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Let’s Chat 2023 campaign launch – don’t miss your chance to get involved
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/lets-chat-2023-campaign-launch
Derbyshire Community Health Services welcomes international nurses
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-community-health-services-welcomes-international-nurses
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
Disclosure Ref 202580 - Trust processes to reduce medication waste.pdf
Freedom of Information disclosure reference 2025/80 regarding medicine waste reduction including the value of medication that had to waste in the last 2 financial years (April 2023 - April 2025) and the what has been your total drug spend over these years
Disclosure Ref 2025106 - School immunisation software .pdf
Freedom of Information Disclosure Ref 2025106 relating to software used to manage digital consent for School Aged Immunisation campaigns
A2 - Duty of Candour Letter Template (P81)
Duty of Candour Letter Template
Final Standard Operating Procedure Safe Staffing Levels and Annual Leave management ISHS October 2025
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.
SOP for the supply or issue of Steroid Emergency Cards (S87)
Identify / supply to patients who require a Steroid Emergency card in the Community Hospitals setting, Urgent Treatment Centres, Podiatric Surgery, Integrated Community teams and specialist services such as Respiratory teams and Physiotherapy if a new Steroid Emergency card is needed or a Steroid Emergency Card has been lost
Appendix 4 - List of CDs which Require Denaturing and Witnessed Destruction (S47)
Appendix 4 - List of CDs which Require Denaturing and Witnessed Destruction (S47)