Talks | Right Decisions

Announcements and latest updates

Welcome to the Right Decision Service (RDS) newsletter for August 2024.

Contingency planning for RDS outages

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 26^th 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.

New toolkits

The following toolkits are now live;

Gender identity healthcare: adults and young people standards. (https://rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/genderidentity ) Note that this toolkit includes self-evaluation forms for each standard. A Scottish Government launch of these standards, together with the toolkit and NES educational resources, is planned for 3^rd September.
Care Inspectorate staffing method framework.
Vascular surgery pathways from the Modernising Patient Pathways Programme within the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Delivery.

Updated guidance on current and future Medical Device Regulations

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.

Guide to six stages of RDS toolkit development

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.

Training sessions for new editors (also serve as refresher sessions for existing editors) will take place on the following dates:

Thursday 5 September 1-2 pm
Wednesday 24 September 4-5 pm
Friday 27 September 12-1 pm

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

This page is still evolving, so please do come back. We have placed some links below to interesting TED talks that we have come across.

TED talks

TED talk by Willoughby Britton

Why a neuroscientist would study meditation (approx 17 minutes)

TEDxBrownUniversity - Willoughby Britton - Why A Neuroscientist Would Study Meditation - YouTube

TED talks by Clinical Psychologist Susan David

The gift and power of emotional courage (approx 17 minutes)

Susan David: The gift and power of emotional courage | TED Talk

How to be your best self in times of crisis (approx 45 minutes)

Susan David: How to be your best self in times of crisis | TED Talk

TED talk by Richard J Davidson

How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains (approx 18 min)

How mindfulness changes the emotional life of our brains | Richard J. Davidson | TEDxSanFrancisco (youtube.com)

TED talk by travel writer Pico Lyer

The art of stillness (approx 16 minutes)

The Art of Stillness | Pico Iyer | TED - YouTube

TED talk by Sara Overton

How Mindfulness in Nature Can Transform Us & Climate Change (approx 12 minutes)

How Mindfulness in Nature Can Transform Us & Climate Change | Sara Overton | TEDxWashingtonSquare (youtube.com)

TED talk by Dr Judson Brewer

A simple way to break a bad habit (approx 9 minutes)

Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit | TED Talk

TED talk by Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar

Want to be happy? Be grateful (approx 15 minutes)

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast - YouTube

Insights from experts

Self compassion in difficult times with Kristin Neff (approx 60 minutes)

Self Compassion in difficult times - with Kristin Neff - YouTube

The Benefits of Mindfulness with Willem Kuyken (approx 17 minutes)

The Benefits of Mindfulness with Willem Kuyken - YouTube

Dr Theresa Dahm, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust discusses how our emotion systems may have been affected by changes COVID 19 has brought (approx 8 minutes)

Using CFT's Three Circles during COVID19 - YouTube

Healing Loneliness with US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy (approx 35 minutes)

Healing Loneliness with US Surgeon General, Dr Vivek Murthy - YouTube

What is loneliness, a talk by Andy Puddicombe (approx 25 minutes)

What is Loneliness? - YouTube

Grateful voices, talk by Kristi Nelson (approx 11 minutes)

Grateful Voices - Kristi Nelson - YouTube

We are built to be kind, University of California (approx 5 minutes)

We Are Built To Be Kind - YouTube

Cultivating mindfulness in difficult times, talk by John Kabat-Zin (approx 22 minutes)

Cultivating Mindfulness In Difficult Times | eomega.org

Updated 23/07/2024 (review date due in 6 months)