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This Risk Management Strategy outlines the responsibilities for overseeing risk management activities across the Trust, ensuring that these meet the Trust’s requirements and national standards

This policy provides information, guidance and advice on the actions required following an exposure to bodily fluids and inoculation injury to minimise the risk to colleagues of acquiring a blood borne virus

The purpose of this policy is to determine the roles, responsibilities and processes for the handling of medicines and related products for all Mersey Care staff involved in medicines-related activities.

This policy is to guide services that carry out invasive procedures in community settings. It is also to guide practitioners providing clinical care to patients within the community setting, following invasive procedures or formation of stoma within hospital settings.

This policy provides practice guidance for all Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust staff. This guidance has been developed based on the document: Reducing the risk of choking for people with a learning disability: a multi-agency review in Hampshire produced by Hampshire Safeguarding Adults Board Multi-Agency Partnership (2012) abd Supporting People at Risk of Choking Policy (2016) by Hampshire County Council. This document provides guidelines for staff to help identify when a person may be at risk of choking as well as practice guidelines regarding the choking risk pathway.

To provide best principles and practice in relation to the process that should be followed for the disposal of medical devices through the Mersey Care Foundation Trust’s (MCFT) disposal route.

This document provides the Trust’s contingency framework for managing electrical power outages and should be used alongside service Business Continuity Plans, with invocation of the Incident Response Plan (IRP00) when impacts exceed normal business continuity arrangements.

The purpose of this policy is to determine the roles, responsibilities and processes for the handling of medicines and related products for all Mersey Care staff involved in medicines-related activities.

The effective management of incidents is an integral part of the way the Trust meets its duty to minimise the risk to its service users, carers, staff and visitors, with the aim of maintaining their health and safety. This policy has been developed to provide a systematic approach to maintaining compliance with all guidance on this topic area.

This policy outlines the governance framework and procedures for Mersey Care Trust staff and associated parties when engaging with the pharmaceutical industry, Dispensing Appliance Contractors, and suppliers of prescribing-related products. The policy aims to ensure transparency, ethical conduct, and public accountability in interactions that may influence prescribing and commissioning decisions. This is a supplementary policy to the Standards of Business Conduct Policy (F04), and provides guidance specifically regarding working with pharmaceutical companies and declarations of interest which must be made