Pages
Seeking urgent clinical treatment - guidance on NHS 111 and urgent treatment centres
A guide on how to access the help you need for new onset illnesses or injuries for which you are seeking urgent help or advice.
National Inclusion week 2025
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/national-inclusion-week-2025
Diabetes Education Service
Understanding your Type 2 diabetes is important so you can learn how to control it and have the best quality of life possible.
Files
Disclosure Ref 2025153 - Deaths of under 1 year olds.pdf
Disclosure Ref 2025/153 regarding the number of babies (under 1 year old, including stillbirths if applicable) who died in the Trusts care between 1 January 2010 and the present day
Medicine Code (S2)
This Code defines the roles and responsibilities of all health care professionals and ancillary staff involved in the ordering, storage, distribution, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines within DCHS. This Medicines Code extends the previous Medicines Codes and reviews them in light of current legislation and guidelines.
Disclosure Ref 202262 - Ethnic minority categories used for patients.pdf
FOI Disclosure
TPP199 NEWS2 Escalation Plan for Community Nurses and Therapists
TPP199 NEWS2 Escalation Plan for Community Nurses and Therapists
PGN8 Writing a Specification
DCHS tender process
ANTT Podiatry wound care PROCEDURE.pdf
Achilles Tendinopathy.pub
Standard Application Form.doc
Nutrition and Hydration - Food Poverty
Nutrition and Hydration - Food Poverty
Clinical Harms Review Additional detail for Service Level SOP (S130)
This document should be read in conjunction with the overarching DCHS Standard Operating procedure on Clinical Harms which outlines the processes to be followed 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.