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Provide employees with suitable guidance to manage and control the risks to health from substances subject to COSHH and thereby reduce the risk to our employees, patients, visitors, and contractors in compliance of the regulations

The core objectives for secure services are to assess and treat mental disorder, reduce the risk of harm that an individual exhibits to others and to support recovery (Appendix 1: NHS Standard Contract for Medium and Low Secure Mental Health Services). The service addresses need associated with a diverse and complex degree of underlying disorders with some being persistent over the lifespan.

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.

The purpose of this policy is to provide a flexible and reflective approach to the assessment and management for patients who present with previous or current self-harming behaviour within care services. It enables all practitioners to offer evidence-based interventions and care for such individuals through a comprehensive, research-based approach. This will inform individual support and care plans which will direct consistent staff approach and interventions.

Standing Financial Instructions detail the financial responsibilities, policies and procedures adopted by the Trust.

Trust procedure for undertaking equality monitoring for colleagues and patients / service users

An Advance Statement is a document that gives patients and service users the opportunity to write down how they would like to be treated should they become unwell in the future

This policy outlines the approach to take to manage and implement organisational change