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Everything you need to know before you attend a physiotherapy appointment at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT
World Arthritis Day - 12 October 22
The theme this year is - 'It's in your hands, take action'. It aims to encourage people with arthritis, their caregivers, families, and the general public to avail every opportunity to take action to improve their lifestyle.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/world-arthritis-day-12-october-22
Sustainability/Green Agenda
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/i-want-more-information-on/corporate-services/sustainabilitygreen-agenda
Contractor appointed to build new £15m health services hub for Belper
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/contractor-appointed-build-new-15m-health-services-hub-belper
Advice to patients and families during the consultants’ industrial action
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/advice-patients-and-families-during-consultants-industrial-action
Queens Nurse Awards 2022 - applications opening soon!
Our DCHS group of Queen's Nurses is growing fast, and we encourage you to apply. Information and details for the 2022 applications will be available on the Queen's Nursing institute website from March 2022.
Finance and Procurement System Changes
The Trust’s current contract for the provision of financial services (i.e. finance and procurement) from NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) is coming to an end on 31 March 2022.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/finance-and-procurement-system-changes
Health Psychology - Information and Tools to Help You
A page of health psychology information and resources for the people of Derbyshire.
Files
L159 - Coping with Cancer
L159 - Coping with Cancer, is a patient information leaflet to help patients make sense of some of the changes and the feelings that they may experience.
Pain Management Programme Inclusion and Exclusion Guidelines for Referrers (G81)
he Pain Management Programme is a multiple disciplinary group intervention aimed at service users with persistent pain whose condition has proved difficult to treat. The groups are run at venues across Chesterfield and North-East Derbyshire. This programme is jointly run by Health Psychology and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy clinicians and is for people who are seeking to manage persistent musculoskeletal pain.
Medicine Code (S2)
This Code defines the roles and responsibilities of all health care professionals and ancillary staff involved in the ordering, storage, distribution, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines within DCHS. This Medicines Code extends the previous Medicines Codes and reviews them in light of current legislation and guidelines.
Safe Use of Bed Rails and Bed Area Equipment Within Inpatient Areas Policy (P22)
Some people in hospital may be at risk of falling from bed for many reasons including poor mobility, cognitive impairment, e.g. dementia, brain damage, visual impairment, and the effects of their treatment or medication. The National Audit of Inpatient Falls 2015 reported that twenty two per cent of patients who fall in hospital do so from their bed. The use of bed rails can be challenging. This is because bed rails are not appropriate for all patients and can create a barrier to independence that can create a greater risk of falls to mobile but confused patients who may attempt to climb over the rails. However a review of literature indicates that falls from beds with bed rails are usually associated with lower rates of injury (NRSL 2015). Bed rails and other pieces of bed equipment are not appropriate for all people, and using bedrails, bed levers etc. involves risks. National data suggests around 1,250 people injure themselves on bed rails each year. This is usually scrapes and bruises to their lower legs. Based on reports to the MHRA and the HSE, deaths from bed rail entrapment could probably have been avoided if MHRA advice had been followed. Staff should continue to take great care to avoid bed rail entrapment, but need to be aware that in hospital settings there is a greater risk of harm to people falling from beds.
Identification Policy for Patients (P70)
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust (DCHS) aims to take all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of patients by having robust systems in place to confirm a patient’s identify. This policy provides guidance for staff to reduce the risk of misidentification of patients using the guidance issued in the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) Safer Practice Notice (2007) “Standardising wristbands improves patient safety”. This policy aims to: • Reduce the potential of harm to patients caused by misidentification; • Ensure compliance with National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) advice.
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Picture of neck anatomy
Policy for the maintenance and management of lifts
Policy for the maintenance and management of lifts, Insurance Inspector, Lift Management, thorough examination, lift servicing.
Living with COVID (June 2022)
Living with COVID June 22 - v 3 Updated guidance on IP&C, mask wearing and general behaviours expected of staff, patients and visitors .
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
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