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Management of Constipation within Specialist Palliative Care v4 (exp Mar 28) MMG034 | 423KB PDF | The aim of this guidance is to aid clinical decision making when assessing and managing constipation within specialist palliative care. | 27 Mar 2025 |
Management of dental patients with conscious sedation v4.2 (exp Sept 27) MMPr026 | 788KB PDF | Procedures for the pre-treatment, treatment and post treatment episodes for dental patients requiring conscious sedation. | 05 Jun 2025 |
Management of Patients on Oral Anticoagulation (exp Sept 26) MMG030 | 338KB PDF | To provide guidance on the management of patients prescribed oral anticoagulants to reduce the risk of harm from incorrect prescribing administration or monitoring of oral anticoagulation. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Medical Gases Operational Policy (exp Oct 26) MMP020 | 732KB PDF | This policy is intended to give safe systems of working with medical gases to all staff involved with MGPS and medical gas cylinders used throughout NHFT. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Medicines Reconciliation and re-use of patients own medicines in Custody Suites (Review Jul 25) MMPr020 | 371KB PDF | This protocol is used to support the Custody Healthcare Practitioner (CHP) in the administration of detainees own medications for which there were existing prescriptions prior to their arrest and detention. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital protocol v4 (exp Nov 26) MMpr034 | 734KB PDF | This protocol defines the medicines reconciliation (MR) process for NHFT to reduce preventable medication errors on admission to hospital or transfer between hospital units, and discharge to primary care | 23 Jan 2025 |
MMPr039 Protocol for the administration of medication by HRAs AND HRTs in ICT (Sep22-Sep25).pdf | 594KB PDF | The protocol is applicable in community situations where Healthcare Rehabilitation Assistants (RAs) and Healthcare Rehabilitation Technicians (RTs) are required to provide support to patients to self-administer, prompt / assist patients to self-administer, or to administer medication to patients, without the direct supervision of a registered health care professional from within the Intermediate Care Team. | 23 Jan 2025 |
NHFT Symptom Management Guidelines for a Person thought to be in the last days and hours of life v4 (exp Mar 28) MMG035 | 327KB PDF | These guidelines are for the management of common symptoms for a person thought to be in the last few days and hours of life. | 23 Apr 2025 |
Non-Medical Prescribing Protocol (exp Mar 26) v4.1 MMPr032 | 698KB PDF | The aim of this protocol is to outline Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trusts (NHFT) processes and quality assurance for Non-medical Prescribing. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Podiatric Surgery – Peri Operative Management of Diabetic Patient (exp Mar 27) MMPr022 | 494KB PDF | This document outlines the Podiatric Surgery protocol developed to support peri-operative practice with regards to the Diabetic patient. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Podiatric Surgery – Prevention of VTE and bridging (exp Mar 27) MMPr017 | 915KB PDF | This document outlines the podiatric surgery protocol developed to support the prevention of VTE. | 05 Jun 2025 |
Podiatric Surgery Protocol: Local Anaesthesia & Cortico-Steroid Injection Therapy v11.1 (exp Mar 27) MMPr018 | 538KB PDF | This document outlines the podiatric surgery protocol developed to support the practice of local anaesthesia. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Policy for Primary Thromboprophylaxis for Patients admitted to NHFT (exp Mar 28) MMP016 | 810KB PDF | The purpose of this policy is to aid clinical decision-making regarding primary thromboprophylaxis for VTE. | 20 May 2025 |
Policy for the use of controlled stationery - FP10 Prescription Forms (exp Sept 27) MMP005 | 1061KB PDF | This Policy is to ensure that patients in need of immediate treatment can be issued with a prescription that can be taken to a community pharmacy of their choice, and to ensure that a secure system is in place for the ordering, storage and use of FP10 prescription pads. | 04 Feb 2025 |
Prescribing Guideline for Oral Systemic Anti Cancer therapies (exp Sept 26) MMG019 | 309KB PDF | The purpose of this guidance is to provide a framework of the process to follow if a patient who is receiving a systemic oral anti-cancer drug is admitted to an inpatient area. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Procedure ACHS Community Nursing - Administration of medications by Non-registered Staff (Review May 25) MMPr042 | 344KB PDF | This Procedure aims to provide a framework for Non-registered staff to use in order to administer medicines. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Procedure for administration of ketamine for treatment resistant depression v3.1 (May22-Jul25) MMPr028 | 1392KB PDF | This protocol defines the use of Ketamine as a therapeutic agent for treatment resistant depression (TRD) in Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). | 16 May 2025 |
Procedure for handling of patients own medicines (exp Nov 26) MMPr014 | 345KB PDF | This procedure is intended to provide clear and standardised guidance on the use of Patient’s Own Drugs with NHFT inpatient areas. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Procedure for the development, authorisation, use and review of Patient Group Directions v4.2 (exp May 25) MMPr023 | 1286KB PDF | To define a system and process for use when managers of Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust services are considering the need for, developing, authorising, using and reviewing PGDs. | 23 Jan 2025 |
Procedure for the Handling & Administration of Medical Gases (exp Sept 26) MMPr036 | 1133KB PDF | Subordinate to the Medical Gases Operational Policy Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust issues procedure for the handling and administration of medical gases to ensure patient safety. | 23 Jan 2025 |