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For service requests and faulty equipment please email callout@bcasbiomed.co.uk giving make, model and serial number of equipment and please include the Asset Number. Please note, there…
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A fresh perspective on flu NHS Cheshire and Merseyside has developed a podcast and a series of short videos to encourage flu vaccine uptake among frontline health and social care staff. The…
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Learn more about a restorative justice culture and what it means for us in Mersey Care. Just and Learning is endorsed by the Trust's Board of Directors as one of our quality improvement…
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What is the Physical Health In Reach Hub? The Hub includes a range of allied health professions / physical health specialists: Speech and language therapists Physiotherapists Nutrition…
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An alert notice is a way for an NHS employer to make other bodies aware that a healthcare professional may pose a threat to service users or staff to reduce the risk of the healthcare professional…
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SA45 Learning from Deaths
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the Trust sets out in place how it responds to the deaths of patients who die under its management and care. It will ensure that the Board of Directors takes a systematic approach to the issue of potential avoidable mortality and have robust mortality governance processes in place to ensure the delivery of safe care.
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SD34 Venepuncture Policy
This document clarifies the responsibility of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust clinicians and establishes the standards in respect of the theory and practice of venepuncture
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HR-G9 Management of Allegations Against People in a Position of Trust (PIPOT) within Children and Adult Services
Mersey Care Mersey Care colleagues should be familiar with the process which must be followed for considering information arising from an allegation or concern about the behaviour of any employee working either directly or indirectly with children or vulnerable adult(s)
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HR38 Medical Workforce Acting Down Protocol
The purpose of the Medical Workforce Acting Down Protocol is to provide guidance for medical staff when unexpected absences occur and alternative cover is required
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HR45 - Appraisal Personal Achievement Contribution Evaluation PACE
THIS POLICY DESCRIBES THE APPRAISAL PROCESS WITHIN MCFT. IT ENABLES MANAGERS AND COLLEAGUES TO UNDERSTAND ITS PURPOSE AS A METHOD OF IDENTIFYING AREAS FOR INDIVIDUAL GROWTH, OBJECTIVESETTING, INFORMING PAY STEP PROGRESSION, SUCCESSION PLANNING AND ITS COMPLIANCE AS A TRUST KPI.
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IT16 Social Media
This policy is a set of guidelines for using social media to ensure all staff know what they are allowed to and prohibited from sharing and/or posting on social media channels in order to protect themselves, the Trust and its patients.
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SA16 Cleaning Standards Policy
To ensure that premises are cleaned and maintained to the highest possible standard, minimising the risk of infection and contributing to a visible impression of quality, in accordance with NHS national standards and guidelines.
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SD02 Policy Following the Death of a Person in the Care of Mersey Care (Patient / Service User)
The way staff manage the death of a Service User and how they support relatives is set out in this policy and procedure. The effective management of a death and the support provided to their families is of primary importance and can help all those involved gain resolution and come to terms with their loss in a safe and natural way. This Policy has been developed to provide a systematic approach to maintaining compliance with all guidance on this area. The Francis Report outlined several standards that should be met when a person who has been receiving in-patient care dies which relate to the certification of death and the assessment of whether all could have been done to either prevent the death or improve on the care of that person during the terminal stages of their life. The same standards also apply to Service Users in the community
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SA18 CCTV
The purpose of this policy is to ensure that the use of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) adheres to the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998, The General Data Protection Regulations 2018, Human Rights Act 1998, and other relevant legislation. That the good practice set out in the Information Commissioner’s CCTV Code of Practice is followed, where appropriate and that any CCTV system is not abused or misused and that CCTV is correctly and efficiently installed and operated
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IT06 Health Records Policy
Policy is issued as a framework to support Information Governance and effective health records management.