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More users than ever accessing the HEE e-LfH Hub

Posted on: January 8th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) programme is riding a surge in its elearning usage with more users than ever accessing the HEE elfh Hub!

HEE elfh works in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies including Royal Colleges and associations, NHS organisations, charities and other health and care organisations, to support patient care by providing elearning to educate and train the health and care workforce.

In October 2019, there were 911,263 session launches on the HEE elfh Hub, making it the most successful month in elearning for healthcare’s history. October’s usage is the continuation of another triumphant 12 months for HEE elfh, with a staggering 13.8 million elearning sessions launched between July 2018 and June 2019 on the elfh Hub alone. This level of activity is testament to the increasing demand for high-quality elearning content for the health and care workforce.

HEE elfh’s programmes provide an “anytime, anywhere” learning opportunity for those working in health and social care. The content is created by a team of experts to enhance traditional learning and support existing teaching methods, with many programmes also including an e-assessment option providing learners and trainers with evidence of progress.

HEE elfh’s programmes are available to access free of charge on the HEE elfh Hub, the Electronic Staff Record, on local systems using AICC links and via OpenAthens.

For more information about HEE elfh, including a full list of elearning programmes, visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/.

Enrolment for level 3 safeguarding adults free online course is live

Posted on: December 20th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The first run of the level 3 safeguarding adults free online course starts on Monday 27 January 2020.

The course lasts for three weeks with weekly study time of one hour.

Health and care staff can enrol now at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/level-3-safeguarding-adults/1.

The online course contributes towards the achievement of level 3 safeguarding competencies, as set out in Safeguarding for Adults: Roles and Competencies.

Topics covered include:

* Taking part in, and contributing to, wider multi-disciplinary safeguarding meetings
* The challenges of complex safeguarding concerns
* How communication, information sharing and confidentiality contribute to effective safeguarding
* Professional and contemporaneous safeguarding documentation
* Reflective practice and the role of supervision in safeguarding

Developed in partnership with the Safeguarding Adults National Network, this online course is one of a set of national resources for level 3 and 4 safeguarding adults training that HEE is making freely available to all health and care staff.

Accompanying the level 3 online course, will be a facilitator guide to run complementary face to face training in your organisation. This will be made available on the elfh Hub from the end of January 2020.

For level 4 safeguarding adults, staff will be able to access a gap analysis tool to discover relevant resources based on their current knowledge and skills, log their work-based learning and have access to a programme of live webinars on ‘hot topics’ running throughout 2020.

For more information please email tel@hee.nhs.uk.

TEL News December 2019

Posted on: December 20th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

December’s issue of TEL News includes details of Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare’s surge in usage plus an update on the Learning Hub. There is also an announcement of a new elearning programme, Helping People Living in Cold Homes.

Select the following link to access our full publication of TEL News.

Foundation programme - December 2019 update

Posted on: December 20th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Welcome to your December 2019 update about the Foundation elearning programme that has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and is approved by UKFPO.

Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? If so, why not try some of our free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

The sessions in the Foundation elearning programme – Professional Capability: 20 Contributes to quality improvement; the elearning sessions look at audit and evidence-based practice. It outlines the study designs used in medical practice. You are provided with a guide to developing a structured research strategy which will help you find journal articles relevant to your clinical questions. How to evaluate a journal article is discussed using a linked example paper from the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Sessions:

* Audit
* Evidence Based Medicine in Clinical Practice
* Common Study Designs in Clinical Research
* Explaining Evidence/Guidelines/Protocols to Patients
* Guidelines in Clinical Practice
* Searching the Literature and Locating Papers
* How to Review a Paper

You can sign in to the elearning with your login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

Midwifery Identification, Stabilisation and Transfer of the Sick Newborn (MIST)

Posted on: November 5th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to develop an elearning programme to support maternity and emergency teams treating unexpectedly unwell babies in community settings.

The Midwifery Identification, Stabilisation and Transfer of the Sick Newborn (MIST) programme is aimed at midwifery and ambulance colleagues to support the treatment plan for newborn babies who are, or have the potential to become, unwell following delivery in a community setting. The resources are designed to equip maternity and emergency teams with the knowledge required to extend care beyond the first minutes after birth, up to and including handover to the neonatal team.

