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APPENDIX 24 - Invite to appeal hearing.docx

Disclosure Ref 2025129 - Admissions involving the insertion of objects.pdf

FOI disclosure ref 2025129 relating to hospital admissions involving the insertion of objects into the anus or vagina

Disclosure Ref 2025135 - Number of blood trests at Ripley Hospital.pdf

FOI Disclosure ref 2025135 regarding the total number of individual patient blood tests conducted by Ripley hospital per year for the 10-year period of 2015 to 2024

Happy Healthy Tooth Club info doc.pdf

Healthy Happy Clean Teeth Club, Oral Health Promotion

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.

Standard Operating Procedure for Waiting List Validation (S108)

The purpose of this SOP is to set out the waiting list validation stages and process for staff and managers with services that have waiting lists. Across Planned Care and Specialist Services (PCSS) there are patients on waiting lists. To support the management of these waiting lists it is important to regularly validate those patients who are waiting to be offered an appointment. Services with waiting lists should consider the appropriateness and frequency of undertaking the three stages of waiting list validation, these being: technical, administrative, and clinical.

Clinical Harms Review Additional detail for Service Level SOP (S133)

This document should be read in conjunction with the overarching DCHS Standard Operating procedure on Clinical Harms which outlines the processes to be followed to deliver a consistent approach to. • Risk stratification to minimise clinical harm as a result of delays in care. • Embedding systems which take into account health inequalities. • Monitoring waiting times against defined thresholds across pathways of care. • Delivering personalised, patient-centred communications to patients who are waiting for care. • Implementing Harm Reviews that support the Trusts governance and assurance processes and maintains practice in line with national expectations. The intention of the service level document is to provide specific detail on. • The risk stratification process in operation and clinically appropriate to specific service lines and patient cohorts • Waiting time thresholds for the relevant patient pathways

S146 - Infant Feeding Specialists SOP

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) gives an overview of the service provided by Infant Feeding Specialists (IFS). It also supports a commitment to ensure evidence-based tools and training are embedded within practice, supporting the local commissioning for outcomes recommendations, and offering assurance that the service is focused on personalised and needs based care. This Standard Operating Procedure should be used in conjunction with other DCHS Childrens and DCHS Trust policies along with UNICEF Baby Friendly standards.