Nicola Naven
Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead for Recruitment
Contact:Nicola.Naven@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Donna Lennie
Team Lead-Recruitment Services
Contact: Donna.Lennie@ggc.scot.nhs.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
Say Hello to some of your future colleagues...
Nicola Naven
Consultant Psychiatrist & Clinical Lead for Recruitment
Contact:Nicola.Naven@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Donna Lennie
Team Lead-Recruitment Services
Contact: Donna.Lennie@ggc.scot.nhs.uk
Ruth Stocks
Professional Lead for Psychology
Alison Blackett & Niamh Rice
Consultant Clinical Psychologist & Team Lead (Job share)
NHS GG&C's board-wide Psychological Therapies Groups Service
We are delighted to have launched a new service during the height of the pandemic, which
delivers a range of evidence-based psychological therapy groups to adults who are receiving
a service from our secondary care, community mental health teams in NHS GG&C. Because
the service launched at the height of the pandemic, it has been delivered entirely digitally
up until now, using MS Teams as the platform to deliver the groups. As we progress out of
the pandemic, the service looks forward to considering what a blended service model may
entail, including face to face and digital group options. The service currently delivers
Behavioural Activation groups, Emotional Coping Skills Groups, Survive and Thrive groups,
STEPPS groups, Unified Protocol groups and an ACT-based group for individuals living with
long term physical health conditions, with plans to develop and deliver further group
programmes, and to remain responsive to the needs of the target population.
Beverley Grantham
Head occupational Therapist- Primary Care
Alyson Wright
Social Work Team Lead-South
Lucy Kilmartin
Consultant Psychiatrist
As I approached the end of my higher training, I received excellent support and supervision around preparing for a consultant role. This included a stepped increase in responsibilities within my clinical team, followed by opportunities to formally act-up, and time to attend
relevant courses, including consultant interview workshops held within GGC. Other important resources around this time, such as the transition Balint group were also well
promoted.
The step up to a consultant job is, I think, always challenging, and the level of responsibility is very keenly felt, but I have found consultant colleagues to be hugely encouraging and supportive, making it a really positive and exciting experience.
Martin Culshaw
Deputy Medical Director, Mental Health and Addictions
Una Graham
Deputy Associate Medical Director, Mental Health and Addictions
Julie Metcalfe Clinical Director for CAMHS |
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Rona Gow Clinical Director for Forensic Services |
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Ashleigh Fergie Clinical Director for Older Adult Services |
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Jason Mannix Clinical Director for Specialist Services |
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Elita Smiley Clinical Director for Learning Disabilities |
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Saket Priyadarshi Associate Medical Director and Senior Medical Officer at Glasgow Alcohol and Drug Recovery Services |
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Shilpa Shivaprasad Interim Clinical Director For Renfrewshire |
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James Loudon Clinical Director For Glasgow South
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Lucy Carrick Interim Clinical Director For Glasgow West
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Stephen Anderson Interim Clinical Director for Glasgow North East
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