The programme consists of four elearning sessions and covers several clinical scenarios from normal health to significant illness. It is expected that by completing all four sessions within this programme, healthcare professionals will be able to:

  • Recognise normal and abnormal infant colour (anaemia and cyanosis)
  • Recognise normal and abnormal feeding patterns and abdominal signs
  • Support an infant born unexpectedly preterm
  • Support a baby born in an unexpectedly poor condition.

Each session will cover identification, management including stabilisation and communication, and transfer to a neonatal unit.

For more information about the programme, including details of how to access the elearning sessions, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/midwifery-identification-stabilisation-and-transfer-of-the-sick-newborn/.

New content added to e-Endoscopy

Posted on: November 5th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has been working with the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy at the Royal College of Physicians to add new content to the Endoscopy elearning programme.

The e-Endoscopy programme provides an interactive learning resource for health professionals involved in the delivery of endoscopy services. The courses cover a range of subject areas that are linked to knowledge competencies required by endoscopists, endoscopy trainers and endoscopy nurses and have been carefully aligned with existing recommendations for endoscopy training in the UK.

The new modules cover five sessions which form an essential part of the JETS workforce programme:

JETS workforce:

  • Patient Pre-assessment for GI Endoscopy
  • Infection Control
  • Role of Assistant and Diathermy
  • Improving Quality and Safety in Endoscopy
  • Decontamination Foundation

Over the coming months further sessions will be launched to support teaching in the following areas:

  • Capsule Endoscopy
  • Sub-specialties such as EUS
  • Improving Safety and Reducing Error in Endoscopy (ISREE)

For more information about the Endoscopy programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/endoscopy/.

NHS Project and Change Academy e-learning programme now live

Posted on: November 5th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has developed an elearning programme for NHS staff about project and change management activities.

This suite of specially designed and selected modules aims to provide all NHS staff with a clear and consistent understanding of the fundamentals of project and change management activities to enable them to have a greater impact on delivering successful change.

These modules are just one method of building project and change capability within the NHS workforce and are available for anyone working in health and care. All modules may be of interest and benefit to those either at the beginning of their careers, or those who are currently in a project related role but do not hold official qualifications in this subject matter (non-project professionals).

All modules are aligned to professional body standards including the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Change Management Institute (CMI), Best Management Practice guides and government standards set by HM Treasury and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority.

This suite of core skills elearning modules forms part of a wider NHS Project Delivery Profession offering. For more information on the profession, join the community and head to the Capability Development Group.

The elearning programme includes the following modules:

  • Getting Started: Projects and Change
  • Key Ingredients for Project Success
  • Project Leadership: The Role of the Senior Responsible Owner
  • Introduction to Benefits Management
  • Introduction to Change Management

Each module should take between 30-40 minutes to complete and there is a short self-assessment at the end of each module.

For more information about the programme, including how to access, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/nhs-project-and-change-academy/.

e-Learning to help people living in cold homes

Posted on: November 5th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Around three million people in England live in homes that are too cold. The health effects are enormous – people can end up visiting their GP more, being admitted to hospital, becoming depressed, or even dying because they are just not warm enough at home.

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with Public Health England (PHE) to develop the Helping People Living in Cold Homes elearning programme for health and care professionals.

The elearning resource supports health and social care professionals to put National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance into practice.

Aimed at health and care staff who undertake home visits, the resource provides information on local services that can assist people living in cold homes, such as installing insulation, improving heating systems or helping reduce energy bills.

It also helps people spot the signs of a cold home – including less obvious ones.

With this information, staff can have a conversation with people whose health may be affected by being too cold at home, and signpost them to the relevant local services.

For more information about the elearning programme, including details on how to access, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/cold-homes/.

New Radiation Protection for Vascular Surgeons e-learning programme now live

Posted on: November 5th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) to develop a programme designed to raise awareness amongst the vascular surgery community of the hazards associated with exposure to ionising radiation.

The programme, which takes into account the latest changes in safety legislation, is aimed at vascular surgery trainees and will also benefit more experienced surgeons.

The eight elearning sessions include principles of ionising radiation, patient safety regulations and preoperative contrast imaging. Each session takes around 30 minutes to complete and includes assessment questions.

The course has been accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for up to 4.0 CPD points.

You can access the elearning here: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/radiation-protection-for-vascular-surgeons/

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