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A7 - Revision History (P10)

A2 - Stop And Watch

Disclosure Ref 2024145 - Elective operations and cancellations January 2023 to 31 December 2023 .pdf

Appendix 13 – Supervisors Report Work Experience Placement Return to Practice.docx

Appendix 13 Supervisors Report Work Experience Placement Return to Practice

Incident Reporting Policy (P80)

Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of patients, staff, visitors, and contractors alike. DCHS aspires to provide a Zero Harm environment. The policy considers the recommendations of the Department of Health publications: An Organisation with a Memory, Building a Safer NHS, Doing less Harm and the former National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) publication Building a memory: preventing harm, reducing risks and improving patient safety, Berwick report 2013 and the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and subsequent subsidiary reports. The reporting, management and investigation of adverse incidents are fundamental elements of risk management. Sharing the learning from adverse incidents (including near misses) enables the organisation to implement changes to practice, processes, and systems so that the risk of harm is reduced. In addition to the human costs, if incidents are not properly managed, they may result in a loss of public confidence in the organisation and a loss of assets.

Long Term Segregation Policy (P86)

This policy aims to provide clear guidance on the use of long term segregation, (please note the use of seclusion is covered in DCHS trust policy – (Management, Prevention and reduction of violence and aggression including physical restraint and seclusion). To ensure restrictive interventions remain proportionate, least restrictive, take account of patient preference where possible, and last for no longer than is necessary. The policy sets clinical standards to ensure compliance with the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent Code of Practice 2015 alongside NICE guidance NG10. To ensure robust governance arrangements that are transparent in their nature. To support the trusts ambition of reducing the use of restrictive practices. The policy aims to ensure the specific needs of all patients are met in a fair and equitable way.

FINAL Chief Executive Designate - Stakeholder Briefing - 11 November 2021.pdf

Dr Chris Clayton appointment; Chief Executive JUCD

Standard Operating Procedure for the Issue of Procaine Penicillin outside of ISHS services (S83)

This SOP sets out the actions which should be taken to facilitate the administration of the procaine penicillin outside of ISHS opening hours.

Development, Approval, Implementation and Review of Patient Group Directions (PGDS) Policy (P5)

The purpose of this policy is to set out a generic framework for a co-ordinated approach to the development and control of PGDs in use in Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) Trust. The policy contains a standard template for all locally developed PGDs. Using the framework and template should ensure that PGDs comply with the legislation and are reviewed and updated every 3 years or in response to updated guidance, stock availability, safety alerts or best practice.

Guidelines for the use of bladder scanner in children`s services (G188)

To provide safe research based information in order to assess bladder function using ultrasound on children and young people under the age of 19 years.