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Class 8. Policies and Procedures

ADMINISTRATION

• Complaints Policy and Procedure
  
  • Freedom of Information and Data Protection Acts Complaints Procedure
    
• Data Protection
  
• Environmental
  
• Estates Development Strategy
  
• Fire Policy
  
• Freedom of Information Policy
  
• Freedom of Information Procedure
  
• Handling Habitual or Vexatious Complainants
  
• Health and Social Care Records Policy and Procedures
  
• Hospitality Policy
  
• Media Relations Policy
  
• Policy for Managing Personal Injury, Social Care, Human Resources, Property Expenses and Clinical Negligence Claims
  
• Policy for Reporting and Investigating Incidents (April 2006)
  
• Response to serious incidents involving/relating to Service Users (April 2006)
  
• Security
  
• Supervision Policy
  
• Translation Policy
  
• Transport
  
  
  

HEALTH AND SAFETY

• Alcohol and Drugs at Work
  
• COSHH Guidance (Hazardous Substances)
  
• Display Screen Equipment
  
• Handling and Moving Policy
  
• Health and Safety Policy (July 2006)
  
• Latex (July 2006)
  
• Lone Workers
  
• Mercury
  
• Preventing and Responding to Violence and Aggression
  
• Smoking in the Workplace (July 2006)
  

INFECTION CONTROL

• Hand Hygiene Policy
  
• Management of Individuals/ Patients in Hospital, colonised or infected with Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)
  
• Blood Borne Viruses Policy
  
• Code of Practice (July 2006)
  
• Hand Hygiene Policy
  
• HPA Infection Control Procedures for Community Settings
  
• Isolation Policy
  
• Laundry and Linen Policy
  
• Management of Viral Gastroenteritis Policy
  
• MRAS Policy Standard Precautions Policy
  
• Tuberculosis Policy
  
  

I.T. POLICIES

• E mail and Internet Acceptable Use Policy
  
• IT Security Policy
  
  
  
  

HUMAN RESOURCES

• For a list of human resources policies, please click here
  
  
  

The Trust follows the Care Practice Procedures listed below:

PRACTICE GUIDELINES / PROCEDURES MANUAL - GENERAL SECTION

1. Basic Life Support:
   • Adult
   • Paediatric
2. Alcohol and drug testing
3. Care Coordination
4. Service User Identification
5. Discharge from Service Procedure
6. Guidance on competencies in new techniques
7. Emergency overdose cases – CAMHS
8. Physical Interventions and Care Nursing Policies/Procedures
9. Removed – to be reallocated
10. Patient requests for Second Medical Opinion
11. Guidelines on the use of advocacy services
12. Safeguarding Adults
13. Non compliance with treatment regimes
14. Guardianship
15. Personal relationships and sexuality – a procedure for services to adults with learning disabilities
16. Disclosure of Personal Information to the Police
17. Referral for a forensic opinion
18. Complementary Medicine/Therapies
19. Clinical Risk Assessment & Management Policy (inc. 6 support documents)
20. Section 117
21. Staff guidance on dealing with Uninvited Legal Representatives
22. Supervised Discharge - Policy
23. Taking of photographs and video films
24. Allocation of patients to multidisciplinary teams
25. Advanced Directives
26. Violent, unnatural and sudden death
27. Independent Mental Capacity Advocates
28. Supervision Policy – also in Yellow Policy Folder, Admin Section-Policy No. 8
29. Transition of Care Protocols
30. Social Circumstances Reports
31. Defibrillation Policy
32. Bournewood
33. ASW Management Statement
34. Social Care Pathway
35. Proposals and standards for the development and validation of care pathways
36. Protection of Service Users Property
37. Emergency Oxygen Guidelines
38. Child Protection Policy & Child Protection Toolkit
39. Do not Attempt Resuscitation
41. Copying Letters to Patients Policy
42. Mobile Phones in the inpatient and community areas
43. MCA Decision Tool

PRACTICE GUIDELINES / PROCEDURES MANUAL - IN-PATIENT SECTION

1. To be re-allocated
2. Admission of violent/potentially violent offenders
3. To be re-allocated
4. Management of Active substance Misuse
5. Conveying to Hospital
6. Control and Restraint – Wotton Lawn
7. Deployment of internal pagers within psychiatric unit
8. Self discharge from Hospital
9. Discharge from In-patient procedure
10. Emergency equipment checklist and procedure on routine inspection
11. Guidance on dogs in hospital buildings
12. Guidelines on detained inpatients to whom the Sex Offenders Act 1997 applies
13. Positive Response Training Policy
14. Directions of Choice
15. Incidents involving Hostage taking within inpatient settings
16. In the event of a patient locking themselves in their room
17. Access by solicitors to patients case notes
18. Transfer to a non GPT Hospital
19. Policy on using bedrails safely and effectively
20. Removed – to be reallocated
21. Patients leave
22. Medical emergency (8 documents)
23. Removed – to be reallocated
24. Missing Persons (AWOL)
25. Observation guidelines
26. Removed – to be reallocated
27. Patient voting
28. Patients using cars whilst an In-patient
29. Psychiatric emergencies – Charlton Lane
30. Psychiatric emergencies – Wotton Lawn
31. Removed – to be reallocated
32. Reception and detention of people under Section.136 of the Mental Health Act 1983
33. To be reallocated
34. Searching patients and their property
35. Self referral to Gloucestershire Partnership Trust Hospitals
36. Removed – to be reallocated
37. Time out
38. Visiting arrangements Guidelines
39. Visiting of psychiatric patients by children
40. Operational Policy for Young People Receiving Care and Treatment in Adult In-Patient Settings
41. Physical Examination in Inpatients Settings
42. Management of Violence
43. Seclusion policy
    
    
    

INTERNAL GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS

The 2gether NHS Foundation Trust has also adopted the following internal guidance documents:

• Inpatient Integrated Care Pathway
  
• Policy for Ordering, Prescribing and Administration of Medicine (POPAM)
  February 2007

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