About this toolkit

Key contacts - Clinical Leads

Kirsty Nicholson, Occupational Therapy Care Group Lead, Glasgow City HSCP

Kirsty.nicholson@glasgow.gov.uk

Laura Halcrow, Acute Sector Falls Prevention Lead, NHSGGC

Laura.Halcrow@nhs.scot

Thomas Gahagan, Equipu Partnership Manager

thomas.gahagan@glasgow.gov.uk

Key contacts - Knowledge Managers

Michelle Kirkwood, Knowledge Services Manager, NHSGGC

michelle.kirkwood2@nhs.scot.nhs.uk

Kara Mackay, Assistant Librarian, NHSGGC

kara.mackay2@nhs.scot

Senior Responsible Owner

Samantha Flower, Occupational Therapy Professional Lead for Partnerships, NHSGGC

Samantha.Flower@nhs.scot

Content has been checked for accessibility in line with the relevant RDS standard operating procedure.

Authorship

The content in this toolkit has been developed and reviewed by NHSGGC and Glasgow City HSCP based upon MHRA Guidance on the managing and using bed rails safely, August 2023.

Review and approval

The content was reviewed by staff across NHSGGC and Glasgow City HSCP, and approved for use within NHSGGC and Glasgow City HSCP by the Senior Responsible Officer and the Executive Director of Nursing in January 2026.

The toolkit is set to be reviewed annually or when MHRA guidance is updated and or other feedback is received.

Bed safety rails and grab rails illustrations provided by Medical Illustration and Copyright to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.  These cannot be used out with NHSGGC without permission.

Photographs of products reproduced with kind permission of the product owners.

Tile icons sourced and edited from Flaticon.

The content of this toolkit is based largely on the following:

Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency. Guidance on managing and using bed rails safely.  Published August 2023.

We encourage users of this toolkit to use our contact form to highlight any feedback or complaints.

Responses are monitored by the Key contact - clinical leads as listed above. Any messages received through the generic RDS Feedback form will also be forwarded to the Knowledge Manager for the toolkit and passed on as appropriate.

The toolkit has been risk assessed, and mitigations put in place where required.

The toolkit was user tested by NHSGGC and Glasgow HSCP staff prior to publication, and further user engagement will be undertaken as part of ongoing development work.