Policies and procedures – Guidance for Writers
The purpose of this policy is to promote and enable a consistent and systematic approach to developing and writing policies, procedures, protocols throughout the Trust.
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Learning from Deaths Policy
The purpose of this policy is to set out the Trusts expectation / principles on how it responds to deaths in our care and identifies the scope of review for each death and how the trust will learn from them.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Intellectual Property Policy
This policy provides an outline for the effective identification, protection, and management, of innovations and any associated Intellectual Property.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Information Governance Policy
Information governance defines how the Trust handles information, particularly personal and sensitive information about patients, service users, staff and confidential business information.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Incident Recording and Response Policy
This policy informs staff of their roles and responsibilities in the process of reporting, managing and reviewing all incidents involving patients, staff and or visitors.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Governance of Policies, Procedures, Protocols and Guidelines
This policy defines how documents are developed and governed to ensure these goals have been considered, and that the goals and Trust values are reflected in their wording.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate
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Equality Impact Assessment Policy
Equality analysis helps the Trust manage its impact on equality. Having a policy and guidance in place further supports this and helps Trust staff consider equality when they make decisions that are going to impact on people from different groups.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Equality Impact Assessment Guidance
The aim of this guidance is to provide additional support to Trust staff who may find themselves responsible for conducting equality analysis.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Duty of Candour Policy
This policy, as well as informing staff of their role in relation to Duty of Candour informs service users, relatives and carers of what they can expect from the professionals involved if something goes wrong with the care and treatment we provided.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
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Complaints Policy
This document outlines the Trust’s commitment to dealing with concerns or complaints and provides information about how we manage, respond and learn from the complaints about our services.
Category: Policies
Topic: Corporate, Governance and legal
