The long-awaited new national Polypharmacy guidance toolkit for 2026-2029 is now live. The URL to promote is https://polypharmacy.scot.nhs.uk

• This toolkit provides person-centred, clinical and shared decision-making tools to support patients taking multiple medications. It focuses on preventing inappropriate polypharmacy—when the risks of medications outweigh the benefits—by using structured 7-step medication reviews.

The new national Chronic pain quality prescribing guide for improvement is also now live. You can promote the short URL https://rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/chronicpainprescribing

• This toolkit supports support safer, more consistent, and more person‑centred prescribing and management of chronic pain in primary care. It encourages a move away from a purely biomedical model toward a biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary approach that supports patient understanding, self‑management and better outcomes.

The national Framework for Effective Cancer Management (FECM) toolkit has been published by the Right Decision Service in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Delivery. Short URL https://rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/fecm

 

• This Framework aims to help achieve the ambitions set out in the Cancer Strategy for Scotland 2023-2033 by providing clear guidance to help NHS Boards achieve the national 62- and 31-day cancer waiting times standards. 

The Safety culture cards toolkit for primary care staff, from Public Services Delivery Scotland (formerly NES) is now live.  Short URL https://rightdecisions.scot.nhs.uk/safetyculture

This toolkit helps teams to:

• Build shared understanding about safety
• Reflect on and improve behaviours and processes
• Hold meaningful, structured discussions
• Learn from each other’s experiences
• Identify priorities for local improvement
• Strengthen teamwork and psychological safety

NHS Fife has published an Emotional resources approach toolkit (currently password-protected) .

-          The local clinical psychology team will use this toolkit to support patients to learn about emotion regulation and how to manage emotional dysregulation.