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"Think which service" this winter, urge health leaders
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My Download - 15 November 2021
Weekly all staff e-newsletter
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Files
Disclosure Ref 2024258 - Financial return from 2023-24..pdf
Freedom of information disclosure relating to the Month 12 provider financial return from 2023-24 and the Trusts financial return from month 1 2024 - 2025
Disclosure Ref 2024284 - Medication chain disruptions & incidents.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure relating to medication chain disruptions & incidents due to this
Disclosure Ref 202552 - Clinical Waste Contract.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to clinical waste contracts and leads for various services
Disclosure Ref 2025213 - Cyber security incidents, data breaches following cyber incidents & measures in place.doc
Freedom of Information disclosure relating to cyber security incidents, data breaches following cyber incidents & measures in place
Disclosure Ref 2025222 - Thoracoscopy services.doc
Freedom of information relating to thoracoscopy services
Disclosure Ref 2025269 - IT software, supplier and spend.xlsx
Freedom of information disclosure relating to IT software, supplier and spend
Incident Reporting Policy (P80)
Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS) NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of patients, staff, visitors, and contractors alike. DCHS aspires to provide a Zero Harm environment. The policy considers the recommendations of the Department of Health publications: An Organisation with a Memory, Building a Safer NHS, Doing less Harm and the former National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) publication Building a memory: preventing harm, reducing risks and improving patient safety, Berwick report 2013 and the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and subsequent subsidiary reports. The reporting, management and investigation of adverse incidents are fundamental elements of risk management. Sharing the learning from adverse incidents (including near misses) enables the organisation to implement changes to practice, processes, and systems so that the risk of harm is reduced. In addition to the human costs, if incidents are not properly managed, they may result in a loss of public confidence in the organisation and a loss of assets.
L223 - Managing Breathlessness Leaflet
L223 - Managing Breathlessness. A Respiratory Service patient information leaflet leaflet.
Guidelines for Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment - Adapted Waterlow Score (G89)
The purpose of this Standard Operation Procedure is to set out the process to be followed to ensure a consistent approach is followed for the assessment of patient’s risks of developing pressure ulcers.
Administration of Insulin Injection Policy and Standard Operating Procedure (P4)
There are a growing number of people who, because of disability, increasing age or infirmity, are unable to administer their own insulin and will need support. This guideline aims to promote standardisation and safety of insulin administration within Derbyshire Community Health Services (DCHS NHS FT). This document aligns with the Professional Guidance on the Administration of Medicines in Healthcare Settings (Royal Pharmaceutical Society 2019). Patient centred care based upon different ways of working underpins this policy and procedure as identified within the NHS Plan (DH 2000), the NSF for Older People (DH 2001), Making a Difference (DH 2001) and the NSF for Diabetes (DH 2002). UK Injection technique Recommendations have been considered alongside the need to consider safer sharps for staff (Forum for Injection Technique 2016). Underpinning the guidance are the most recent NICE and Derbyshire guidance for the management of diabetes (Joint Area Prescribing Committee 2018 NICE 2015) and National Patient Safety Alert (NPSA), ‘Risk of severe harm and death due to withdrawing insulin from pen devices,’ 16 November 2016.