Perinatal Telehealth Project
The NHS Scotland Perinatal Telehealth Project is progressing the development, evaluation and implementation of an auditable clinical template and decision support tool which will assist midwives in making clinically appropriate telehealth assessment and decision making regarding women in their care e.g. whether a woman is in labour, timing of admission or requirement for a home visit.
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PLEASE NOTE: The Maternity Call Record v9 pilot material is now available. The best way to review the template is probably to download the Maternity Call Record form (in Resources below), and review that. Then go into the Maternity Call Record template below and add any comments you have, or read comments left by others.
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Sorry but I can’t see a huge difference, so the comments I have made previously still stand. Perhaps you would like to come to SRI and see an established Triage in action and discuss what is useful and what is not re v9.
Dear colleagues
I have revised the Call Record template in response to your feedback and discussion with the HoM’s and Lead Midiwives. v9 will be available from the website and has been sent out to all HoM’s electronically and a number of printed copies posted.
Kind regards
Eunice
Dear colleagues
many thanks for your contibutions to date. I expect to adjust the Maternity Call Record this week in light of your feedback.
The main purpose of the document is to provide midwives with a medico-legal framework, not a list, and should compliment and support clinical judgment. Clearly we need to do better here!
I am presenting an update to the The Lead Midwives Group tomorrow and meeting with midwives on the workiing groups later this week. Feeback here at the end of the week.
kind regards
Eunice
We have been piloting the paper version at PRM in place of our current form. The idea of having a national form is a good one. We liked the callback facility on the back page.
However the current form is very busy and seems to be designed for non midwives to use. In the call reason section we would prefer a dotted line instead of the tick boxes for a midwife to write on.
If the plan is for this form to be completed on line then this has huge implications for maternity units.
A distressed labouring woman will lose patience with the number of questions. A midwife to patient telephone consultaion requires to flow at the pace of the woman and should not be done in a regimented manner. I can see this form being useful to non-midwives as a decision support aid. In the guidance provided it frequently advises to refer to a midwife if she is already talking to a midwife how does this support decision? In addition some women call with obstetric emergencies this form would take too long to complete and cause delay.
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site is provided by Glasgow Caledonian University for NHS Scotland 
Dear All
Apologies for the delay in further progress, but we need approval from the National Maternity Group regarding the recommendations from the project to enable us to fully implement the next steps.
This is clearly still work in progress and I am more than happy to take any further comments from you.
Kind regards
Eunice