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Health Psychology
The DCHS health psychology service provides specialist psychological care and support to adults with physical health problems.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/our-services-and-locations/a-z-list-of-services/health-psychology
Industrial Action Update - Issued on 16 January 2023
Ahead of this week’s planned industrial action by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), we’ve developed an in-depth briefing which we hope colleagues will find useful. It also signposts to other helpful sources of information.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/industrial-action-update-16-january
Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
Patient Group Directions - PGDs provide a legal framework that allows some registered health professionals to supply and/or administer a specified medicine(s) to a pre-defined group of patients, without them having to see a prescriber.
Pension Automatic Re-Enrolment - July 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/pension-automatic-re-enrolment-july-2025
Top tips for saving on energy bills
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/top-tips-saving-energy-bills
Files
Disclosure Ref 2025284 - Care to individuals aged 0-25 who may use home enteral feeding tubes.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to SLT, physio and OT support to patients using home enteral feeding tubes
Disclosure Ref 2025330 - Paediatric Commuity & elective list data from September 2021 to June 2025.docx
Freedom of information request relating to paediatric elective and community service waiting list data (under 18s) from Sept 2021–June 2025, broken down by ethnicity and deprivation
TPP116 GULP Dehydration risk screening tool
TPP116 GULP Dehydration Risk Screening Tool for In-Patients
L174 - A Guide to Safer Sex - Men who have Sex with Men (MSM)
L174 - A Guide to Safer Sex - Men who have Sex with Men (MSM). Patient information leaflet.
Derbyshire Symptom Management Guidance for last days of life (G2)
G2 - Derbyshire Symptom Management Guidance for last days of life
Community Nursing Case Load Management Tool Kit (G60)
Community Nursing Case Load Management Tool Kit
How to assign to a Team.pdf
S1 Teams - How to assign a Team
Appendix 6A – Royal College of Physicians ‘How to measure lying and standing blood pressure as part of a falls assessment (P33)
Royal College of Physicians ‘How to measure lying and standing blood pressure as part of a falls assessment (P33)
L295 - The Walton Unit - Information About Your Discharge From Hospital
Patient Leaflet for those being discharged from the Walton Unit.
Protocol for the Administration of Lidocaine 10mg per ml Spray to Facilitate IUC Insertion or Removal
PGD Protocol for the Administration of Lidocaine 10mg per ml Spray to Facilitate IUC Insertion or Removal