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Derbyshire Health and Care System Continues to Declare Critical Incident
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-health-and-care-system-continues-declare-critical-incident
Health Psychology FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions about health psychology for the people of Derby and Derbyshire
A message from the Royal Voluntary Service
We are writing to you because you have previously referred people to the NHS Volunteer Responders (NHSVR) programme, to tell you about changes to the support available from our volunteers.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/message-royal-voluntary-service
Files
Disclosure Ref 2024197 - Patients detained under the MHA .pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2024197 regarding Patients detained under the Mental Health Act
8 Steps to Patient Isolation (L343)
Guidance to support colleagues when deciding how to isolate a patient with suspected/confirmed infection.
Disclosure Ref 202512 - Parking fines at St Oswalds.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure ref 202512 relating to parking fines at St Oswalds
Disclosure Ref 202586 - Patient Flow System.pdf
Freedom of information final disclosure reference 202586 relating to Patient Flow System
A2 - Foot Dressing Clinic Patient cancellation (S149)
A2 - Foot Dressing Clinic Patient cancellation (S149)
Unopposed-declaration-Staff-OtherRegisteredProfessionals.pdf
Unopposed-declaration-Staff-OtherRegisteredProfessionals
0182 - Request for the Provision of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Patients in Community Care
0182 - Request for the Provision of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Patients in Community Care
L267 - Adult Sepsis Safety Net - Signs of Sepsis and what to do
L267 - Adult Sepsis Safety Net - Signs of Sepsis and what to do
NHSI National Stop the Pressure Guidance (G100)
G100 - NHSI National Stop the Pressure Guidance
Recognition of Patient Deterioration (Adults) Policy (P83)
The aim of this policy is to set the minimum standard and frequency for monitoring and recording adult patients’ vital signs in their own home, Minor Injuries Units, outpatient podiatric surgery and community hospital wards. The mismanagement of deterioration is a common area of systemic failure in avoidable patient death across the NHS (NHS Improvement, 2016, Hogan et al, 2012) and poor communication is a leading cause of adverse events in healthcare. The National Early Warning Score (NEWS) offers a common language to describe and communicate a patient’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 (Inada-Kim and Nsutebu, 2018). This policy aims to increase survival among acutely unwell and deteriorating patients