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NHS Trust seeks people with a passion for healthcare to be their community’s voice
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/nhs-trust-seeks-people-passion-healthcare-be-their-communitys-voice
Diabetes Education Service
Understanding your Type 2 diabetes is important so you can learn how to control it and have the best quality of life possible.
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
Butterley Ward is back at Ripley Hospital
Plans have been announced to bring Butterley Ward back to Ripley Hospital from its temporary base at Ilkeston Community Hospital after Easter, during the final week of April.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/date-announced-butterley-ward-move-back-ripley-hospital
Derbyshire NHS Trust’s annual public accountability meeting - Open to all online
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-nhs-trusts-annual-public-accountability-meeting-open-all-online
Speech and language therapy service
Our therapists, practitioners, assistants and admin support workers work together to deliver high quality services for adults and children who have speech, language and communication difficulties; eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia). We work with adults and children, throughout Derbyshire and Derby City. More specifically: Derby City and Derbyshire County - Adults and Derby City and the southern half of Derbyshire County - Children.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/our-services-and-locations/a-z-list-of-services/speech_language_therapy
Information about your appointment
Everything you need to know before you attend a physiotherapy appointment at Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS FT
Pension Automatic Re-Enrolment - July 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/pension-automatic-re-enrolment-july-2025
Files
Disclosure Ref 2024202 - International Healthcare Recruitment Campaigns.pdf
Freedom of Information disclosure reference 2024/202 relating to international recruitment campaigns including insight into the professions being recruited, appointed agency, framework utilised and Contract expiry
Disclosure Ref 2024155 - Medical Devices and EBME devices.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure reference 2024155 relating to Medical Devices and EBME devices and the contracts associated with these
Disclosure Ref 2024296 - Electronic Document Management System.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure relating to Electronic Document Management System
DCHS N365 Policy FAQs.docx
Frequently asked questions relating to the DCHS N365 policy. For example can you use your personal phone, tablet, or laptop to access N365? Can you share confidential patient information using MS Teams? and what tools and services are included in the N365 platform? What is the "cloud first" approach?
Disclosure Ref 2025210 - Communicating with patients and the costs associated with this.doc
Freedom of Information disclosure relating to the costs associated with communicating with patients for example, postage for letters, SMS messages
Disclosure Ref 2025249 - Electrical maintenance (1).doc
Freedom of Information disclosure relating to electrical maintenance
Disclosure Ref 2025290 - Master Vendor and Natural Vendor.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to the Trusts use of Master Vendor and/or Neutral Vendor staffing arrangements
Disclosure Ref 2025308 - Job planning and software contract.docx
Freedom of information disclosure relating to job planning and software contract
Disclosure Ref 2025311 - Agency and bank spend.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to agency and bank spend
Disclosure Ref 2025300 - Medical Microbiology, Virology & Infectious disease.docx
Freedom of information disclosure relating to virology/microbiology laboratory arrangements, test volumes, clinical advisory coverage, lab setup, staffing, workload distribution, out‑of‑hours cover, and inpatient care responsibilities.