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New patient safety elearning for mental health professionals

Posted on: October 9th, 2023 by Vanessa Bassnett No Comments

Mental Health professionals can now access new modules of the Patient Safety Syllabus training elearning sessions on the elfh portal which have been tailored to support the specific needs of their profession. 

The training supports thinking differently about what patient safety means and making healthcare even safer with patient safety case studies covering good practice, human factors, risk, systems thinking and safety culture. 

Content for both Levels 1 and 2 of the syllabus training have been updated and include improvements to usability, interactivity, and navigation and a certificate of completion and five sector specific patient safety case studies in total for Mental Health, Maternity, Healthcare mangers and administrative staff care, Primary Care and Acute Care. 

All updates to the content and functionality have been made in response to feedback from users. There is also a self-assessment for the Access to Practice module which learners must pass to move on to the sector-specific sessions and a Certificate of completion for each case study area. 

Patient safety is a collective responsibility and a key priority for health and care. This training is available to anyone NHS and Health care staff and supports the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, emphasising a proactive approach to identifying risks to safe care.  

MH session content covers:  

  • Mental health care in the NHS  
  • How we deliver care  
  • How things don’t go as planned  
  • Patient experience  
  • Systems in mental health care  
  • Safety culture in mental health care  
  • Human factors to improve safety  
  • Areas of special risk.  

More information about the Patient Safety Syllabus training and how to access to the elearning modules can be found here:  

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/patient-safety-syllabus-training/ 

 

 

TEL News September 2023

Posted on: October 5th, 2023 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

Our latest edition of TEL News includes new VR360 videos on pharmacy careers, new VHLF masterclasses, elearning on psychologically informed neonatal care plus updates to the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

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Safer management of medicines training for social care staff

Posted on: October 5th, 2023 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

A new elearning programme to help social care staff safely handle and administer medicines has been added to the NHS Learning Hub.

Focusing on patient safety, teamwork and providing person centred care, the four modules look at the risks involved in handling medicines and how to make medicines use safer for everyone.

The programme also explains some of the differences between handling medicines in residential care homes compared with nursing care homes.

Developed by NHS England, the four modules cover:

  • Module 1: Introduction to Handling Medicines Safely
  • Module 2: Administering Medication
  • Module 3: Ordering, receiving, storing and disposal of medicines
  • Module 4: Understanding Medicines

Each module takes between 30 and 60 minutes to complete and are aimed primarily at social care staff. However, informal carers, such as unpaid carers helping a family member, neighbour, or friend, should find the module on Administering Medication useful.

By the end of the programme learners will be able to describe their role and responsibilities in relation to managing medicines and describe the process of ordering, storing, administering, and disposing of medicines in different social care settings. They will also be able to describe the safe processes for the general use of medicines in social care settings.

For more information and to access the programme, please visit the Safe Management of Medicines for Social Care Staff programme page.

elfh is a NHS England programme in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies