
Disclosure Ref 2024254 - SHO doctor shifts .pdf
Freedom of Information disclosure relating to the number of SHO doctors shifts covered by physician associates at the Trust between December 2023 - May 2024.
Carers Passport - Managers Tool
Carers Passport - Managers Tool
1237 - Approval form for Heart Failure Nurse who is not a prescriber to alter medication doses
1237 - Approval form for Heart Failure Nurse who is not a prescriber to alter medication doses
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
Clinical Decision Making Toolkit (G73)
As practitioners, we are tasked with making clinical decisions with patients and clients many times during their health and care journey. Clinical decision making involves a balanced understanding of the person, your experience, awareness, knowledge and information gathering, using appropriate assessment tools, your colleagues and evidence-based best practice to guide you. It is about “joining the dots” to make an informed decision.