Key Messages and links to 17 March 2021

Welcome to Health Education England’s stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• COVID-19 latest updates
• Overview of HEE education and training news
• An update from your regional office

HEE COVID-19 LATEST UPDATES:

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees. This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance.

The Learning Hub – Long COVID educational resources – call for content 

The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce.

Colleagues across health and care have been contributing resources and there are now over 950 resources available to access and share with colleagues.  These resources include videos and webinar recordings, elearning, slide presentations, Q&A packs, simulation scripts, posters, lesson plans and web links.

Contributions to the Learning Hub offer and support a wide range of training subject areas, including resources to support and deliver the current pandemic response and recovery, virtual training delivery and to support re-deployment.  As efforts shift towards pandemic recovery, the TEL team would like to encourage the sharing of educational resources particularly to increase knowledge in managing long-term effects of Coronavirus (long COVID) in patients.

It only takes a few minutes to contribute a resource to the Learning Hub, so if you or your organisation has resources to share and contribute to the Learning Hub please visit: https://learninghub.nhs.uk and select “Contribute a resource”.  You can sign into the Learning Hub either using an elearning for healthcare username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.

For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Increase in Scientist Training Programme applications

Applications to the National School of Healthcare Science Scientist Training Programme (STP) increased by 15 per cent from last year. The role of the healthcare scientists has proven to be particularly vital to efforts against COVID-19 in the UK. For more information visit our website www.nshcs.hee.nhs.uk

ARCP webinar

A webinar on ARCPs is being held for doctors in training on Tuesday 23 March at 19:00. The webinar will provide an update on ARCP guidance and processes, training recovery and live Q&As.

The webinar will be led by Dr Phil Bright – Head of School Medicine, Prof. Adrian Brooke – Deputy Medical Director and Professor Jane Mamelok – North West Regional Postgraduate Dean.

Questions can be submitted in advance for answering on the webinar.

Link to webinar

Ask questions in advance

Foundation ARCP webinar

In addition to the webinar on Tuesday 23 March, a second webinar is being held for doctors in training on Thursday 25 March at 19.00, focusing in particular on Foundation ARCP guidance, processes and live Q&As.

The webinar will be led by Dr Mike Masding, Co-Chair UKFPO, Dr Fiona Cameron and Dr Clare van Hamel, who are both Foundation School Directors.

Questions can be submitted in advance for answering on the webinar.

Link to webinar

Ask questions in advance

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update

Provisionally registered pharmacists who took the delayed registration assessment on 17 and 18 March will get their result on 29 April. Now that the March assessment dates are over, the focus of the programme will shift to re-engaging with foundation practice, while continuing to support those who have opted to sit the Summer assessment. Find out more about the Summer and Autumn assessment dates on the General Pharmaceutical Council website.

Registration for the Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme closes on 10 May. We encourage all provisionally registered pharmacists to sign up for the programme to benefit from all the support available. Find out more on the IFPP website.

Those working in community pharmacy, primary care and Health in Justice can further benefit by joining the Foundation Pharmacist Pathway 2020/21 as part of the programme. Find out more on the CPPE website. 

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

2020 National Education and Training Survey Results

The results for the recent HEE NETS are out now. NETS is aimed at all healthcare trainees and students across all clinical learning environments. The final number of responses received was 36,686, which is a 20% increase on the 2019 survey.

The interactive NETS Reporting Tool is now available on our website alongside a suite of regional and professional reports. These aim to provide an overview of the survey response data and offer a high-level analysis from the perspective of an NHS Region or professional group. The NETS Reporting Tool provides a granular level of information and includes a series of filterable options to enable the user to view relevant response data and create bespoke reports.

Together, the tool and reports illustrate the experience of students and trainees and offer a valuable insight into the wellbeing of learners during the pandemic.  This information can be triangulated with existing quality indicators, data sources and clinical and professional insights and intelligence to form a comprehensive picture of the clinical learning environment.

