Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups

Policies and Procedures

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Clinical
General
Human Resources
Health & Safety
Finance
Medicines Management
Professional Affairs

Please note: NHS Greater Manchester policies and procedures are available on a separate page - please click here.

Infection Control guidelines and policies are available here.

Clinical
Title	Date
Consent to Examination or Treatment Policy	Apr 2010

General
Title	Date
Best Clinical Practice	Jan 2008
Complaints*	Nov 2009
Data Protection and Confidentiality Policy	2010
Domestic Abuse - Staff Guidelines	Sept 2010
Equity and Choice Policy - Adults	March 2011
Freedom of Information	August 2011
Incident Management inc Management of Serious Untoward Incidents (SUI)	Sept 2009
Individual Funding Requests Policy	June 2011
Information Governance Policy	December 2011
Information Security Policy	March 2012
Intellectual Property Policy	Nov 2006
Media Policy*	Sep 2007
Patient Information Policy*	Jul 2007
Policy Development Policy	July 2009
Procurement Strategy	Jan 2010
Procurement Operational Policy	Jan 2010
Procurement Contestability Guidance	Jan 2010
Raising concerns under the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (Whistleblowing) Policy	July 2009
Records Archiving Procedure	May 2011
Records Disposal and Destruction Procedure	December 2010
Records Management Policy Records Management Strategy Records Management Procedure	Oct 2010 Oct 2010 Sept2010
Records Retention Schedules Policy • Health records retention schedules (PDF, 555K) • Business and corporate (non-health) records retention schedule (PDF, 430K)	December 2010
Research Governance Policy	July 2008
Research Misconduct & Fraud Policy	Dec 2005
Risk Management Policy	July 2010
Risk Management Strategy	March 2009
Sponsorship policy *	July 2007
Standards of Business Conduct and Commercial Sponsorship policy	NHS GM policy
Volunteer Policy*	Sept 2008
Serious Incident Commissioning Policy	March 2011
* These policies are due for review but will continue to apply until harmonisation of policies within the Greater Manchester Cluster.

Human Resources
Title	Date
Capability Policy*	May 2008
Career Break Policy	September 2010
Charter for Staff Specialists*	Sep 2006
Christmas Eve Arrangements*	Dec 2006
Dignity and Respect at Work Policy*	June 2009
Disagreement Policy*	Mar 2008
Disciplinary Policy*	July 2009
Doctors & Dentist Disciplinary Framework	March 2010
Domestic Abuse Employee Policy	January 2011
Equal Opportunities Policy*	July 2008
Flexible Working Policy*	Dec 2007
KSF Performance and Development Review Policy*	March 2011
Job Share Policy*	Dec 2007
Managing Allegations Against Staff Working with Children & Young People.	June 2010
Managing Allegations Against Staff Working with Children & Young People (Guidance for Safer Working Practices)	June 2010
Managing Attendance Policy*	May 2008
Mandatory Training and Induction Policy*	July 2010
Maternity Policy*	July 2008
Organisational Change, Redundancy, Redeployment and Protection of Pay and Conditions of Service*	July 2009
Redeployment Policy	September 2010
Retirement Policy	Jan 2008
Social Networking Websites, Personal Websites and Weblogs Policy	September 2010
Special Leave Policy*	Dec 2007
Term Time & Annualised Hours Policy*	Mar 2008
TOIL / Flexitime Policy*	May 2008
* These policies are due for review but will continue to apply until harmonisation of HR policies within the Greater Manchester Cluster.

Health and Safety
Title	Date
Asbestos Management Policy	May 2011
Asbestos Management Plan	May 2011
Display Screen Equipment Policy	Mar 2010
Health & Safety Policy	July 2010
Lone Worker Policy	Jul 2008
Management of Contractors Policy	July 2011
Security Policy	June 2009
Tackling Stress at Work	July 2009
Waste Management Policy	July 2011
Manual Handling Policy	Sept 2010
Pest Policy	June 2011
Laundry Policy	June 2011
Fire Precautions Policy	March 2009
First Aid at Work	March 2010
Driving for Work	March 2010
Spillage of Blood and other Bodily Fluids Policy	June 2011
Food Policy	May 2011

Finance
Title	Date
Counter Fraud	Jun 2009
NHS Manchester Scheme of Delegation	August 2011
Scheme of Delegation - NHS GM procedure
Standing Orders - NHS GM procedure
Standing Financial Instructions - NHS GM procedure

Medicines Management
Title	Date
Medicines Policy	2011
Security of Prescriptions - Appendix B	June 2011
Do Not Prescribe List	Aug 2011
Medicines Transcribing Guidelines	2011
Antibiotic Guidelines	2011
Asthma Guidelines	2010
COPD Guidelines (Currently under review)	2006
Diabetes Guidelines	2010
Hypertension Guidelines	Nov 2011
Hyperlipidaemia Guidelines	2010
Red/Amber/Green Drug List
Secondary Prevention of CHD	2008
Non-Medical Prescribing Policy	Jan 2009

Professional Affairs
Title	Date
Procedure for Identifying and Managing Concerns in relation to Primary Care Contractors	October 2011