Pages
Quality Conversations Training
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-heart-our-care/quality-conversations-training
Prem Singh – reflections from a career in public service
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/prem-singh-reflections-career-public-service
Farming community invited to health MOT Day at Bakewell Agricultural Centre
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/farming-community-invited-health-mot-day-bakewell-agricultural-centre
Files
Disclosure Ref 2024139 - Software Used for Facilities Management.pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2024139 regarding contract for Software Used for Facilities Management
Disclosure Ref 202595 - Management of staffing contracts and associated services.pdf
FOI disclosure Ref 202595 relating to the management of staffing contracts and associated services
Waste Management Operating Standards V8
DCHS Waste Management Operating Standards
Dysphagia Management Guidelines for Adults with Learning Disabilities Document History (G14)
These guidelines set out the process of Dysphagia management used by the Speech and Language Therapy Department in North Derbyshire. The overall aim of our Dysphagia Service is to ensure that individuals are identified and enabled to eat / drink / take medication safely and comfortably. The policy aims to provide a highly specialised and holistic service to individuals with complex forms of Dysphagia using the latest evidence based assessments, treatments and Dysphagia management policies. We aim to improve dysphagia related health outcomes and individuals quality of life, and employ effective risk management strategies for preventing harm and improving individual’s health outcomes.
Tissue Viability Caseload Management Tool Kit Guidance (G213)
The overall aim of the Guidelines for the Tissue Viability Caseload Management Toolkit is to ensure that Tissue Viability Specialists manage their visits and patient caseloads in a standardised and auditable way across the whole of Tissue Viability Service. The covid19 pandemic has had a profound effect on how care and support for people is provided across all health and care settings thus this guidance has applied the learning from Covid19 to the review and development of the document
Disclosure Ref 202485 - Waste Management Contract & Spend.pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 202485 relating to Waste Management Contract & Spend
Dysphagia Management of Adults (P20)
DCHS recognises the risk to people who have difficulty with eating, drinking and swallowing and that the management of dysphagia is everyone’s business. This policy promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and managing dysphagia. It is to ensure that all people with dysphagia receive the highest possible level of assessment, care and support to achieve maximum independence, pleasure and meet their nutritional needs, whilst keeping the risks associated with this potentially life threatening condition to a minimum.
Guidelines for the Recognition and Management of Infected Wounds (G29)
A framework to enable health care practitioners to deliver best practice in wound care, specifically by providing a tool to be utilised to aid the recognition and management of infected wounds
0004 - Management of the Deceased - Infection Control Notification Form
0004 - Management of the Deceased - Infection Control Notification Form
L179 - Moisture associated skin damage Selfcare Prevention and Management
L179 - Moisture associated skin damage Selfcare Prevention and Management