Joint plan for inclusive pharmacy practice

A joint plan for inclusive pharmacy was published last week. We are working collaboratively with NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK to develop and embed inclusive pharmacy professional practice into everyday care for patients and members of the public, to support the prevention of ill-health and address health inequalities within our diverse communities. Find out more here.

Applications for Cohort 4 of the NHS Digital Academy’s Digital Health Leadership Programme to open on 1^st April

We are pleased to announce that the application window for Cohort 4 of the Digital Health Leadership Programme (NHS Digital Academy) will open on 1^st April 2021, closing on Friday 30^th April, with the Cohort starting in September 2021.

You will find the latest updates on the NHS Digital Academy website, including support throughout the application process, top tips, case studies and access to webinars, and by following the Digital Readiness Twitter account. The website also includes our future vision for increasing access to a greater number of individuals.

Establishing the NHS Digital Academy is a workstream within the HEE Digital Readiness Programme. This programme is commissioned by NHSX.

HEE Star: proven to workforce redesign

The HEE Star is a definitive tool for any workforce redesign programme and Health Education England (HEE) has spent three years researching, building and refining the Star methodology and a set of accompanying resources to become the highly effective solution it has become today.

HEE commissioned health economists, Economics By Design, to qualify and quantify the value to providers and systems of applying the HEE Star methodology to planning workforce redesign. Evidence drawn from multiple examples of use illustrate greater results in a shorter time period – saving time for senior leaders and clinicians, as well as generating the potential for faster and more wide-spread change, given the efficiency and breadth of the design process.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

Updates to End of Life Care (e-ELCA)

A new session on the AMBER care bundle has been added to the End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) elearning programme.

This new session describes what the care bundle is, why it was developed and how to use it in clinical practice. It also explains how the resource will help colleagues to provide high quality care for patients who are facing uncertain recovery and may be approaching the end of life.

Eleven sessions have also been updated within the programme. These sessions are:

• Framework for End of Life Care in Advanced Kidney Disease
• Breaking bad news
• Distress: The crying patient
• Management of Cognitive deterioration
• Case Study Dementia
• Recognising and Managing Malignant Spinal Cord Compression
• Assessment of Physical Function
• Initiating Conversations About End of Life Care: Long-term Neurological Conditions
• Dying in Acute Hospitals
• “I’m not loveable anymore…” – discussing intimacy in advanced illness
• Assessment and management of weight loss and loss of appetite

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 4 March 2021

Welcome to Health Education England’s stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Messages from our Chief Executive’s Office
• COVID-19 latest updates
• Overview of HEE education and training news

Weekly messages from HEE:

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.

Last week Navina Evans welcomed the proposed legislation contained in the Government’s white paper. Read Navina’s full statement on the recently published government white paper on our website.

HEE COVID-19 LATEST UPDATES:

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees. This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance.

Nursing student support guidance has now been updated

Nursing student support guidance during COVID-19 has been updated. This clarifies that healthcare students are included on the list of eligible individuals covered by the NHS & Social Care Coronavirus Life Assurance Scheme. Read the full document here.

HEE’s elfh COVID-19 vaccination programme passes 2 million

HEE’s elfh COVID-19 vaccination programme has passed the milestone of 2 million session launches since going live.  The programme continues to be an essential part of the vaccination recruitment and training process and health and care colleagues are using the resource to develop the knowledge needed to confidently promote high uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine and deliver the vaccination programme effectively.

The programme consists of a core knowledge session, the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine BNT162b2 Pfizer-BioNTech session, the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca session and accompanying assessment sessions for each.  New elearning sessions will be added as each new vaccine becomes available.

Since the COVID-19 vaccination programme went live, the content has been updated and amended as more information about the vaccines and the vaccine programme has become available. Further details about the recent updates can be found on the elfh news page. More details about the vaccination content can be found on the elfh COVID-19 vaccination programme page.

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Video updates for medical and dental trainees

We have created a series of videos for medical and dental trainees during the current pandemic. In the latest update, Professor Jane Mamelok, Regional Postgraduate Dean for North West, gives an update on assessment and progression.

