Realistic Medicine is a broad concept and in fact refers to Realistic Care. It relates to an approach that seeks to engage the Scottish people in their own health and social care and to do so with an increasingly shared understanding of what matters to each individual. This approach encourages health and social care professionals to work with patients, carers and the public to affect outcomes by reducing harm, personalising care and therefore improving the quality of experience of patients and staff.
We wish to support those facing health related decisions to feel that their voice leads an agreed approach. We wish to support staff so that they can recognise people as experts in their own lives and engage with humility and respect. Clinical decisions should be evidence based, accepting that the basis for this evidence should be examined with a critical eye to see if it is applicable to the individual in front of us. This clinical judgement should be shared and made with full discussion of their individual values and preference. This approach also has to consider the various reasons behind differences in care decisions across a region such as Tayside. Work will include attempts to improve consistency in care so there is confidence that decisions are based on evidence and consider personal preference.
In Tayside, our approach will be to encourage innovation, coproduction and value improvement. We will harness the unique talent available in the region to use quality improvement and design approaches to progress projects. A network involving a wide group of the public, health and care staff, university partners and other local innovators will develop ideas, share good practice and collaborate on projects. This work will be supported by management teams across the health and social care partnerships.
Shobhan Thakore, Emergency Medicine Consultant/Associate Medical Director for Quality Management
Allyson Angus, Public Involvement Manager
Fiona Barnett, Clinical Co-ordinator for Specialist Palliative Care
Deans Buchanan, Consultant/Lead Clinician, Specialist Palliative Care
Diane Campbell, Associate Director, Patient Safety
Alison Carnegie, Community Nurse Manager
Susan Chisholm, Head of Nursing, Medicine & Cardiovascular
Alison Clement, GP/Clinical Director
Arlene Coulson, Lead Clinical Pharmacist
Gaynor Dickson, Communications Manager
Colin Fleming, Consultant Dermatologist and Deputy Operational Medical Director
Stewart Gillan, Consultant Ophthalmologist
Sharon Hilton Christie, Consultant Anaesthetist
Alana Brown-Kerr, ST Doctor
Maureen Lafferty, Consultant Physician in Renal Medicine
Matthew Lambert, Consultant in Medicine for the Elderly and Stroke
Lynn Lambie, Head of Nursing
Stuart Lyall, Head of Finance
Jaime Lyon, Finance Manager
Rodney Mountain, Consultant ENT
Nicola Gray, SISCC Associate Director
Michelle Watts, Associate Medical Director, Primary Care
Alison White, Consultant, Emergency Medicine
Tracey Williams, Associate Director, Improvement
Paul Arbuckle, Service Improvement Lead
Sue Cole, Patient Public
Francis Bennison, Patient Public