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Derbyshire Community Health Services welcomes international nurses
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-community-health-services-welcomes-international-nurses
Five-star salon experience for Ilkeston patients
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/five-star-salon-experience-ilkeston-patients
Infection prevention & control
https://dchs.nhs.uk/about-us/quality-heart-our-care/infection-prevention-and-control
Help us choose the colour scheme inside Belper’s new health centre
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/help-us-choose-colour-scheme-inside-belpers-new-health-centre
Derbyshire NHS helping new parents with baby feeding campaign
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-nhs-helping-new-parents-baby-feeding-campaign
Files
Disclosure Ref 2025126 - Amputation Surgeries since 2017.pdf
FOI Disclosure Ref 2025126 regarding amputation Surgeries since 2017
Disclosure Ref 2025159 - Eating disorder service.pdf
Disclosure Ref 2025159 regarding Eating disorder service
Appendix 7 Trial Period Review Template.docx
Derbyshire_Community_Health_Services_NHS_Foundation_Trust_licence.pdf
DCHS licence
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.
Intravenous Therapy and Vascular Access Device (VAD) Policy - Adults (P47)
The use of intravenous medicines has many healthcare benefits for patients. Intravenous medicines are increasingly commonplace within the community setting and the need for an intravenous medicine is often a reason for patient’s being admitted to secondary care. Following the implementation of national and local policy, there is a new direction for community care providers such as DCHS to develop services that can be provided within the community hospital or community setting to accommodate patient’s being able to receive more complex care. The aims of this policy are: To prevent unnecessary acute hospital admission and to facilitate early discharge from the acute hospital setting by enabling patients to receive IV medicines safely within their own home or a community health care setting. To ensure an IV medicine is the most appropriate treatment for the patient and that it is administered via the most appropriate Vascular Access Device, the most appropriate vascular access site is chosen and the IV medicine is administered at the right time. To reduce the risk of complications by ensuring registered practitioners’ practice safely and consistently in relation to the administration of IV medicines, Vascular Access Device Insertion and the care and maintenance of Vascular Access Devices (VADs), through the implementation of evidence-based practice and by providing staff with the necessary guidance on clinical practice and training. To preserve and promote patient vessel health in the short and long term by ensuring any Vascular Access Device inserted is the most appropriate device for the treatment being administered and that it is placed by the most appropriately qualified practitioner.
Ward-Decoration-Guidelines.docx
Christmas 2021 - IP&C guidance
DCHS Community Podiatry eligibility leaflet (2020).pdf
DCHS Community Podiatry eligibility leaflet (2020)
Community services visiting you at home _1.pdf
Appendix 9 - PCR Testing (Procedure and Transportation)
Appendix 9: PCR Testing (Procedure and Transportation) - Section 5.28 Covid-19 IP&C Policy