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Please update your RDS mobile app to version 4.7.1

We are pleased to advise that deep linking capability, enabling users to directly download individual mobile toolkits, has now been released on the RDS mobile app. When you install the update, you will see that each toolkit has a small QR code icon the header area beside the search icon – see screenshot below. Clicking on this icon will open up a window with a full-size QR code and the alternative of a short URL for sharing with users. Instructions are provided.

You may need to actively install the update to install RDS app version 4.7.1 to see this improvement. Installing this update is also strongly recommended to get the full benefits of the new contingency arrangements – specifically, that if the RDS website should fail, you will still be able to download new mobile app toolkits. 

To check your current RDS version, click on the three dots bottom right of the RDS app screen. This takes you to a “More” page where you will see the version number.  To install latest updates:

On iPhones – go to the Apple store, click on your profile icon top right, scroll down to see the apps waiting to be updated and update the RDS app.

On Android phones – these can vary, but try going to the Google Play store, click on your profile icon top right, click on “Manage apps and device”, select and update the RDS app.

Please get in touch with ann.wales3@nhs.scot with any questions.

Place of Birth recommendations, NHSGGC (1101)

Women may choose any birth setting and health care professionals have a responsibility to support women in their choice of setting wherever they choose to give birth.

Midwifery led units (freestanding or alongside) are particularly suitable for low risk women as the rate of interventions is lower and the outcome for the baby is no different compared with an obstetric unit.

For low risk women, planning birth in an obstetric unit is associated with a higher rate of interventions such as instrumental vaginal birth, caesarean birth and episiotomy compared with planning birth in a midwifery led setting.

This document aims to support women to make safe choices and to provide staff with a tool to assist in birth place planning.

All low risk women from 37+0 to 42 weeks are suitable to birth in the AMU’s in Glasgow and the CMUs in Clyde. Women should be risk assessed at each contact to ensure they remain on the correct pathway and to discuss recommendations for birthing in the AMU or CMU. Some women who have risk factors are recommended to birth in the AMU or CMU following a discussion with an Obstetric Consultant. This conversation should take place before 37 weeks, at the point of discussing birth plan and should be clearly documented under management plan on Badgernet. There are some differences for AMU, in unit CMU and outlying CMUs which are detailed within this document.

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Editorial Information

Last reviewed: 29/08/2023

Next review date: 31/08/2028

Author(s): Kirsty MacLean, Nicola Fry.

Version: 1

Co-Author(s): Clare Monaghan, Marie Whalen.

Approved By: Maternity Clinical Governance Group

Document Id: 1101