Record increase in applications for nursing degrees

New figures out last week showed a record rise in the number of university applications to become nurses. By 29 January – the deadline to start degrees this autumn – a total of 60,130 people across the UK had applied for nursing courses. This was up 32% on last year. Read more about the record increase in applications for nursing degrees on our website.

Recruitment webinar for dental trainees

A webinar is being held on Thursday 11 March at 7pm on recruitment for dental trainees. The webinar will include updates on recruitment into core and specialty.

We are taking questions in advance of the webinar, which will be answered on the night.

Link to ask questions in advance

Link to join the webinar on the night

HEE launches new roadmap for paramedic careers

HEE has developed a new pathway to help paramedics advance their careers.

The ‘roadmap to practice’ outlines the skills and attributes needed to help paramedics become first contact practitioners or advanced practitioners. Read more about the new roadmap for paramedic careers on our website.

Career Change to AHP

HEE recently released a video aimed at people who may consider changing their current role to that of one of the many allied health professions. Read more about the Career Change to AHP video on our website.

Second anniversary of Nursing Associates joining the NMC register

In the two years since the role of Nursing Associate was introduced, over 2,700 have joined the NMC register. Read more about the second anniversary of Nursing Associates on our website.

Supporting recruitment to primary care

Guidance and tools to support the planning for, recruiting and embedding of new roles under the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) are continuously being uploaded to a dedicated space on FutureNHS. This includes information about each of the roles, job descriptions and case studies.

It has recently been updated with guidance on alternative employment models and an example SLA, and support for PCNs on providing clinical supervision. If you are not a member of the workspace you can join by emailing P_C_N-manager@future.nhs.uk using an NHS or similar work email address.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

NHS Education Contract implementation 

As planned, regional teams are now working hard to carry out their implementation plans for the new NHS Education Contract by the 1 April introduction date. Due to the volume of activity required to introduce the contract for all our education and healthcare service partners, and the complexities for certain categories of provider, HEE regional teams may have chosen to stagger the introduction for primary care, private, independent and voluntary organisations over a longer period (to continue after 1 April 2021).

The HEE website now includes a copy of the final standard NHS Education Contract, approved for use and including all the standard template Schedules and Tri-Partite Agreements that sit under it (including the new Tri-Partite Agreement for Undergraduate Medical Education). The webpage also hosts a new ‘Supporting Guide’ to help inform partners who are entering into the new contract with HEE, as a well as a Frequently Asked Questions document (now version 3).

Assuming responsibility for Healthcare Education and Training Tariff

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has requested HEE assume responsibility for the development and implementation of the Healthcare Education and Training Tariff payment mechanism from April 2021. In total, the tariff system paid £2bn to placement providers in the 2019/20 financial year (placement tariff and postgraduate salary support). Historically the development of proposed changes to the tariffs (including price changes, extensions to scope etc.) has been undertaken annually by DHSC, who confirm any changes as part of their annual tariff guidance document.

The new Education Funding Function (Hazel Smith) will be responsible for the work as part of wider Funding policy development. For any initial discussions about HEE’s new responsibilities, any issues around the current tariffs, including guidance queries and operational issues, or for further information on tariffs and their coverage please contact educationfunding@hee.nhs.uk.

New tri-partite agreement for undergraduate medical funding

From April 2021, HEE will be introducing an Undergraduate Medical Education Tri-Partite Agreement (UGME TPA) as a schedule of the new NHS Education Contract. The TPA will provide a consistent, nationwide framework for managing the financial arrangements for providing undergraduate medical education between Medical Schools, NHS placement providers (secondary care and GP) and HEE. It will also align to governance structures that HEE has already introduced comprising of Regional and Local Medical School Liaison Committees. For more information about this work, please contact Diane Hart, Senior Education Commissioner Undergraduate Medicine and Dental, at diane.hart@hee.nhs.uk.

HEE welcomes publication of new training standards for pharmacists

HEE has welcomed new education and training standards for pharmacists, published this week by the General Pharmaceutical Council. Read more about the new training standards for pharmacists on our website.

