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.
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With kind regards
Right Decision Service team
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
Team: South
Bases: Castlemilk Health Centre, Pollok Health Centre
Please submit completed referral forms for our South Team to the
following email address: SouthCommunityDietetics@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Castlemilk Health Centre 0141 531 8562
Postcode / Catchment Area: G5 G41 G42 G44 G45 G46 G74.6 (Carmunnock)
G76
Pollok Health Centre 0141 531 6819
Postcode / Catchment Area: G43 G51 G52 G53 G74.5 (Thorntonhall) G77 G78
Team: South Clyde
Bases: Ferguslie Clinic, Greenock Health Centre
Please submit completed referral forms for our South Clyde Team to the
following email address:
CommunityDieteticSouthClyde@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Ferguslie Clinic 0141 314 0536
Postcode / Catchment Area: PA1 PA2 PA3 PA4 PA5 PA6 PA7 PA8 PA9 PA10 PA11 PA12 PA13
Greenock Health Centre 01475 714 404
Postcode / Catchment Area: PA13 PA14 PA15 PA16 PA18 PA19
Team: West
Bases: Clydebank Health Centre, Drumchapel Health Centre, Vale Centre for Health & Care
Please submit completed referral forms for our West Team to the
following email address:
communitydietetics.westquadrant@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Clydebank Health Centre - 0141 531 6480
Postcode / Catchment Area: G81 G60
Drumchapel Health Centre - 0141 232 9156
Postcode / Catchment Area: G3 G4 G11 G12 G13 G14 G15 G20 G22
G23 G61 G62 (not care homes in G20 G22 G23)
Vale Centre for Health and Care - 01389 828285
Postcode / Catchment Area: G82 G83
Team: North East
Bases: Springburn Health Centre, Lightburn Hospital
Please submit completed referral forms for our North East Team to the
following email address:
NorthEastCommunityDietetics@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Lightburn Hospital 0141 531 6272
Postcode / Catchment Area: G31 G32 G33 G34 G40 G69 (Baillieston
addresses) & Part of G4 (Calton, Drygate, Townhead) G71 (Broomhouse)
Springburn Health Centre 0141 232 9101
Postcode / Catchment Area: G21 G64 G66
Nursing/Care Homes and Residential Homes in: G20 G22 G23
Team: Inverclyde RES
Base: Inverclyde Centre for Independent Living
Please submit completed referral forms for our Inverclyde RES team to the
following email address:
icrs@inverclyde.gov.uk
Phone Number: 01475 714350
Postcode / Catchment Area: PA13, PA14, PA15, PA16, PA18 and PA19
Postal referrals should be sent to the following address:
ICIL, 14-16 Gibshill Road, Greenock, PA15 2UP.
Please note clinical referrals to Dietetics from care homes need to also include a completed MUST Step 5 form to complete the referral process.
GGC - Nutrition in Care Homes