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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).
Meet your LGBT+ advocates
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/meet-your-lgbt-advocates
Let’s Chat 2023 campaign launch – don’t miss your chance to get involved
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/lets-chat-2023-campaign-launch
Tissue Viability Update
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/tissue-viability-update
Freedom to Speak Up (Raise a Concern)
FTSU at DCHS
Files
Disclosure Ref 2024282 - Contract for e-signature vendor.pdf
Freedom of information disclosure relating to Contract for e-signature vendor
DCHS 2024-25 WRES & WDES Data & Action Plan
DCHS 2024-25 WRES & WDES Data & Action Plan
Pseudonymisation Policy.docx
DCHS Pseudonymisation (De-Identification) Policy
HRP23 Probationary Period Policy.docx
DCHS Probationary Period Policy
0220 - Barrier Cleaning Daily Schedule for individual patient form
0220 - Daily Barrier Cleaning Schedule for individual patient
L31 - Just in Case Box Anticipatory Medicine Pack
L31 - Just in Case Box Anticipatory Medicine Pack Leaflet
TPP178-0217 - Seizure Description Data
TPP178-0217 - Seizure Description Data
Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction (PTTD) Care Pathway (G78)
G78 - Posterior Tibial Tendon Dysfunction (PTTD) Care Pathway
TPP227-0007 - National Early Warning Score Chart
TPP227-0007 - National Early Warning Score Chart
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