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Policy aimed at those working within the Longmoor House, to explain the responsibilities relating to patient property and to outline good practice and process for the safe keeping and management of patient property whilst maintaining a safe environment and protecting vulnerable patients who may be at risk of potential harm.

To provide guidance and support in respect of accepting patients in the event of a major incident or mass casualty incident

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 document provides Trust staff working on wards with guidance about the use of Rapid Tranquillisation. It determines the main provisions of appropriate use of Rapid Tranquillisation, use of associated medication and the roles and responsibilities of staff to ensure a consistently safe and effective approach to the use of rapid tranquillisation for the shortterm management of violence and aggression; ensuring that patients are informed at each stage of the process and if treatment is necessary ensures that individuals are treated with dignity and respect.

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 policy provides clear guidance to staff on what to do in order to ensure that service users in receipt of care and treatment provided by the Trust are correctly identified.

This policy and procedure will provide guidance to community staff in the actions that should be taken when they identify that service users have access to weapons. This policy and procedure has been developed in association with the Police and provides direction as to the issues that should be considered prior to making risk management decisions. The policy separates action into urgent and non urgent.

The Discharge Medicines Service enables NHS Trusts to send referrals direct to the nominated community pharmacy of patients who are eligible and would benefit from extra guidance around newly prescribed medicines, including a copy of the patient's discharge prescription, aiming to reduce re-admissions to hospital. The automated referral process and eligibility are determined in this SOP.

Guidance on the Role and Effective Use of Chaperones in Primary and Community Care settings

Data Protection Impact Assessment Template