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Message from Michelle Bateman - Registered Nursing Associates
An update from Michelle about how DCHS has supported the Nursing Associate role since 2019.
Queens Nurse Awards 2022 - applications opening soon!
Our DCHS group of Queen's Nurses is growing fast, and we encourage you to apply. Information and details for the 2022 applications will be available on the Queen's Nursing institute website from March 2022.
Updated plans for Belper’s proposed new base for community health services to be shared on 27 January
Revised plans for a new base for Belper’s community health services, situated on the site of the former Belper Clinic, will be shared during a virtual meeting on Thursday 27 January at 6pm.
Derbyshire NHS Trust’s annual public accountability meeting - Open to all online
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/derbyshire-nhs-trusts-annual-public-accountability-meeting-open-all-online
Butterley Ward is back at Ripley Hospital
Plans have been announced to bring Butterley Ward back to Ripley Hospital from its temporary base at Ilkeston Community Hospital after Easter, during the final week of April.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/date-announced-butterley-ward-move-back-ripley-hospital
Speech and language therapy service
Our therapists, practitioners, assistants and admin support workers work together to deliver high quality services for adults and children who have speech, language and communication difficulties; eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties (dysphagia). We work with adults and children, throughout Derbyshire and Derby City. More specifically: Derby City and Derbyshire County - Adults and Derby City and the southern half of Derbyshire County - Children.
https://dchs.nhs.uk/our-services-and-locations/a-z-list-of-services/speech_language_therapy
Files
Staff FORUM poster - 2022.pdf
2022 dates poster
Deployment of Approved Clinicians Policy (P98)
The policy aims to provide clear guidance on the training, role, retention, deployment and support of multidisciplinary Approved Clinicians. • ensure that the hospital mangers have an policy and protocols for appropriate deployment of Approved Clinicians • ensure that DCHS is able to ensure patients access high quality care in line with appropriate legal frameworks such as the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act. • ensure compliance with the Mental Health Act 1983 and subsequent Code of Practice 2015. • ensure robust governance arrangements that are transparent in their nature. • support the Trusts ambition of providing patients with a suitably skilled Approved Clinician to progress care according to the guiding prinicples of the MHA . • ensure the specific needs of all patients are met in a fair and equitable way.
Band 3 Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Assistant Speech and Language Therapy Service SOP – Children’s Community Service (S121)
The aim of this SOP is to outline the processes involved in identifying and managing children referred to the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Assistant (SLTA).
Appendix 3 - Wound Clinic Referral Management Process (S82)
Wound Clinic Referral Management Process
ACCESS TO RECORDS POLICY.docx
This policy details the procedures the Trust has adopted for dealing with applications for access to personal records held by Derbyshire Community Health Services, whether formal manual (for example, on paper) or computerised (such as within a clinical system) or information which could be classed as informal which may have been written within emails, text or recorded in Microsoft Teams, for example.
DCHS Plan.pdf
DCHS plan on a page 2021/2022
Complaints and Concerns Policy.docx
DCHS Complaints and Concerns Policy
L159 - Coping with Cancer
L159 - Coping with Cancer, is a patient information leaflet to help patients make sense of some of the changes and the feelings that they may experience.
L126 - Psychology Support Service for people affected by cancer
Patient information leaflet describing the Psychology Support Service for people affected by cancer.
Management of Under Nutrition in Adults (G43)
The aim of the guidelines is to ensure effective patient centred oral nutrition support in Derbyshire by promoting a fortified diet and appropriate, effective ONS prescribing.