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Accessible information standards
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/accessible-information
Interpreting & translation
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/equality-diversity-inclusion/interpreting-translation
Patient Safety
Patient Safety is the freedom from harm in healthcare and is a process by which an organisation makes patient care safer.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-heart-our-care/patient-safety
Industrial Action Update - Issued on 16 January 2023
Ahead of this week’s planned industrial action by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), we’ve developed an in-depth briefing which we hope colleagues will find useful. It also signposts to other helpful sources of information.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/industrial-action-update-16-january
Derbyshire health and care system remains under pressure; patients continue to be asked to not store up care needs
Update as of 17:00hrs - 22 December 2022
Files
Covid vaccination webinar 26 January for healthcare workers - answering your questions on pregnancy and fertility (003)
Covid vaccination webinar 26 January for healthcare workers - answering your questions on pregnancy and fertility
Organisational Decontamination Roles and Responsibilities
Organisational Decontamination Roles and Responsibilities
Organisational, Individual and Committee Responsibilities for IP and C Guidelines (G279)
G279 - Organisational, Individual and Committee Responsibilities for IP&C Guidelines (Section 5.2 in P69)
Operating Standard PPE Jan21
Operating Standard PPE Jan21
COVID-19 and Respiratory Illnesses Guideline and Procedure (Section 6.17) (G278)
COVID-19 & Respiratory Illnesses Guideline and Procedure
DCHS Organisational Strategy 2023 - 2028
54016 DCHS Organisational Strategy 2023 - 2028 Final Interactive
Clinical Harms Review Additional detail for Service Level SOP - Community Podiatry Service (S113)
This document should be read in conjunction with the overarching DCHS Standard Operating procedure on Clinical Harms which outlines the processes to be followed in order to deliver a consistent approach to: • Utilising a proactive method of risk stratification to minimise clinical harm as a result of delays in care. • Embedding systems which consider health inequalities. • Monitoring waiting times against defined thresholds across pathways of care. • Delivering personalised, patient-centred communications to patients who are waiting for care. • Implementing Harm Reviews for the that support the Trusts governance and assurance processes and maintains practice in line with national expectations.
A2 - Derbyshire Children’s Continence Service L2 referral pathway for product provision (P91)
A2 - Derbyshire Children’s Continence Service L2 referral pathway for product provision
Mental Health Act 1983 - Detention of Informal Patients under Section 5(4) Policy and Procedure (P104)
This policy provides guidance on the use of Section 5(4), nurses holding power under the Mental Health Act 1983. It should be followed by all Registered Mental Health Nurses and Learning Disability Nurses working in trust in-patient areas. This short-term power, not more than six hours, can be applied to informal patients under certain conditions as below. This policy should be read in conjunction with Chapter 18 ‘Holding powers’ of the Mental Health Act 1983 Code of Practice (2015).
Disclosure Ref 2024134 - List of Medications To Be Used in Nursing Teams.pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2024134 - List of Medications To Be Used in Nursing Teams