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Occupational Health Department Health Assessment Questionnaire for Night Workers

This procedure outlines mandatory legal and ethical considerations involved in the prescribing, use and administration of high-dose antipsychotics. It determines the roles, responsibilities and processes for the use of high dose antipsychotics Trust Wide.

This plan sets out the criteria for identifying and declaring an outbreak along with the process for establishing and running an Outbreak Control Team

This guidance is to ensure a consistency of approach in the practice of managing medicines incidents at a divisional and trust level.

Procedure to be followed when the death of an inpatient occurs to ensure that the Trust and individual medical practitioners meet their statutory requirements under the new Medical Certificate of Cause of Death and Medical Examiner Regulations (2024)

To support safe systems of work and summarise control processes associated with permitted activities in relation to operational estate management

This procedure is designed to give clarity and guidance around assessment, treatment and management of patients within the community or inpatient setting who require the administration of subcutaneous insulin.

This SOP details the obligatory steps to be undertaken when completing a Quality Impact Assessment (QIA) to assess the impact of change schemes in conjunction with an Equality Impact Assessment. This SOP illustrates the required reporting governance for Clinical Executive sign-off; providing an assurance that all relevant stakeholders have been consulted and enabled to contribute to completing the QIA. That all benefits, risks, hazards and issues have been acknowledged, and appropriate controls or actions have been identified to mitigate or remove potential impact on the Quality elements of the QIA. This process also involves predicting and assessing the implications of a change scheme for a wide range of people. Therefore, this SOP must be associated with the Trusts Equality Monitoring Policy SA40.

The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to provide a clear, consistent and proportionate approach to the decontamination of reusable medical devices across Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.