Pages
Interpreting & translation
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/interpreting-translation
Patient Safety
Patient Safety is the freedom from harm in healthcare and is a process by which an organisation makes patient care safer.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-heart-our-care/patient-safety
Accessible information standards
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/accessible-information
Information about your appointment
Everything you need to know before you attend a physiotherapy appointment at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT
Derbyshire health and care system remains under pressure; patients continue to be asked to not store up care needs
Update as of 17:00hrs - 22 December 2022
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
Files
Disclosure Ref 202533 - Use or perform Viscosupplementation injections.pdf
Disclosure to freedom of information request regarding use or perform Viscosupplementation injections
Disclosure Ref 202571 - Eating disorder services.pdf
Freedom of information final disclosure reference 202571 - Eating disorder services
Disclosure Ref 2025162 - Parathyroidectomies .pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2025162 relating to number of Parathyroidectomies were undertaken in 2023
Disclosure Ref 2025140 - Patient Engagement Portal.pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2025140 regarding Patient Engagement Portal (also known as a Patient Portal)
Disclosure Ref 2025197 - Patients admitted to A&E for treatment as a result of cycling and pothole injuries.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure reference 2025197 relating to patients admitted to A&E for treatment as a result of cycling and pothole injuries
Disclosure Ref 2025236 - NHS referral policy for the use of children in state education.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to commissioned services within the Trust which have referral policies/criteria which restrict them for the use of pupils in state education
Disclosure Ref 2025265 - Employees who took shared parental;, paternity and maternity leave 2020 to 2025.docx
Freedom of information disclosure relating to employees who took shared parental, paternity and maternity leave 2020 to 2025
Derbyshire_Community_Health_Services_NHS_Trust_authorisation_letter.pdf
DCHS authorisation letter
HRP40 Working Time Regulations.docx
DCHS WORKING TIME REGULATIONS POLICY
0112 - Personal Handling Risk Assessment - Complex Patients Only
0112 - Personal Handling Risk Assessment - Complex Patients Only