RIMES provides a quick and easy way for users working in services to enter incidents and record when physical intervention or PRN medication are used. It then allows for large data sets to be analysed quickly and turned into reports to highlight a range of variables. RIMES reporting services are designed to be used as part of a wider PBS approach and can be used to provide valuable insights during practice workshops and other review procedures. RIMES provides crucial shared information for people working across an organisation (from direct support staff, managers, clinical / behavioural teams to the CEO) that can assist with data based decision making.

RIMES supports organisations to meet recommendations made in several best practice guidance documents around the use of restrictive practices.

• Department of Health (2014) - Reducing Restraint Network standards

• Royal College of Psychiatrists (2018) - Restrictive Interventions in Inpatient Intellectual Disability Services: How to Record, Monitor and Regulate. Technical report