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Current Awareness

This guide offers access to a range of current awareness bulletins. These are produced by NHS Scotland librarians for all health and social care staff in Scotland.

Realistic Medicine

This bulletin compiles evidence relevant to the '6 Pillars' of Realistic Medicine: shared decision making, personalised approach to care, reducing harm and waste, reducing unwarranted variation, managing risk, and becoming improvers and innovators. 


Frequency: quarterly


It is co-authored by a team of NHSS Librarians. We welcome your feedback and you can get in touch with any of us using the contact details below:

Elizabeth Carney, NHS Forth Valley, elizabeth.carney@nhs.scot

Rebecca N. Hart, The State Hospital, rebecca.hart@nhs.scot

Tim Zijlstra, NHS Tayside, timotheus.zijlstra@nhs.scot


To subscribe to this bulletin, please contact tay.improvementacademy@nhs.scot 

 Subscribe to the Realistic Medicine Bulletin

Please note, only the 4 most recent issues of this bulletin are made available here. If you'd like to see an older issue, please get in touch with one of the co-authors listed above.