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Appendix 6 – Confirmation Letter for Work Experience/Placement/Return to Practice Agreement .docx

Appendix 6 – Confirmation Letter for Work Experience/Placement/Return to Practice Agreement

October 2025 Newsletter - Issue 46.pdf

Medicines Newsletter

£25K Spend - October 2025

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.

Witness Destruction of Controlled Drugs (S34)

This Procedure is to formally record the process to be undertaken in order for the Trust Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs to authorise named people to witness the destruction of stock controlled drugs.

Non-Medical Prescribing Policy (P57)

This policy has been developed to support local implementation of non-medical prescribing in Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) to ensure all qualified Non-medical Prescribers (NMPs) and their managers are aware of their accountability and responsibility in relation to prescribing

STAY conversations

DCHS STAY conversations - managers guide. This is a management tool, not a formal process, aimed at supporting staff retention.

Use of Clamshell Vaccine Bags by Community Nursing Teams (S99)

DCHS staff support the annual Influenza vaccination campaign and other vaccination programs by vaccinating some patients on behalf of GP practices. Vaccines are stocked in the GP practices and administered in the patients’ own homes (including care homes), which means they need to be transported between locations. DCHS staff have been provided with Clamshell Vaccine Bags for this purpose. This Standard Operating Procedure provides information to DCHS staff on the use of Clamshell Vaccine Bags.