About the Elective Care programme
Ensuring all patients receive high-quality elective care without any unnecessary delay is a key national directive. This Elective Care elearning programme delivers essential knowledge and understanding of referral to treatment (RTT) pathways and wider elective care principles, standards and rules. The programme is designed to be used by a variety of NHS staff working across a range of organisations who are responsible for managing patients along elective pathways and/or delivering national elective care standards.
The programme is broken down into 8 short sessions which are structured in a chronological pathway order. All staff are required to complete the first 2 sessions: Introduction to elective care and Co-ordinating consultant-led elective care. Following this, each user should then undertake those sessions specific to their role, as agreed with their line manager. At the end of each session is a 5-question assessment. Participants will pass the assessment if they answer 4 out of 5 (80%) questions correctly. A further reassessment is available should they not achieve a pass on the first assessment.
A certificate is available on the successful completion of each session and assessment for users to download and/or print.
Primary and secondary audiences
These elearning sessions have been developed to enable staff who deal with RTT rules and processes within their everyday roles to gain either introductory training or refresher training, to ensure a consistent understanding of how the rules and processes work and should be applied.
Operational, administration and clinical staff at all levels, who are involved in elective care, can work through each module in turn or access those sessions relevant to their role and area of work.
Meet the Elective Care Improvement Support Team (IST), NHS England team
Matthew Noonan – Head of Improvement
Kathy Butt – Head of Improvement
Lyndsay Pendegrass – Deputy Director, Elective Care Improvement
Alison Poole – Head of Improvement
Meet the NHSE TEL team
Karole Smith – Programme Manager – Technology Enhanced Learning, NHS England
Steven Thompson – Senior Project Manager – Technology Enhanced Learning, NHS England
Stephen Gibbons – Lead Learning Designer – Technology Enhanced Learning, NHS England
Abigail Lingford – Animator and Graphic Designer – Technology Enhanced Learning, NHS England
How to access
To access any Learning Hub programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the Elective Care programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can access the Elective Care programme by logging in to the Learning Hub, selecting Browse catalogues or searching by name and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My learning section.
NHS healthcare staff in England – ESR
The Elective Care programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access to the elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the Elective Care programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System, please contact elfh directly to express interest.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.
Select here for more information on the authorisations process to run reports on the learning activity of staff.
Select the following link for more information about CPD points.