Using and Licencing Pathfinder

The Manchester Triage System (MTS) is a series of clinical risk management tools used by clinicians worldwide to enable them to safely manage patient flow when clinical need far exceeds capacity. The following clinical risk management tools are available:

• Emergency Triage
• Telephone Triage and Advice
• Pathfinder
• SAFE pathways: Community-based clinicians

A formal governance structure for MTS ensures that training, audit and robust ongoing review is carried out routinely so that the tools stay safe, up-to-date and relevant to current practice.

The MTS tools are licenced to recognise the ownership of the intellectual property of MTS content and also to provide ongoing funding for the governance processes.  The licencing agreement also provides a formal connection between the MTS and its end-users ensuring that end-users receive the correct training, engage in audit and are fully aware when updates are required.

The licencing process for MTS content is managed by Wiley on behalf of the Advanced Life Support Group and the Manchester Triage Group. 

The first step is to register via our online portal to ensure that you understand the governance processes in terms of training, audit and licencing. 

We have licencing options for:

• Software developers pre-populating with MTS content
• Software developers providing the framework for MTS but not pre-populating with MTS content
• Web-app developers pre-populating with MTS content
• End-users who purchase software pre-populated with MTS content
• End-users who purchase software with a framework but no MTS content embedded and then embed the MTS content in-house
• End-users who develop software in-house and integrate MTS content
• End-users who use paper-based systems to implement MTS content

The online portal is currently in beta format and if you have any feedback on its use, please email manchestertriage@alsg.org.  The portal explains the rights and obligations of each option and the approach to and cost of licencing. Click here to start the process.

For end-users, one of the obligations is with regard to training and for Emergency Triage, Telephone Triage and Pathfinder an organisation is recognised as a Manchester Triage provider if it has instructors who have undertaken training with the Manchester Triage Group or with one of our International Reference Groups (see details in the instructor training section below)

Please read the liability statement here

Licencing the use of MTS Risk Management Tools

In recognition of the importance of safe decision-making in other settings, the Manchester Triage System (MTS) has been adapted with a Nursing and Residential Triage Tool (NaRT) and a Community Triage Tool (CoTT) for use in the following:

• Nursing and residential homes (NaRT)
• Out of hours and Telemedicine providers (CoTT)
• Telecare and Pendant providers (CoTT)
• First responder organisations (CoTT)
• Community assessment services (CoTT)

The principles of the Manchester Triage System are still followed with the use of the reductive methodology, however some discriminators and definitions have been amended to enable both clinical and non-clinical staff in these settings to use the tools. Outcomes can be tailored to the availability of services in your area.

If you are interested in setting up any of these tools in a country, region or individual organisation, then the first step is to register via our online portal to ensure that you understand the governance processes in terms of training, audit and licensing.

Non-UK centres - book translation rights

For Emergency Triage and Telephone Triage only - if you are interested in translating the book for use on local courses, please contact translationrights@wiley.com, who will be able to check whether there is already a translation in your language in the first instance. 

We prefer to license to local publishers to ensure that all translations are published on a proper legal footing and receive all due commercial support.
 
If you already have contacts with local publishers, we suggest you approach them in the first instance to find out if they might be interested in publishing a translation.  If so, they would then need to contact Wiley at the email address above.

We would ask that no translation work start before an Agreement is signed between Wiley and your selected local publisher.