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Care Certificate e-Learning programme launches Scenario Sessions

Posted on: September 12th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has launched five scenario sessions to support the application of the Care Certificate Standards.

The scenarios take place in a range of health and social care settings and include:

  • Primary care
  • Acute care
  • Community/home care
  • End-of-life care
  • Mental health care

The sessions have been written by practitioners working within these specific care settings and are based on the typical duties that a Care Certificate student is asked to perform. The scenarios complement the existing Care Certificate elearning programme knowledge-based sessions and provide students with the opportunity to apply the standards within a setting similar to their own, as well as to see how the standards are applied in other care environments.

Kay Fawcett, Clinical Lead for the Care Certificate elearning programme, said: “These scenarios have been completed following requests to support more specific application of the Care Certificate for care settings.

“Basing the scenarios in recognisable care environments will support the application of the standards of the Care Certificate across a wide variety of settings”.

The scenarios are available now on the elfh Hub and as AICC links for Trusts, to access them visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/care-certificate/. They will be available via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) in September 2018.

Learners that complete the scenarios are invited to provide their feedback via an online questionnaire: https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/care-certificate-elearning-programme-scenarios. The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete and the findings will be used to shape the scenarios to ensure they best meet learners’ needs.

For more information about the Care Certificate visit: https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/care-certificate

Final module added to Literature Searching e-learning programme

Posted on: September 11th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with librarians at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust to launch the final module within its Literature Searching elearning programme.

The Literature Searching programme aims to support health and social care professionals find evidence for their work and study.

Module 7, How to Search the Healthcare Databases, aims to pull together the learning from earlier modules within the programme and apply the skills learnt here to use the Healthcare Databases Advanced Search , which is provided through a partnership between HEE and NICE.

This final module can also be used in its own right by people who are familiar with literature searching but would like to try searching the Healthcare Databases for the first time or need to refresh their skills. Module 7 is accessible without having completed the earlier modules.

The resource is a mix of explanatory material, video demonstrations and opportunities to ‘check understanding’ via practice search screens.

To access the elearning visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/literature-searching/ . It will be available on ESR shortly.

If you require further assistance contact your local healthcare library team. Check the Health Library and Information Services Directory to find your local library.

If there is no arrangement in place, your key contact is the Regional Library and Knowledge Services lead :

HEE London and the South East louise.goswami@hee.nhs.uk
HEE Midlands and the East ruth.carlyle@hee.nhs.uk
HEE North david.stewart@nhs.net
HEE South helen.bingham@hee.nhs.uk

TEL News August 2018

Posted on: August 30th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

August’s issue of TEL News includes updates on the AI pilot, the Simulation-Based Education Framework and details of EC-TEL 2018 plus announcements about updates to the e-GP and Foundation elearning programmes.

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

Public Health Intelligence programme now live

Posted on: August 21st, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

An elearning programme that introduces the basic principles of using data and information to understand the health and wellbeing of the public is now available.

Public Health Intelligence will introduce learners to concepts of health, definitions of public health, population measures, uncertainty and statistical significance and how to use this to make informed decisions and apply intelligence to gain understanding of population need.

The programme supports the increased use of Public Health England’s (PHE) data and intelligence tools, and its wider training programmes.

It has been developed by PHE’s Local Knowledge and Intelligence Service to support the classroom-based foundation and intermediate level training courses and completion of this elearning programme is compulsory for all staff taking either of these courses.

More information about the courses, including booking information is available here: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/public-health-intelligence/

TEL News July 2018

Posted on: August 1st, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

This month’s edition includes an update on the Simulation-Based Education Framework, details of how colleagues can get involved with naming the Learning Solution and announcements of new elearning programmes including Proton Beam Therapy, NHS e-Referral Service and Paediatric Surgery.

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

Review and updates to General Practice (e-GP) e-learning programme

Posted on: July 31st, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) is working with subject matter experts to undertake a review of 48 sessions within the General Practice 2012 Curriculum (e-GP) elearning Programme.

This review includes elearning modules covering the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) curriculum such as Genetics in Primary Care, Care of People with Intellectual Disability, End of Life Care and others.

The sessions are being rewritten and updated by the RCGP and will be released to the HEE elfh Hub throughout 2018.

The e-GP resource provides a programme of elearning modules covering the RCGP curriculum. Each module is made up of reflective and interactive elearning sessions that enhance GP training and support preparation for appraisal and revalidation.

For more information about the e-GP programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/general-practitioners/.

Updated pain management e-learning programme

Posted on: July 19th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The elearning programme “e-PAIN” that was developed by the Faculty of Pain Medicine, The British Pain Society and Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) is the place to start for anyone working in the NHS who wishes to better understand and manage pain.

e-PAIN is a multidisciplinary programme based on the International Association for the Study of Pain’s recommended multidisciplinary curriculum for healthcare professionals learning about pain management. Registration to the programme is free to all NHS staff members.

e-PAIN uniquely distils the knowledge of a range of professionals into 12 modules made up of interactive sessions to meet the needs of a multidisciplinary audience. The modules cover knowledge ranging from how to manage acute pain well, through to in-depth learning about common pain conditions and moves on to cover how to manage pain in specialist areas, such as pain in cancer or pain in childhood.

e-PAIN is current, up to date and presented in an interactive way to make both basic and specialist knowledge accessible.

Any e-PAIN module can be completed stand alone and a downloadable certificate is available upon completion of each module. Most sessions take on average 30 minutes to complete and each module has on average five sessions.

For more information about the elearning programme and for details of how to access the programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/pain-management/

Paediatric Surgery e-learning programme now live

Posted on: July 18th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

An elearning resource for trainee paediatric surgeons and other healthcare professionals involved in the surgical care of children is now available.

The Paediatric Surgery programme aims to provide an overview for healthcare professionals working in primary, secondary and tertiary care involved in the surgical care of children. The programme is compiled of three modules which cover the following topics: Introduction to Paediatric Surgery; General Surgery of Childhood and Specialist Paediatric Surgery. Modules are interactive and structured so the learner focuses on key objectives within each subject.

The programme has been developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) in partnership with the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons

The elearning programme is available to access via the elfh Hub and ESR. AICC links are also available for this programme. Please email support@e-lfh.org.uk for more details.

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

Free Care Certificate e-learning programme for health and care workforce

Posted on: July 16th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) is reminding the health and care workforce about the free elearning programme that supports the theoretical standards of the Care Certificate.

The Care Certificate is an identified set of standards that the health and care workforce adhere to in their daily working life. The Care Certificate was developed to provide structured and consistent learning to ensure that care workers have the same introductory skills, knowledge and behaviours to provide compassionate, safe, quality care and support.

The Care Certificate consists of 15 standards, all of which individuals need to complete in full before they can be awarded their certificate. The standards require both theoretical study and practical application within the student’s place of work.

The Care Certificate elearning programme has been developed to further support the theoretical component of each standard of the Care Certificate, and is freely available to staff in the health and care sectors. It is based on the Care Certificate workbook, which was developed by Health Education England, Skills for Care and Skills for Health.

For more information about the Care Certificate visit: https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/care-certificate and for details on how to register for the free Care Certificate elearning programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/care-certificate/

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