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"Think which service" this winter, urge health leaders
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/think-which-service-winter-urge-health-leaders
New winter ward opens at Ilkeston Community Hospital
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/new-winter-ward-opens-ilkeston-community-hospital
Scam police calls reported in Derbyshire
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/scam-police-calls-reported-derbyshire
Ashbourne poet’s thanks in verse for NHS nurses is unveiled at St Oswald’s Hospital
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/ashbourne-poets-thanks-verse-nhs-nurses-unveiled-st-oswalds-hospital
LGBTQIA+ Staff Network
Find out how to join the LGBTQ+ staff network, support our work through meetings, wearing the rainbow pin badge or rainbow lanyard and more you can do as an LGBTQ+ ally.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/staff-networks/lgbt-staff-network-group
NHS England Healthier Futures Action Fund
NHS England Healthier Futures Action Fund - applications open now!
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/nhs-england-healthier-futures-action-fund
Files
Guidance Checklist to Support Clinicians in determining Fast Track Eligibility (G258)
This guidance has been developed to assist Clinicians to determine whether it is appropriate to complete the Fast Track - Continuing Healthcare Application. The intention of the Fast Track Pathway is that it should identify individuals who need to access NHS Continuing Healthcare (CHC) quickly, with minimum delay, and with no requirement to complete a CHC Decision Support Tool (DST). Therefore, the completed Fast Track Pathway Tool, with clear reasons why the individual fulfils the criteria, and which clearly evidences that an individual is both rapidly deteriorating and approaching the end of life.
Disclosure Ref 2022127 - BI & Data Warehousing, E-rostering, Order Communications, Pathology, Pharmacy, & Scheduling.pdf
Response to FOI
Disclosure Ref 2022109 - Strategies & reports including the operational plan 2022.pdf
FOI Disclosure
APPENDIX 2 Statutory Paternity Pay and Leave Becoming a Parent (SC3).docx
Your Health Records Leaflet - updated Jan 2019.pdf
Promotion and Management of Continence for Adult Services Policy (P10)
This policy aims to identify a framework for the standards of care and best practice for bladder, bowel and continence promotion. The range of multidisciplinary professionals involved in continence care is diverse, and it is therefore essential that a continence service delivers integrated working practices across organisational and professional boundaries in order to provide effective care and efficient use of resource. The information detailed within this document will assist healthcare professionals who are undertaking a continence assessment and sets the standards of care for patients who present with a bladder or bowel problem. The continence advisory service aims to provide a quality service to all adults registered with a Derbyshire or Derby City GP. People with continence needs should be seen at the most appropriate time by the most appropriate professional. Excellence in continence care (2018) suggests that the initial assessment is best undertaken by staff trained in continence care within in a community setting, the provision of a high-quality assessment is the foundation of high-quality continence care.
Dressing Formulary and Wound Care Guidelines (G68)
The Derbyshire Wound Care and dressing formulary has been revised in collaboration with the East Midlands Wound Care Formulary Group. Work has been undertaken to provide a clinically effective, appropriate and cost effective choices of products to manage the vast majority of wounds. The formulary is available for all practitioners working for Derbyshire Community Health Services and Primary Care Services. It is expected that prescribers will preferentially use the products listed in the guide for routine use and be able to provide robust rationale where they have prescribed outside the formulary.
Appendix 4 - List of CDs which Require Denaturing and Witnessed Destruction (S47)
Appendix 4 - List of CDs which Require Denaturing and Witnessed Destruction (S47)
Water Safety Plan Design Control 2.1.pdf
Water Safety Plan Design Control 2.1, Estates Design Team, Legionella, Water Systems.
Disclosure Ref 202262 - Ethnic minority categories used for patients.pdf
FOI Disclosure