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To provide clear information to everyone working at MCFT about dress, uniform and other aspects of appearance.

This Policy, which covers the disposal of surplus / damaged / obsolete / condemned assets, has been developed by the Deputy Director of Finance for the attention of all managers in accordance with the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions (Policy F02), and the Scheme of Reservation and Delegation of Powers (F03), which are available to view via the Trust’s intranet

This procedure describes the processes that should be followed for the initiation and maintenance of anticoagulant therapy for a patient during their inpatient admission. It provides guidance on Low Molecular Weight Heparin, vitamin K antagonists and Direct Oral Anticoagulation treatments in relation to assessing eligibility, contraindications and cautions; consent and counselling; prescribing and care planning; administration and monitoring; discharge planning and obtaining supplies.

This Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) supports the process of identifying the correct Document Title for Medication Prescriptions being uploaded onto EMIS Web, ensuring a safe and efficient approach is always achieved when uploading medication prescriptions allowing for the correct and most up to date prescription to be selected when administering medication

The guidance and standard operating procedures are based on Trust wide principles contained within the Patient Access Pathway and the Care Programme Approach policies, with localisation as required within St Helens Borough. The development of Recovery Teams are to offer a specialist multi disciplinary service for individuals over the age of 18 suffering with mental health problems that are of a sufficient severity or complexity to require specialist intervention and will work in close partnership with all other significant agencies. The St Helens Recovery Team provides core hours of a 9am-5pm Monday – Friday service. The Recovery Team accepts referrals from the Trusts secondary Adult Mental Health Teams, the Criminal Justice Liaison Teams, Older Peoples Service (for those with functional conditions) and the inpatient wards. Integrated teams with the local authority also accept direct referrals.

The purpose of this procedure is to ensure an effective and consistent response to reports of service users who are either detained under the Mental Health Act (MHA) 1983 (as amended 2007) or under Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) as per the Mental Capacity Act (2005) who abscond from an inpatient setting; are absent without leave (AWOL); or fail to return from a period of leave and how to return them safely to the ward if appropriate.

This policy supports the requirements of the NHS England Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and sets out how Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (the Trust) will approach the development and maintenance of effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents and issues for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety.

This Procedure is issued as guidance on when and how a paper document can be scanned and attached to an electronic record. This Procedure is intended to ensure that when paper documents are scanned they are scanned in accordance with British Standards Institution (BSI) BS 10008:2008 ‘Evidential weight and legal admissibility of information stored electronically’.

The purpose of the Rostering Policy is to ensure that service user’s safety is the primary objective of all Trust rosters. All rosters have to ensure that the staffing level and skill mix required for the safe and appropriate care of service users is available at all times;. The roster must ensure a fair and equitable distribution of shifts to all colleagues