Policies, Procedures and Strategies
Corporate policies
The following documents define what our organisation does and how we do it. Clear policies and procedures support effective decision making and delegation because they provide guidelines on what people can and cannot do, what decisions they can make and what activities are appropriate.
Clinical policies
- Allegations Policy
- Care Pathway Policy
- Chaperone Policy
- Clinical Audit Policy
- Clinical Passenger Observer Policy and Procedure
- Clinical Photography Policy
- Clinical Supervision During Training Policy
- Clinical Supervision Policy
- Consent to Examination and Treatment Policy
- Controlled Drug Policy
- Corporate Induction Policy
- Domestic Abuse Policy
- Emergency Care Assistants Policy
- Infection, Prevention Control and Decontamination Policy
- Mandatory Training Policy
- Medicines Management Policy
- Mental Capacity Act
- Mental Health Policy
- Patient Clinical Record Policy
- Prevent Policy
- Resuscitation Policy
- Safeguarding Adults Policy
- Safeguarding Children Policy
- Specialist Practitioner Policy
- Stroke Care Policy
Corporate policies
- Additional employment policy
- Adverse incident reporting and investigation policy
- Central alerts policy
- Claims management policy
- Constitution
- Code of conduct for employees in respect of confidentiality
- Confidentiality policy
- Data protection policy
- Demand management plan
- Driving policy
- Duty of candour policy
- Fire and emergency response policy
- Freedom of information policy
- Information governance policy
- Information governance strategy
- Lifecycle policy
- Lifecycle strategy
- Patient and public experience policy
- Risk management strategy
- Safe haven policy
- Serious incident requiring investigation policy
- VIP celebrity and visitor access policy
- Waste management policy
Health and safety policies
- Alcohol drugs and work policy
- Asbestos management policy and procedure
- Bariatric policy
- Closed circuit television policy
- Control of substances hazardous to health policy
- Display screen equipment policy
- Employment of young persons at work policy
- First aid policy
- Freedom to speak up
- Health and Safety policy and procedures
- Home working policy
- Lone working policy
- Minimal lifting policy
- New or expectant mothers policy
- Personal protective equipment policy
- Reporting of injuries diseases and dangerous occurrences regulations policy
- Security policy
- Slips, trips and falls policy
- Smoke free policy
- Violence and aggression policy
Human resources policies
- Annual leave policy
- Business continuity policy
- Capability policy
- Dignity at work policy
- Discipline and conduct policy
- Disclosure and barring service policy and guidance
- Driving under emergency conditions framework and procedure for staff with diabetes
- Equal opportunities policy
- Employment break scheme
- Exit Procedure
- Flexible working policy
- Freedom to speak up
- Grievance policy
- Injury allowance procedure
- Maternity paternity adoption and shared parental leave policy
- Overtime policy
- Paid unpaid leave policy
- Pay protection policy
- Pre-employment checks procedure
- Probationary policy
- Recruitment policy
- Reservist policy
- Secondment agreement policy
- Sickness absence policy
- Stress policy
Finance policies
- Anti-fraud and bribery policy response plan for detection and prevention of fraud and bribery
- Authorisation guide for managers and staff
- Capital business cases submission and approval process
- Disposal of trust assets
- Environmental Policy
- Grey fleet policy
- Guide for managers and staff on disposals of trust assets
- Guide for managers and staff on the authority to incur expenditure and related financial matters
- Fuel cards
- Lease car scheme policy
- Northern House parking policy
- Policy for entering into service agreements for new business including variations to existing agreements
- Staff action on the detection and prevention of fraud and corruption policy
- Standards of business conduct and conflict of interest policy
- Standing financial instructions
- Standing order reservation and delegation of powers and standing financial instructions
- Tendering and quotation procedure
- Treasury management policy investment of surplus cash
Operations policies
Information management & technology policies
Equality Impact Assessments
The Trust assesses the impact of each of its policies for equality and diversity.
Clinical equality impact assessments
- EIA Care pathways policy
- EIA Clinical supervision during training policy
- EIA Clinical supervision policy
- EIA Corporate and induction policy
- EIA Emergency care practitioners policy
- EIA Latex sensitivity policy
- EIA Medicines management policy
- EIA Mental capacity act policy
- EIA Obsteric care policy
- EIA Paediatric care policy
- EIA Patient clinical records policy
- EIA Resuscitation, recognition of life extinct DNACPR/ACP policy
- EIA Review of clinical guidelines policy
- EIA Safeguarding children and adults policy
- EIA Statutory and mandatory training policy
Corporate equality impact assessments
- EIA Adverse incident and-reporting-and-investigation policy
- EIA Central alerting system policy
- EIA Claims policy
- EIA Code of conduct for employees in respect of confidentiality
- EIA Compliments, comments, concerns and complaints policy
- EIA Confidentiality policy
- EIA Data protection policy
- EIA Driving and care of trust vehicles
- EIA External reviews policy
- EIA Feature application procedure
- EIA Fire safety policy
- EIA Freedom of information policy
- EIA information governance strategy
- EIA Lifecycle policy
- EIA Lifecycle strategy
- EIA Medical devices
- EIA Risk management strategy
- EIA Safe haven policy
- EIA Trust review policies and procedures for implementation and review
Human equality impact assessments
- Please note: The Human Resources Equality Impact Assessments are appended to each individual HR policy.
Finance equality impact assessments
- EIA Capital business cases
- EIA Disposal of trust assets
- EIA Employee car ownership
- EIA Environmental policy
- EIA Estates strategy
- EIA Expenditure authority
- EIA Guide for managers and staff on disposals of trust assets
- EIA Guide for managers and staff on the authority to incur expenditure and related financial matters
- EIA Fuel Cards
- EIA Policy for entering into service agreements for new businesses including variations to existing agreements
- EIA Staff action on the detection and prevention of fraud and corruption
- EIA Standing financial instructions
- EIA Treasury management policy – investment of surplus cash
Operations equality impact assessments
- Please note: most of the Operations Equality Impact Assessments are appended to each individual HR policy.
- Governance Framework for Community Responders EIA