Rachael Bailie - Learning and Development Officer, North Lanarkshire
General enquires - childprotectcomm@northlan.gov.uk
Welcome to the Right Decision Service (RDS) newsletter for August 2024.
Following the recent RDS outages, Tactuum and the RDS team have been reviewing the learning from these incidents. We are committed to doing all we can to ensure a positive outcome by strengthening the RDS to make it fully robust and clinically resilient for the future.
We would like to invite you to a webinar on 26th September 3-4 pm on national and local contingency planning for future RDS outages. Tactuum and the RDS team will speak about our business continuity plans and the national contingency arrangements we are putting in place. This will also be a space to share local contingency plans, ideas and existing good practice. We would also like to gather your views on who we should send communications to in the event of future outages.
I have sent a meeting request for this date to all editors – please accept or decline to indicate attendance, and please forward on to relevant contacts. You can also contact Olivia.graham@nhs.scot directly to register your interest in participating.
2.National IV fluid prescribing calculator
This UK CA marked calculator is now live at https://righdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/ivfluids . It has been developed by a multiprofessional steering group of leads in IV fluids management, as part of the wider Modernising Patient Pathways Programme within the Centre for Sustainable Delivery. It aims to address a known cause of clinical error in hospital settings, and we hope it will be especially useful to the new junior doctors who started in August.
Please do spread the word about this new calculator and get in touch with any questions.
The following toolkits are now live;
We have updated and simplified this guidance within our standard operating procedures. We have clarified the guidance on how to determine whether an RDS tool is a medical device, and have provided an interactive powerpoint slideset to steer you through the process.
We have developed a guide to support editors and toolkit leads through the process of scoping, designing, delivering, quality assuring and implementing a new RDS toolkit. We hope this will help in project planning and in building shared understanding of responsibilities throughout the full development process. The guide emphasises that the project does not end with launch of the new toolkit. Implementation, communication and evaluation are ongoing activities throughout the lifetime of the toolkit.
To book a place, please contact Olivia.graham@nhs.scot, providing your name, organisation, job role, and level of experience with RDS editing (none, a little, moderate, extensive.)
7 Evaluation projects
Dr Stephen Biggart from NHS Lothian has kindly shared with us the results of a recent survey of use of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Anaesthesia toolkit. This shows that the majority of consultants are using it weekly or monthly, mainly to access clinical protocols, with a secondary purpose being education and training purposes. They tend to find information by navigating by specialty rather than keyword searching, and had some useful recommendations for future development, such as access to quick reference guidance.
We’d really appreciate you sharing any other local evaluations of RDS in this way – it all helps to build the evidence base for impact.
If you have any questions about the content of this newsletter, please contact his.decisionsupport@nhs.scot If you would prefer not to receive future newsletters, please email Olivia.graham@nhs.scot and ask to be removed from the circulation list.
With kind regards
Right Decision Service team
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Rachael Bailie - Learning and Development Officer, North Lanarkshire
General enquires - childprotectcomm@northlan.gov.uk
Content has been checked for accessibility in accordance with the RDS standard operating procedure.
Content has been reviewed and approved in line with the North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee governance process in September 2023.
The content will be reviewed a year from the time of publication, with September 2025 being the due date of the next review.
Unscheduled content changes will go through the North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee as required.
The content has been reviewed and signed off by Nicola McGrath, the Child Protection Coordinator for North Lanarkshire.
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The content of this toolkit is owned by North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership, and any Scottish Government Guidance included is covered by the OpenGov Licence.
All icons are from Flaticon.com, accessed through the licence held Tactuum Ltd for the resources supported by the software platform it provides.
The content for this toolkit has been developed using the national guidance on child protection from the Scottish Government.
The North Lanarkshire Child Protection Procedures content and this RDS toolkit have been signed off by the Child Protection Committee as of September 2023. It will be updated when national updates become available.
The North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee will oversee the the ongoing development and sign off of the app.
There is an embedded feedback form in the app which can be used for any user feedback or complaints. Completed feedback forms will go to the key contact for the toolkit for review. The Child Protection Team will follow up on any feedback received, and will escalate complaints or feedback to the North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee as appropriate.
The email for any general app enquiries is available in the "Key contacts" section above.
Any messages received through the generic RDS Feedback form will also be forwarded to the key contact email address who will address the feedback as above.
If the app requires significant amendments, it will be referred to North Lanarkshire Child Protection Committee for consideration.
The app has been risk assessed, and mitigations put in place where required.
The toolkit has been user-tested and feedback has been provided by the Workforce Learning and Development Group within North Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership.
ADP - Alcohol and Drug Partnerships
BTP - British Transport Police
CICA - Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
CME- Children Missing from Education
CPC - Child Protection Coordinator
CPO - Child Protection Order
COPFS - Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
CPPM - Child Protection Planning Meetings
CSA - Child Sexual abuse
CSE - Child sexual exploitation
EYMAS - Early Years Multi-Agency Support
FGM - Female genital mutilation
FMS - Forensic Medical Service
GIRFEC - Getting it right for every child
HBA - Honour-based abuse
HSCP - Health and Social Care Partnership
ICO - Information Commissioner's Office
iVPD - interim Vulnerable Persons Database
IRD - Inter-agency Referral Discussion
JII - Joint Investigative Interview
JPFE - Joint Paediatric Forensic Examination
MAPPA - Multi Agency Public Protection Agency
NES - NHS Education for Scotland
NHS - National Health Service
NoC - Making a Notification of concern
PF - Procurator fiscal
PPU - Public Protection unit
UNCRC - United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
SCIM - Scottish Child Interview Model
SCRA - Scottish Children's Reporter Administration
SFRS - Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
SMART - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timebound
SPS - Scottish Prison Service (SPS)
VAW Partnerships - Violence Against Women Partnerships