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Patient Group Directions (PGDs)
Patient Group Directions - PGDs provide a legal framework that allows some registered health professionals to supply and/or administer a specified medicine(s) to a pre-defined group of patients, without them having to see a prescriber.
Freedom to Speak Up (Raise a Concern)
FTSU at DCHS
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Disclosure Ref 2025348 - Equality, Diversity and Inclusion roles.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relation to the number of EDI staff, their total salary cost, the Trust’s EDI‑related spend over the past three financial years, and copies of any mandatory EDI training materials currently used.
Disclosure Ref 2025469 - System details for the Trust’s EPR, PAS, and any other clinical IT systems.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to the Trust’s EPR, PAS, and any other clinical IT systems—including system names, costs, contract details, implementation history, funding sources, and integrations—for each hospital in 2024.
Disclosure Ref 2025202 - Immigration Health Surcharge.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to the Trust’s policies and processes for identifying and charging overseas visitors for the Immigration Health Surcharge, including audits, invoicing procedures, debt collection, and related income data.
Disclosure Ref 2025354.docx
Freedom of information request relating to the year of purchase of every LINAC machine in operation
Example Policy (pdf)
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Information Governance Policy.docx
Information is a vital asset, both in terms of the clinical management of individual patients and the efficient management of services and resources. It plays a key part in clinical governance, service planning and performance management. This document sets out minimum policy standards across the community for confidentiality, integrity and availability of Information. The policy is intended to cover the overlapping areas of Data Protection Compliance, Information Security (BS ISO/IEC 27002:2005 standard), Data Quality and Confidentiality (with regards to ‘common law’).
Admission Discharge and Transfer Policy for DCHS OPMH and Neurodevelopmental inpatient Service (P84)
Derbyshire Community Health Services FT (DCHS) has both Learning disability (LD) and Older Peoples Mental Health (OPMH) specialist in-patient services located in the North of the county which provides services to meet acute clinical health care needs. The OPMH service covers North Derbyshire; the LD service is the bedded provision for the County of Derbyshire. The policy sets clinical standards to improve the admission of appropriate patients. The policy encompasses the whole patient pathway including the Admission, Discharge and Transfer processes of these services.
SOP for the supply or issue of Steroid Emergency Cards (S87)
Identify / supply to patients who require a Steroid Emergency card in the Community Hospitals setting, Urgent Treatment Centres, Podiatric Surgery, Integrated Community teams and specialist services such as Respiratory teams and Physiotherapy if a new Steroid Emergency card is needed or a Steroid Emergency Card has been lost
Identification and Treatment of Different Types of Moisture Lesions (G179)
A moisture lesion is most commonly associated with either incontinence or sweating between skin folds. If left untreated then skin is more at risk of pressure ulcer development. It is important to establish the cause of the moisture lesion in order to treat it correctly.
A5 - Witness Destruction of Controlled Drugs (S47)
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.