The Topol Review two years on: Roundtable discussions

In February 2019 Health Education England published the Topol Review which underpins the innovative and transformational change needed across health education. Dr Eric Topol brought together a remarkable cross-disciplinary team of experts, including clinicians, educators, engineers, ethicists, and economists alongside leaders in digital healthcare development.

We have gathered some of the original authors who played a key role in delivering this ground-breaking report to discuss progress on the findings two years on including their thoughts on AI and robotics, genomics, digital medicine, and medical education. Watch now on the HEE website.

The first session takes place with some of the Topol Review Board members, chaired by Professor Lionel Tarassenko with Professor Berne Ferry, Professor Rose Luckin, Elizabeth Manero, Harpreet Sood, Patrick Mitchell and Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas.

In the second session members of the project team and Clinical Fellows carry on the conversation, chaired by Sue Lacey Bryant with Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, Dr Jes Maimaris, Dr David Cox, Dr Matt Hammerton and Dr Sangeetha Sornalinga. The films are also available on YouTube

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

The Learning Hub – Rapid training and education resources for critical care

To support staff being redeployed into critical care during the pandemic, the London Transformation and Learning Collaborative (LTLC) has worked in partnership with HEE to develop a range of resources. As part of this work the LTLC has created a toolkit, compiling guidance and resources to support interprofessional cross-skilling and safe, rapid redeployment of the workforce.  The toolkit has been added to the Learning Hub to make it easily accessible to members of the health and care workforce throughout the UK: A Toolkit for rapid cross-skilling, supporting safe redeployment.

The toolkit has been developed to highlight the most important skills for non-registered support staff to hold before starting work on a critical care unit, as identified by senior critical care nurses and educators across London.  The resources in the toolkit are also relevant for registered support clinicians, healthcare scientists and paediatric staff. More detail is available on the LTLC page on the elfh website.

It only takes a few minutes to contribute a resource to the Learning Hub. You can sign into the Learning Hub either using an elearning for healthcare username and password or NHS OpenAthens user account details. For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update – Getting ‘exam ready’

With the delayed GPhC registration assessment taking place on 17 and 18 March, the Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme continues to help learners to develop their practice. The focus right now is on getting ‘exam ready’.

Three video sessions are now available via the Learning Hub to help learners to create a good study plan and to manage their nerves. A new video by Pharmacist Support includes a range of tips and techniques to help manage feelings of unease, to help learners overcome feelings of stress, pressure and anxiety.

Learners will also find an updated section on the IFPP website, called ‘Getting ready for the GPhC registration assessment’. This is intended to help them find the right information quickly and signpost them to sources of help, including the new resources highlighted above.

We encourage all provisionally registered pharmacists to sign up for the programme to benefit from all the support available. The closing deadline has been extended until 10 May 2021 and you can find out more on the IFPP website.

Those working in community pharmacy, primary care and Health in Justice can further benefit by joining the Foundation Pharmacist Pathway 2020/21 as part of the programme. Find out more on the CPPE website.

New video group clinics elearning programme available

HEE, in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, ELC Works and Redmoor Health have launched the new Video Group Clinics (VGC) programme which includes new elearning resources and a toolkit developed for GPs, practice nurses, health and care professionals in community settings and care homes.

The elearning resources support the introduction of in different settings by providing learners with an overview and working knowledge of video group clinics and consultations: including the benefits, delivery principles and outcomes of introducing this practice.

Leading Effective Teams webinar

Join our interactive webinar Leading Effective Teams on Wednesday, 3 March 2021 from 1pm to 3pm.

This is the fourth instalment of the Learning to Lead in Health and Care series, run by NHS England and NHS Improvement, in partnership with the Council of Deans of Health, to support university and clinical educators in delivering leadership learning.

In this session you will be introduced to the latest thinking on team leadership in healthcare and have the opportunity to hear about innovative practice in the teaching of team leadership at Keele University, the University of Huddersfield and the University of Dundee – to help you get fresh ideas and perspectives for teaching leadership and teamwork.

The webinar will be delivered on Microsoft Teams and you can register here.

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.