Policies and Procedures - NHS Derby City

County policies currently sit on a SharePoint website – click here. However this is only accessible from NHS premises and computers.  If you cannot access the site, please contact us at FOI@derbyshirecountypct.nhs.uk to request information about County policies.

The policies listed below are for NHS Derby City. Updated policies cover both City and County.

C

• Claims Handling Policy
• Close Personal Relationships at Work
• Cluster Standing Orders (SOs) | Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) | Scheme Of Delegation And Authority Limits - July 2012
• Competition Policy
• Complaints Handling Policy - City PCT
• Complaints Handling Policy - County PCT
• Complaints - Persistent Complainants Policy
• COSHH Policy

D

• Decisions reserved for the Board and Schemes of Delegation
• Derbyshire Subfertility Policy
• Development and Management of Organisationwide Procedural Documents
• Display Screen Equipment

E

• Environment Waste Management Policy

F

• Fire Safety Policy
• Freedom of Speech

G

• Guidelines for Writing Witness Statements or Giving Evidence in Court

H

• Health Safety and Welfare at Work Policy

I

• Individual Funding Request Policy
• IVF policy

K

• Knowledge Management Strategy

M

• Management of Security and Safety in the Workplace
• Manual Handling in the Workplace
• Market Management Strategy
• Mobile Computing Policy

O

• Occuaptional Road Risk Policy
• Organisational Change And Redundancy Policy

P

• Patient and Public Involvement Payments
• Pharmaceutical Sponsorship Policy For Working With Non-NHS Organisations
• Purchasing of Computer Equipment
• Procedures for document creation | filing

R

• Risk Management Strategy | EIA

S

• Safeguarding Children Policy - NHS Derby City and NHS Derbyshire
• SFIs and SOs Scheme of Delegation
• Standards of Business Conduct
• Staff code of Confidentiality

V

• Violence and Aggression in the workplace policy

W

• Whistleblowing Policy

POLICY FOR PROCEDURES OF LIMITED CLINICAL VALUE

NHS Derby City is your local Primary Care Trust (PCT) and is responsible for planning and paying for health services for the people of Derby. We have a duty to spend public money on services and treatment that benefit as many people as possible: this therefore also means agreeing on treatments which are not funded. This may be because there is limited evidence that they are effective, or that the small amount of health improvement the patient may see could be outweighed by a particular risk posed to their health.

It is vital that PCTs ensure that public money is being spent as wisely as possible. A policy for ‘procedures of limited clinical value’, has therefore been agreed by NHS Derby City, based on international evidence and the opinions of clinicians and medical bodies in the UK.  This means certain operations and treatments will no longer be funded on the NHS, including some cosmetic procedures and others which may pose more risk than benefit to a particular patient’s health.  Other procedures will be offered to patients at a later stage, or only when other courses of treatment have been followed. We are keen to reassure patients that this about making sure that treatments are effective, not about stopping treatments that are beneficial.

While some doctors are already following some of the guidance, the policy is designed to ensure that doctors are clear exactly what treatment they should be referring patients for. This will reduce variations between doctors, improve quality, and mean a more equitable, fairer system for patients.

• Commissioning Policy for Procedures of Limited Clinical Value