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Disclosure Ref 2024166 - Patient in-take registration forms used by Your Sexual Health Matters.pdf

Freedom of Information disclosure reference 2024166 relating to patient in-take registration forms used by Your Sexual Health Matters

Disclosure Ref 2025195 - Number of cancer patient referrals .pdf

Freedom of Information disclosure reference 2025/195 relating to the total number of patients recorded on the urgent referral cancer treatment pathway and the number of these whose waiting time was stopped due to an enabling treatment, as defined in the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Dataset Guidance

Final Standard Operating Procedure Safe Staffing Levels and Annual Leave management ISHS October 2025

Disclosure Ref 2024228 - Cost of specialist bariatric equipment.pdf

Freedom of information disclosure relating to spend on specialist bariatric equipment for obese/bariatric patients (patients over 160kg) during the last three financial years and a breakdown of the type of equipment used by the trust and the amounts spent, split between Rental expenditure and Purchased Equipment

Disclosure Ref 2024284 - Medication chain disruptions & incidents.pdf

Freedom of information disclosure relating to medication chain disruptions & incidents due to this

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.

DCHS Safeguarding Supervision Policy (P15)

Safeguarding supervision is recognised by DCHS FT as an important element within clinical supervision and the safety culture. In addition to an individual’s knowledge, skills, experience and training, effective safeguarding practice relies on a professional’s curiosity and vigilance. Safeguarding supervision provides an opportunity to both sustain and foster these qualities and ensure staff are updated on current safeguarding issues, legislation and outcomes of recent Child Practice Reviews (CPR), Serious Incident Learning Reviews (SILR), Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHR), and Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SAR). This policy covers both Adult and Children