Pages
Ward Decoration Guidelines
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/ward-decoration-guidelines
The DCHS Admin People’s Charter 2024
https://dchs.nhs.uk/my_dchs/show-me/staff-news-my-download/dchs-admin-peoples-charter-2024
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
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
Flat Feet in Children.pub
COVID Outbreak Form for Patients
COVID Outbreak
APPENDIX 6 Application Form for Unpaid Parental Leave.docx
Short Break Service SOP (S137)
This SOP aims to outline the process for providing clear guidance to medication support and assistance, delegation to the support workers/support worker supervisors and what training they need to complete for them to be able to support the patients in the service.
Organisational strategy - Bitesize slides - Working in Partnership
Organisational strategy - Bitesize slides - Working in Partnership
Disclosure Ref 2025116 - Plastic bags used in wards.pdf
Disclosure Ref 2025116 regarding plastic bin liners used on psychiatric inpatient wards
Disclosure Ref 2025193- Policies on employees having legal right to work in the UK.doc
Freedom of information disclosure relating to how the Trust ensures legal right‑to‑work compliance for employees and agency staff, who oversees these processes, and whether there have been any related audits, asylum‑seeker employment, visa‑related checks, terminations, or partnerships over the last three years.
SOP for Staff Notebooks and the non-use of paper diaries.pdf
DCHS STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE FOR STAFF Notebooks and the non-use of paper diaries
The Use of Force, Restraint Reduction and the Management of Violence and Aggression (P58)
The policy provides a framework for support staff who work across Learning Disability Services (LD) and Older Peoples Mental Health Services (OPMH), in responding to situations that they face with regards to Behaviours that Challenge and in particular, violence and aggression (both where they can plan and where an incident in unforeseen).
Wound Assessment SOP (S62)
The purpose of this document is to provide a clear written procedure for staff to understand what information is required when assessing a wound using the wound assessment template on SystmOne. It will include information about when to refer to different services and key information about individual accountability to the patient in wound care. This document will be available to all nurses in Community Health Services and to new starters. It will provide them with a single reference point for how to assess a wound and action to be taken in the event of problems, concerns or complaints.