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Bridging the healthcare access gap for people with disabilities
A NEW initiative to encourage more healthcare and/or non-clinical staff to take up sign language as an extra language and skill, is now available locally.
Public invited to online NHS health meeting
https://dchs.nhs.uk/news/public-invited-online-nhs-health-meeting
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).
Meet your LGBT+ advocates
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/meet-your-lgbt-advocates
Freedom to Speak Up (Raise a Concern)
FTSU at DCHS
Ward Decoration Guidelines
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/ward-decoration-guidelines
Files
Template 07 Short term absence flowchart NEW.docx
HRP20 Supporting and Maintaining Attendance Manager Guide Template 07 Short Term Absence Flowchart
Template 24 Long Term Absence Meeting Outcome NEW.docx
HRP20 Supporting and Maintaining Attendance Policy - Template 24 Long Term Absence Meeting Outcome
Appendix 8 - Flexible Working Pattern.docx
Appendix 8 - Flexible Working Pattern
Process Map 1 – Terminating Fixed Term Contracts Under Two Years’ Service and Over Six Month’s Probationary Service.docx
Process Map 1 – Terminating Fixed Term Contracts Under Two Years’ Service and Over Six Month’s Probationary Service
SAMA Template 04 Reporting Recording Monitoring Absence Flow Chart
Template 04 - Reporting, Recording and Monitoring Absence Flowchart
A9 Management of Diabetic Patients on Insulin on Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Programmes (S109)
Procedure for how to manage diabetic patients on Insulin on Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Programmes
Drug Fridge and Freezer Temperature Monitoring Procedure (S48)
A clear standard procedure to assist and enable ward/unit staff to comply with the Medicines Code requirement to routinely monitor, record and act on drug fridge and freezer temperatures thus ensuring that patients receive effective, correctly stored refrigerated products.
Transcribing Medicines including Insulin for Patients in their Own Homes (Including Care Homes) and within the Short Breaks Service SOP (S29)
This procedure sets out how to record medicine administration, which will make use of transcribing as detailed in the above document.
Patient Manual Handling Policy (P76)
This policy describes how the Trust will comply and maintain compliance with the regulations. It will ensure that the Trust actively reduces the risk of injury from the moving and handling of patients and thereby reduce the incidence of patient injuries, and of musculoskeletal disorders within the staff population working in the clinical setting of the Trust.
DCHS COVID-19 Staff Isolation Risk Assessment V9
DCHS COVID-19 Staff Isolation Risk Assessment V9