This is a shared policy across Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Key words: Bed Rails Adults, Integrated Policy Integrated Version: 14 Community Equipment Adopted by: Quality Assurance Committee (LPT) Services, and Date adopted: 2016 University Hospitals of Name of LPT Victoria Peach, Lead Nurse – originator/author: Community Services Leicester. The UHL Mandy Gilhespie Mandy – – document Specialist Nurse for Discharge ICES Julie Morley, Commissioning – describes the Manager standards for Name of responsible Clinical Effectiveness Group committee: the safe use of Date issued for March 2016 bed rails. publication: Review date: September 2017 Expiry date: February 2018 Target audience: All staff assessing patients / service users for the use of bed rails and working with patients / service users with bed rails Type of Policy Clinical Date Revision NHSLA Risk Management Standards if applicable: 00Relevant CQC Regulation 15: Premises and Equipment. Standards: Regulation 12: Safe Care and Treatment. Regulation 9: Person Centred Care By Whom Version 13.04.15 Updates as agreed by Bed Rail Task & JEM 1 Finish to integrate LPT and ICES Bed Rail Policy 21.04.15 LPT considerations amended by Lead VP 2 Nurse. Formatting and grammar changes made.
Key words: Bed Rails Adults, Integrated Policy Version: 14 Adopted by: Quality Assurance Committee (LPT) Date adopted: 2016 Name of originator/author: LPT – Victoria Peach, Lead Nurse Community Services UHL – Mandy Gilhespie Mandy – Specialist Nurse for Discharge ICES – Julie Morley, Commissioning Manager Name of responsible committee: Clinical Effectiveness Group Date issued for publication: March 2016 Review date: September 2017 Expiry date: February 2018 Target audience: All staff assessing patients / service users for the use of bed rails and working with patients / service users with bed rails Type of Policy Clinical NHSLA Risk Management Standards if applicable: 00Relevant CQC Standards: Regulation 15: Premises and Equipment. Regulation 12: Safe Care and Treatment. Regulation 9: Person Centred Care This is a shared policy across Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Integrated Community Equipment Services, and University Hospitals of Leicester. The document describes the standards for the safe use of bed rails. Date Revision By Whom Version 13.04.15 Updates as agreed by Bed Rail Task & Finish to integrate LPT and ICES Bed Rail Policy JEM 1 21.04.15 LPT considerations amended by Lead Nurse. Formatting and grammar changes made. VP 2
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