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Community podiatry - Managing your condition at home
Helpful tips for patients, carers and clinicians to help people with self care
Dr Chris Clayton appointed as Chief Executive Designate JUCD
The appointment of Dr Chris Clayton as Chief Executive Designate of the NHS Integrated Care Board for Derby and Derbyshire.
Vote for naming Bakewell’s new NHS health hub
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/vote-naming-bakewells-new-nhs-health-hub
DCHS SIM-swap project – important information for laptop users
DCHS SIM-swap project - 5 weeks to swap out over 2,500 laptops. Mostly laptops that are used by mobile workers (ie clinicians that go in to patients homes).
Files
RAG Rating A3 (G320)
RAG Rating
Unopposed-declaration-Staff-AdminClericalandManager.pdf
Declaration - Staff Admin Clerical and Manager
TPP116 GULP Dehydration risk screening tool
TPP116 GULP Dehydration Risk Screening Tool for In-Patients
1202 - Application for authorised witnesses to be approved by DCHS Accountable Officer for CD destruction
1202 - Application for authorised witnesses to be approved by DCHS Accountable Officer for CD destruction
0106 - Samples Fridge Temperature Monitoring Form (P69)
0106 - Samples Fridge Temperature Monitoring Form (P69)
0260 - Blood pressure information for ESSD patients
0260 - Blood pressure information for ESSD patients
Suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis Pathway Urgent Treatment Centre (G95)
G95 - Suspected Deep Vein Thrombosis Pathway Urgent Treatment Centre
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
What_happens_when_i_make_a_complaint.docx
DCHS - what happens if I make a complaint?
Advice for Patients Who are Self Isolating.pdf
DCHS Advice for patients who are self isolating