The elearning programme “e-PAIN” from 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 distills the knowledge of a range of professionals into 11 modules made up of interactive sessions to meet the needs of a multidisciplinary audience. The modules cover knowledge ranging from managing acute pain well, through to learning in depth about common pain conditions and moves on to cover how to manage pain in specialist areas, including 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.

e-PAIN is a collaboration between the Faculty of Pain Medicine, the British Pain Society and HEE elfh.

For further information, please visit: http://www.fpm.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/e-pain

For more information about elfh please click here.

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with the British Association of Dermatologists to develop three new sessions as part of its elearning programme looking at the diagnosis and management of dermatological disorders.

The new sessions cover: Introduction to psychosocial management in dermatology; Psychosocial assessment in dermatology practice; and Psychological interventions for dermatology patients.

The elearning resource, aimed at healthcare professionals working with patients with skin conditions and other members of the NHS workforce, is based on the Joint Royal Colleges of Physicians Training Board curriculum in dermatology.

The programme includes more than 160 sessions, which cover topics including management of melanoma, acne, and psoriasis.

NHS clinicians and students can access the free learning resources. Please click here.

Health Education England has worked with UCLPartners and NHS mental and physical health experts to develop a suite of educational material for use across primary and secondary NHS health settings.

“Breaking Down the Barriers” aims to support education across the NHS workforce by providing the training materials to enhance existing skills, increase knowledge for early recognition, assessment, management and signposting of mental and physical health needs of patients.

A key aim of this work is to facilitate and encourage collaborative working and the sharing of resources and training delivery arrangement between NHS Trusts. The education and training materials cover the following areas:

* Mental Health awareness in emergency and urgent care settings
* Physical Health awareness in mental health settings
* Child and Adolescent mental health awareness training for GP practices in primary care
* Child and Adolescent learning disabilities awareness training for GP practices in primary care

The resources are a combination of classroom training, videos, simulation training, presentations, case based scenarios, case studies, tutorials and quizzes.

Breaking Down the Barriers awareness training packages and associated materials are available as a free downloadable resource from HEE elearning for healthcare for use across primary and secondary care settings.

To access the resources please click here.

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with the British Pharmacological Society to develop an elearning programme based on the principles of clinical pharmacology that underpin safe and effective prescribing.

“Prescribe” provides elearning materials to help healthcare students to develop a firm grounding in the principles of clinical pharmacology and use of medicines more generally. The elearning resource contains both interactive learning sessions and information designed to support students in achieving the relevant knowledge and skills outcomes.

The elearning programme is intended to complement existing teaching initiatives and is made available free of charge to students registered with UK universities and NHS-affiliated organisations.

Prescribe is based on the learning outcomes set out in Outcomes for Graduates (originally published in Tomorrow’s Doctors 2009). These reflect earlier proposals made by the Safe Prescribing Working Group, convened by the Medical Schools Council in 2007, and are set out in greater detail within the British Pharmacological Society’s curriculum for medical students.

These competencies include the ability to:

* establish an accurate drug history
* plan appropriate therapy for common indications
* write a safe and legal prescription
* appraise critically the prescribing of others
* calculate appropriate doses
* provide patients with appropriate information
* access reliable information about medicines
* detect and report adverse drug reactions.

Prescribe will also provide material that is relevant to UK final year medical students preparing to sit the Prescribing Safety Assessment and is also aligned to many of the competencies highlighted in the recently published Prescribing Competency Framework.

To access the elearning click here.