About this toolkit

Key Contact - Silas McGilvray, Project Officer - Standards and Indicators team - silas.mcgilvray@nhs.scot  

Authors - Maternity standards development group

Reviewers - Maternity standards project team

Main Contact e-mail - his.standardsandindicators@nhs.scot 

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Authors:

Maternity standards development group

Programme manager - standards team

Processes and Key Responsibilities:

Review and sign-off of content at time of initial publication
Maternity standards development group and Maternity standards editorial panel agreed to signing off content at time of publication.

Review and sign-off of initial delivery of the content via the RDP
Standards team lead signed off to structure of toolkit at time of publication.

Proposing updates and signing off proposals for updates to the content after
initial publication, outwith the scheduled review dates.
If there was an external request from a senior stakeholder to make an update to standards, a new development group would be formed to agree to the necessary change of standards.

Review and sign-off of updated content via the RDP, outwith the scheduled
review dates.
Standards team lead would sign off to structure of toolkit outwith scheduled review dates.

Determining the review date(s) for content.
A set of standards is usually written from the viewpoint of being relevant and applicable for at least 5 years. Therefore review date for standards content will be five years.

Receiving the automated alerts from RDP when the content is due for review, and ensuring that the review takes place in a timely manner?

Standards team will meet when standards are due for review.

Content Updates:

Right Decision Service team at HIS will make updates to toolkit when necessary under guidance of standards team.

Maternity standards development group and Maternity standards editorial panel have checked copyright compliance as necessary. Full page of references included within toolkit.

Maternity standards development group have followed the necessary process. This is the latest Standards toolkit to be added to the standards toolkit collection on the RDS

Maternity care standards content included in toolkit has been approved by Maternity standards development group and Maternity standards editorial panel

Potential Risk - Standards no longer current. In consequence, content may be out of date and staff do not get optimal guidance.

Mitigation - A set of standards is usually written from the viewpoint of being relevant and applicable for at least 5 years. Therefore review date for standards content will be five years.

Standards team have responsibility for checking/testing all toolkit content.