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Diabetes Education Service
If you have type 2 diabetes, attending an education programme is an important part of your treatment plan.
A BIG conversation is about to begin… and you’re invited.
Join a generational first big conversation to shape how to improve your wellbeing working in the NHS.
Diabetes Education for Professionals
The information here is for professionals in Derbyshire working with patients with type 2 diabetes.
Information about your appointment
Everything you need to know before you attend a physiotherapy appointment at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT
Community podiatry - Managing your condition at home
Helpful tips for patients, carers and clinicians to help people with self care
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
Research and Innovation
Our vision is to increase capacity, capability and participation in research and innovation as we embed a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation.
Files
0508 - Index Dividers In-Patients
0508 - Index Dividers In-Patients
Identification and Management of Moisture Lesions (L34)
Identification and Management of Moisture Lesions
1058 - Palliative Care Syringe Driver Prescription Information Sheet Patients aged 18 years and over
1058 - Palliative Care Syringe Driver Prescription Information Sheet Patients aged 18 years and over
L23 - Information about your steroid injection
Patient information leaflet about your steroid injection.
Enhanced Observation Policy (P61)
The purpose of this policy is to describe how supportive observations and engagement maximise people’s safety, minimise risk and initiate and build supportive therapeutic relationships. During times of increased distress or risk, a person may require a temporary period of an enhanced level of supportive engagement to maintain safety for him/her or others while the level of distress or risk is reduced. This will be achieved by establishing a good rapport with the person, promoting their coping skills and being aware of their individual needs/reasonable adjustments. This policy sets out evidence-based practice for individual clinicians, teams and services regarding the engagement and observations of patients being cared for in DCHS inpatient Older People Mental Health and Learning Disability Services only. Observation is seen as an integral part of person-centred treatment planning and contributes to the management and reduction of risk. All forms of observation however will have implications for the patients’ privacy and dignity. The level of observation for each person should be justified as reasonable and proportionate to the degree of risk they pose to either themselves or others and to enable their care needs to be safely met. The aim of The Policy is to provides clear evidence-based guidance for the observation of patients within Older People’s Mental Health and the Learning Disability Service. All persons cared for in Older People’s Mental Health and Learning disability clinical areas are observed by the staff.
L25 - Podiatry Nail Surgery Post Operative Advice Sheet
L25 - Podiatry Nail Surgery Post Operative Advice Sheet
DCHS FINAL - Response Rate Breakdown by Directorate Report.xlsx
directorate final results
COVID Matrix guide for healthcare settings - December 2021.docx
DCHS COVID Matrix guide for healthcare settings - December 2021
Mandatory Covid 19 Vaccination FAQs DCHS_v1.2_27.01.22
Mandatory Covid 19 Vaccination FAQs (DCHS) updated 27 January 2022, answers to your queries about mandatory staff covid-19 vaccinations
COMPASSIONATE CONVERSATIONS - ONE-PAGER V6.pdf
NHS England - Compassionate conversations: hints and tips