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Quality Conversations Training
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-heart-our-care/quality-conversations-training
Can you spare a day to cycle for healthy children and a healthy climate? - Ride for their lives 2022
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
Mental Health Act 1983 Procedure for Associate Hospital Managers Hearings Policy and Procedure (P78)
To provide guidance to Trust staff when considering the use of urgent treatment to patients detained in hospital under the MHA 1983, or subject to a Community Treatment Order.
Appendix 1 - Homely Remedies Knowledge Assessment and Authorisation Form (S16)
Appendix 1 - Homely Remedies Knowledge Assessment and Authorisation Form (S16)
Appendix 6 – SBAR Structured Communication Tool (P83)
Appendix 6 – SBAR Structured Communication Tool (P83)
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
Appendix B - Mandatory Vaccination Record of Discussion Form.docx
Appendix B - Mandatory Vaccination Record of Discussion Form
Consultation.pptx
DCHS Mileage consultation - presentation
SOP 4 Procedure for decontaminating instruments at the end of the day (P16)
SOP 4 Procedure for decontaminating instruments at the end of the day (P16)
L84 - What is a Venous Leg Ulcer Leaflet
L84 - What is a Venous Leg Ulcer Leaflet