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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.
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
Derbyshire NHS Trust’s annual public accountability meeting - Open to all online
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-nhs-trusts-annual-public-accountability-meeting-open-all-online
Freedom to speak up animations
We have developed a series of animations based on issues staff have raised a concern about in DCHS. We hope they help you make your decision about whether you should raise a concern.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/how-do-i/freedom-to-speak-up/freedom-speak-animations
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
Appendix 8 - TOMS - Dysphagia (G14)
Appendix 8 - TOMS - Dysphagia
Undertaking a trial without catheter in a community setting Guideline and protocol (G93)
A trial without catheter (TWOC) is an essential part of the community nurse role. This routine procedure supports patients to remain within their own homes to receive health care. The Royal Marsden Manual Online of Clinical Nursing Procedures (2018) offers nursing guidance for urinary catheter removal but does not provide guidance for staff on how to undertake a TWOC safely at home or in a community hospital. This Guideline and protocol aims to provide evidence based recommendations to enable a trial without catheter to be undertaken in a community hospital or patients own home by a qualified competent practitioner.
Standard Operating Procedures for The Community Respiratory Service (S88)
This document sets out the standards which, in the view of the patient and professional organisations involved, are required of services in order to deliver high quality respiratory service for people with chronic respiratory conditions including supporting routine follow-up for patients discharged from hospital by request of chest physician following an acute admission.
DCHS brand toolkit
DCHS Branding Guidelines and Toolkit 2021 - revised version with updated pantone ref for pink
Appendix 4 - Guide to the Implementation and Management of PGDs within DCHS Services (P5)
Appendix 4 - Guide to the Implementation and Management of PGDs within DCHS Services (P5)
Nephrostomy Care and Flushing
Nephrostomy Care and Flushing
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)
Mental Health Act 1983 - Section 5(2) Doctors 72 Hour Holding Power Policy and Procedure (P105)
This policy provides guidance on the use of Section 5(2), doctors holding power and should be followed by the relevant doctors and approved clinicians working in Trust in-patient areas.
Top tips for self-purchasing equipment (L329)
Top tips for self-purchasing equipment
1237 - Approval form for Heart Failure Nurse who is not a prescriber to alter medication doses
1237 - Approval form for Heart Failure Nurse who is not a prescriber to alter medication doses