Medicines – Prescribing and Initiation of Treatment
A procedure that helps to ensure: personalised care through the effective prescribing of medicines and safe prescriptions of medicines.
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Verification and registration of health care employees (Professional Registration) procedure
This procedure supports the Trust to demonstrate the NHS Employers Employment Check Standards – Professional Registration and Qualification Checks and the requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure that all regulated professionally registered staff have their registration both verified at recruitment and throughout employment with their appropriate regulatory bodies.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Clinical
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Information Asset Register Procedure
This procedure describes what you need to do to safeguard Trust information assets in line with the Information Security and Risk Policy.
Category: Procedures
Topic: IT
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Reasonable Adjustments Procedure
During their employment with the Trust, staff may need workplace adjustments and support to maximise their full potential and keep them at work. The Trust is committed to being a great place to work for all employees: an inclusive, equal opportunities employer in which diversity is welcomed, valued and viewed by all as positive. This procedure details the Trust's position.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Human Resources
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Shared care guidelines first generation antipsychotic long acting injections
This document outlines all the information needed to prescribe this injection. Which medical condition and doses required.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
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Methadone buprenorphine in patient prescribing guideline
The aim of this document is to provide guidance to doctors and other clinicians on the prescribing aspects of methadone or buprenorphine.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
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STOMP medication Review Pathway
This document outlines the pathway for STOMP which is an acronym for stopping over medication of people with a learning disability, autism or both with psychotropic medicines.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
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Alcohol Withdrawal Management Pathway
This document puts the results of the trust’s alcohol detoxification process into the format of a clinical algorithm.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
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Patient own drugs (PODs) procedure for use
Following this procedure will help the Trust to ensure safe management and appropriate use of Patients Own Drugs (PODs) and improve continuity of care for patients in relation to medicines.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
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Non medical prescribers (NMPs) procedure to access training
The purpose of this procedure will help the trust to assist in the identification of appropriate candidates to train as an NMP and to ensure inappropriate access to training does not take place.
Category: Procedures
Topic: Pharmacy
