Declaration of compliance
Community Health Buckinghamshire Declaration of Compliance for Delivering Same-Sex Accommodation
Declaration of Compliance
Community Health Buckinghamshire (CHB) can confirm that mixed sex accommodation has been virtually eliminated in all of its premises. Service users who are admitted to any of our hospital settings will, in the main, access environments and care facilities that are explicitly gender specific.
Where clinical accommodation caters for both genders, service users will only share the room where they sleep with members of the same sex. Furthermore same sex toilets and bathroom areas are located close to or immediately adjacent to the bedroom areas.
CHB recognises that every service user has the right to receive high quality care that is safe, effective and respects privacy and dignity and is committed to ensuring same sex accommodation is provided at a time when service users are often at their most
vulnerable in order to safeguard individual service users’ privacy and dignity.
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NHS Buckinghamshire Declaration of Compliance in Response to the Care Quality Commission Review of NHS Arrangements to Safeguard Children
1. Background
1.1 In July 2009 the Care Quality Commission published a report of its review of safeguarding arrangements across the NHS in England. The report included the recommendation that all Trusts have robust arrangements in place to safeguard children and young people.
1.2 Following publication of this report the NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson, wrote to all NHS Trusts in England asking Boards to assure themselves on defined minimum requirements.
2. Declaration by Provider Organisations
2.1 The three major NHS providers in Buckinghamshire are:
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust (BHT)
Community Health Buckinghamshire (CHB)
Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (OBMH)
2.2 These providers have completed their own declaration of compliance with effective arrangements to safeguard children. These declarations are posted on their websites.
3. Declaration by Commissioning Organisation
3.1 The Board of NHS Buckinghamshire is assured that all requirements are in place in line with the recommendations of the Care Quality Commission to ensure that systems and processes are in place to safeguard children and young people within the following organisations from whom we commission services:
Buckinghamshire Hospitals NHS Trust (BHT)
Community Health Buckinghamshire (CHB)
Oxford and Buckinghamshire Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (OBMH)
3.2 NHS Buckinghamshire are reviewing their contract and monitoring arrangements with all primary care practitioners, including general practitioners, pharmacists, optometrists and dental practitioners, to ensure their training in safeguarding children and young people is current and that they meet all the standards required in Working Together to Safeguard Children (HM Government 2006).
3.3 NHS Buckinghamshire monitors the delivery of all safeguarding activity against the safeguarding children standards which are included within all NHS Buckinghamshire contracts. The Board of NHS Buckinghamshire receive their assurance on safeguarding children through quarterly reporting to the NHS Buckinghamshire Governance and Risk Committee and annually to the board through the Annual Report on Safeguarding Children.
3.4 The Executive Board lead for safeguarding is Dr Jane O’Grady, Director of Public Health and NHS Buckinghamshire is represented by Christine Matthews, Children’s Commissioning Officer on the Buckinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board.
