About this toolkit

The NHS Grampian Paediatric Unscheduled Care web and mobile toolkit is intended to support primary healthcare professionals to check and confirm their assessment of paediatric patients. It provides reference information to help a healthcare professional to use their knowledge to make a clinical decision. It  does not provide prescriptive directions for action.

NHS Grampian has collaborated with the national decision support service – the Right Decision Service led by the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre to deliver a web and mobile toolkit for paediatric unscheduled care for primary care staff.

The toolkit is designed to support the Realistic Medicine goals of patient safety, reducing unwarranted variation and harm and delivering consistent, high quality care based on validated evidence.  It includes interactive algorithmic tools for:

• Sepsis screening in different paediatric age groups, based on the Sepsis Trust guidelines. The screening tools cover face to face consultation and out of hours/phone triage.
• Assessment pathways when a specific diagnosis is suspected – for acute asthma, acute otitis media, bronchiolitis, croup, lower respiratory tract infection and tonsillitis. These are based on the NHS Grampian pathways.

The primary audience for this toolkit comprises primary care healthcare professionals, including Advanced Nurse Practitioners, GP trainees, newly qualified GPs, and experienced GPs occasionally wanting to check paediatric assessments.

The toolkit has been extensively tested and is now in beta-testing format ready for wider use and evaluation across NHS Grampian. 

In accordance with EU Directive 93/42/EEC, MedDev 2.1/6 and MHRA guidance  including the MHRA specific guidance on calculators, the tools within this toolkit are not considered to be medical devices because:

• They exist only to provide reference information to help a healthcare professional to use their knowledge to make a clinical decision.
• The intended user will be fully aware of the pathways underpinning the tool and will be readily able to verify the tool’s output from their professional knowledge or by following the links provided to visual pathways.

Please refer to the Right Decisions conditions of use

NHS Grampian hopes that the information in this app/website will be useful to its healthcare professionals, but it accepts no responsibility and offers no warranties for the content or your use of it, as far as the law allows us to exclude such liability. 

Clinical knowledge is constantly changing. As new information become available, changes in treatment, procedures, equipment and the use of drugs become necessary. The developers and contributors have taken care to ensure that the information given is correct and current. However, users of this resource are strongly advised to confirm that the information complies with the latest legislation and standards of practice. 

All use of this resource is subject to Scots law and the jurisdiction of the Scottish courts and is subject to this disclaimer. Any views given on the site are not necessarily those of NHS Grampian or anyone connected with us. 

NHS Grampian is not responsible for the content of external websites which link to or are linked to by this application. Some external links may be to websites that also offer commercial services. If a link to a particular website is included on our site, it does not mean that NHS Grampian officially endorses that website, its owners, products or services. 

Link to:  Accessibility statement 

Link to: Browser and device compatibility statement

These statements are provided by Tactuum Ltd, the company which provides the underpinning technology for the Right Decisions platform.

Copyright in the NHS Grampian pathways accessed via the “Assessment when a specific diagnosis is suspected” section of this toolkit resides with NHS Grampian.

For copyright details of other resources provided by external organisations, check the links provided.