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Disclosure Ref 2025146 - grievances submitted .pdf

FOI Disclosure Ref 2025146 regarding grievances submitted by midwives 01/01/12023 up to 15/04/2025

Appendix 5 - Guidelines for DBS Check Levels with respect to Work Experience Placement Return to Practice.docx

Appendix 5 - Guidelines for DBS Check Levels with respect to Work Experience Placement Return to Practice

Disclosure Ref 2025174 HSCN Connectivity & Network Services .pdf

Freedom of Information disclosure ref 2025174 relating to lists the key suppliers, contract values, frameworks used, and responsible contacts for the Trust’s main network services.

£25K Spend - October 2025

Data Protection Legislation incl GDPR Policy.docx

This policy sets out the standards that DCHS and its staff are required to meet in order to comply with Data Protection Legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulations (UK GDPR).

Searching Patients and their Belongings Policy (P65)

The aim of this policy is to ensure that appropriate actions and control measures are in place for staff undertaking searches across DCHS, to maintain a consistent approach and to provide clinicians with guidance on the searching of patients and their belongings as recommended by the Mental Health Act 1983 code of practice 2015 and NICE guidance NG10. This will ensure that the safety of staff and the privacy of patients remains protected at all times.

Smile4Life enquiry form.pdf

Smile4Life enquiry form, oral health early years supervised toothbrushing programme

North Derbyshire OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy) Pathway for Primary Care (Step-Up Pathway/Admission Avoidance) (G198)

OPAT services provide intravenous (IV) antibiotics to patients outside of the acute hospital inpatient setting. Patients who are otherwise medically fit, and who would otherwise require a hospital bed, can avoid admission to hospital, or be discharged sooner by receiving treatment either as an outpatient or within their own homes. In North Derbyshire, this is achieved by Chesterfield Royal Hospital Foundation Trust (CRHFT) working in partnership with Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) Rapid Response Team (RRT).

Dysphagia Management of Adults (P20)

DCHS recognises the risk to people who have difficulty with eating, drinking and swallowing and that the management of dysphagia is everyone’s business. This policy promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and managing dysphagia. It is to ensure that all people with dysphagia receive the highest possible level of assessment, care and support to achieve maximum independence, pleasure and meet their nutritional needs, whilst keeping the risks associated with this potentially life threatening condition to a minimum.

Adult Enteral Feeding Policy (P48)

The purpose of the policy is to provide best practice guidance for the care of adults fed via with an enteral feeding tube. The aim of the policy is to ensure delivery of safe and effective care for patients who are enterally tube fed within Derbyshire Community Health Services: • Community Hospitals, • Community Services • Care Homes And to ensure continuity of care within Derbyshire Community Health Service Foundation Trust.