Since GRiST was launched online, 250,000 risk assessments have been completed and over 16,000 were added in the last month. We have recently moved to a new server that will provide even faster access and that will accommodate the increasing numbers as new services adopt GRiST.
ENDORSING SAFER PRACTICE & PROMOTING POSITIVE RISK
May 7th 2013
ASTON UNIVERSITY Campus
IAPTus kindly invited us to an event in Leeds that showcased information technology services that could be made available to t clinicians using IAPTus. GRiST is already accessible via IAPTus and any IAPT service with the IAPTus patient record system can use GRiST straightaway. Linking specialist information systems together in this way is sensible because it means systems can concentrate on their areas of expertise and not have to replicate what other people are already doing.
Barchester Healthcare is now accessing the web version of GRiST having been a user of the paper document for several years.
See the timeline for more details but we are preparing for work on a grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which will start in January. This will be a great opportunity to analyse the relationships between service user data and how they influence clinical risk of suicides.
"Interesting discussion of risk and safety tool GRiST. Aims to give better understanding and mgmt of risk for clinicians and SU's." The Mental Health Network is part of the NHS Confederation.
The HSRN conference is called Delivering Better Health Services and will run on 19th and 20th June 2012 at Manchester Central.
The HSRN Symposium (formerly the HSRN SDO annual conference), now in its fifth year, is the field’s premier knowledge event. The event features presentations and discussion at the leading edge of health services research.
Internet Explorer versions 9 and below do not have a built-in spell checker so we have added our own to the GRiST assessment tool. Most browsers, such as Firefox, already have their own spell checkers and so does IE10 so we have not made it available for these. But if you are using earlier versions of IE, you will now be able to use our own tool to check your spelling in the narrative comments and management information placed alongside the risk items.
Risk assessment reports have been given additional functionality. It is now possible to show how a person's risks have changed across multiple assessments and also how individual risk factors have changed across the same time period. This gives an insight into the dynamic nature of a person's risks and helps indicate the direction they are likely to take in the future.
A version of GRiST for IAPT services has been produced that can rapidly screen for risks and support referrals when appropriate.