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Vaccine hesitancy - webinar
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/vaccine-hesitancy-webinar
Virtual ward helps Derbyshire patients stay at home for Christmas and New Year
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/virtual-ward-helps-derbyshire-patients-stay-home-christmas-and-new-year
Work starts at Walton Hospital for one-stop-shop community diagnostic centre
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/work-starts-walton-hospital-one-stop-shop-community-diagnostic-centre
LGBT+ staff network refresh!
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/lgbt-staff-network-refresh
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Recognition of the Deteriorating Child Policy (P93)
The aim of this policy is to set the minimum standard and frequency for monitoring and recording Child patients’ vital signs in their own home, Urgent Treatment Centres and Outpatient Podiatric Surgery. The mismanagement of deterioration is a common area of systemic failure in avoidable patient death across the NHS and poor communication is a leading cause of adverse events in healthcare. The Paediatric Observation Priority Score (POPS) offers a common language to describe and communicate a child’s acute illness severity by all healthcare professionals in all settings and is central to establishing a national pathway for improving the management of deterioration and sepsis.
Requesting and Managing Pathology Results within DCHS Community Hospital Wards SOP (S98)
The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to outline the steps required to effectively manage the requesting, receiving, filing and actioning of all pathology results by either an electronic process or by a relevant paper-based system. Utilising an electronic system (such as ICE) enables pathology requests to be requested, reviewed and actioned electronically via the electronic patient record within TPP SystmOne. There are an estimated 1.12 billion pathology tests undertaken each year in England (NHS England, 2020) It is imperative a record of all pathology samples is accurately maintained to avoid patient harm and improve patient outcomes (WHO, 2021). The Care Quality Commission (2021) inspects the management of test results to ensure processes are robust, practice is safe and care is effective.
Completion of agency checks within the 0-19 Children’s Service Guidelines (G249)
The purpose of this guidance is to ensure that health visitors and school nurses clearly understand their roles and responsibilities when they are asked to complete an agency check. This includes ensuring that the relevant consent to share information has been obtained from parents/ those with parental responsibility for the child/ young person ( this should be obtained by social care). The guidance also clearly outlines the process for admin staff to follow to ensure that any requests are sent to the clinical teams and that in turn the clinical teams can respond in a timely manner.
Information Governance Handbook v1 2023 09.pdf
A handy Information Governance handbook giving a quick-access guide covering key topics like data protection, cyber security, IG training, phishing awareness, incident reporting, SARs, FOIs, and records management. Includes links to policies and resources
Patient (or carer) Initiated Follow-up SOP Dementia Palliative Care Service (S132)
Patient initiated follow-up (PIFU) describes when a patient (or their carer) can initiate their follow-up visit as and when required, e.g., when symptoms or circumstances change. This SOP defines the process, roles, and responsibilities for the following: • Identifying which patients PIFU is right for • Moving a patient onto a PIFU pathway • Booking visits which have been initiated by a patient or carer • Managing patients who do not initiate a review/home visit within the PIFU timescale • Discharging or booking reviews at the end of that patient’s PIFU timescale • Monitoring compliance Dementia Palliative Care Service are in the process of piloting a PIFU process for 12 months. The pilot will be reviewed every 3 months with a final review post 12 months.
Disclosure Ref 202529 - Car parking management .pdf
Disclosure to freedom of information request regarding Car Parks that are on DCHS owned sites
Disclosure Ref 202513 - Assaults on Hospital Staff.pdf
Disclosure to freedom of information request regarding Incidents and assaults on hospital staff
Disclosure Ref 202533 - Use or perform Viscosupplementation injections.pdf
Disclosure to freedom of information request regarding use or perform Viscosupplementation injections
Disclosure Ref 202504 - Vials used & patients treated 2024 .pdf
Freedom of Information disclosure ref 202504 relating to vials used and number of patients treated
Disclosure Ref 2024236 - Weight loss drug.pdf
Freedom of Information request reference 2024236 relating to GP & A&E appointments and deaths relating to overdose of either Saxenda, ozempic or wegovy (medical names Liraglutide and semaglutide) weightloss drugs