title: Safeguarding people who are at risk of abuse.
abstract: Until recently, adult safeguarding policies at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust did not cover domestic abuse, except in maternity services. While trying to remedy this deficit, the trust discovered several problems in information sharing and data protection, which led to consideration of how safeguarding alerts are handled and processed on patient arrival. This article explains how the trust solved these problems by setting up a safeguarding log to alert staff to at-risk patients.
authors.affiliation: Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. jeanette.welsh@glos.nhs.uk
authors.forename: Jeanette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Welsh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination / Q000379:methods*; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D035862:Vulnerable Populations