About the National Child Measurement Programme

This programme consists of five audio recordings that have been produced to support school nurses, their teams and other professionals delivering the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP) to have supportive and constructive conversations with parents about their child’s weight status. The recordings can be used in conjunction with the guidance outlined in NCMP: a conversation framework for talking to parents and Annexe 1- common queries and challenges.

In these recordings, a practitioner (played by a health professional who works in child weight management) and a parent (played by an actor) have telephone conversations about their child’s weight after receiving an NCMP feedback letter. The recordings are fictional, but based on real-life examples, and are designed to help practitioners think about the different ways they can use the NCMP conversation framework to respond to parents’ concerns and to offer ongoing or further support.

How to access

Available to all

The National Child Measurement Programme programme is freely available to access here.
Please note your progress and completion of sessions will not be recorded and you will not be able to generate a record of completion. If you require evidence of learning, please register and then log in to access this programme on the elfh Hub.

If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the National Child Measurement Programme programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My elearning section.

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To view the National Child Measurement Programme 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.

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Not an NHS organisation?

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access 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 National Child Measurement Programme 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

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