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Diabetes Education Service

Understanding your Type 2 diabetes is important so you can learn how to control it and have the best quality of life possible.

Tier 3 Weight Management Service Derbyshire

The Tier 3 Weight Management Service offers a weight management programme to support adults with severe and complex obesity to lose weight across Derby City and Derbyshire County.

Seeking urgent clinical treatment - guidance on NHS 111 and urgent treatment centres

A guide on how to access the help you need for new onset illnesses or injuries for which you are seeking urgent help or advice.

DCHS payroll provider is changing!

From 1 April 2022 we're moving from our current payroll provider Shared Business Services (SBS) to a new payroll provider University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS FT (UHDB).

Wound Clinic Service

Our wound clinic service was established in 2019 to provide a 7-day per week wound care service for the people of Derbyshire.

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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

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Guidelines for Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment - Adapted Waterlow Score (G89)

The purpose of this Standard Operation Procedure is to set out the process to be followed to ensure a consistent approach is followed for the assessment of patient’s risks of developing pressure ulcers.

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Electronic Clinical Record Keeping Guidelines (G333)

All record keeping, using whatever medium should take account of the need to maintain communication between the multi-professional health care team providing care/treatment for the patient/client. All staff should ensure the correct record is opening by checking three patient identifiers: • The patients name; • Date of birth • And, NHS number/unique patient ID prior to opening the electronic record The following applies to electronic record keeping: The principle of confidentiality is equally important when electronic clinical records are being used, including those sent by email, and should comply with the Trust’s code of confidentiality, e-mail policy and information governance policy. Registered clinical staff are professionally responsible for making sure that whatever system they use it is fully secured and managed in such a way that confidentiality is maintained.

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SOP Titration of Heart Failure Medication by Designated Nurses (S8)

This procedure has been developed to support trained designated nurses to alter the dosage of cornerstone therapies and loop diuretics for this specific group of patients

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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.

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DCHS_Supervision online record system User Guide V2

DCHS Clinical supervision (reflection on practice) online system guide; includes information on how to access the site, navigate, and record supervision sessions.

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RipleyButterleyWardMovingBack Press Release FINAL11.3.22

Ripley Butterley Ward Moving Back Press Release - plans have been announced to bring Butterley Ward back to Ripley Hospital from its temporary base at Ilkeston Community Hospital after Easter, during the final week of April.

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1 year review Guidelines – 0-19 Children’s Services (G208)

This Best Practice Guideline give clear guidance on the minimum standard expected of Specialist Community Public Health Nurses (Health Visitors) when delivering a 1-year review. It outlines the goal and essential components of the 1-year review offered to all families in Derbyshire when their baby is 9-12 months old. This document also supports a commitment to ensure evidence-based tools and training are embedded within practice, supporting the national commissioning for outcomes recommendations, and offering assurance that the service is focused on personalised and needs based care.

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Online record access tasks.pdf

What to do if a patient is downloading the Airmid App and cannot view their records

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Standard Operating Procedure for Stay Steady Strength And Balance Programme (S102)

To outline the clinical and quality standards of DCHS strength and balance improvement programmes for secondary falls prevention (known as Stay Steady Strength and Balance). In addition, the SOP will provide an audit framework for the continual improvement of programmes being delivered.