This month’s edition includes details of Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare’s role in the COVID-19 vaccine plus information of a new national strategic vision for simulation and immersive technologies. There is also news of the first blended training programme for occupational therapists in perinatal mental health and details of recent updates to the Care Certificate programme.
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Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh), in partnership with the ASHN Network, have collaborated to develop a new, free elearning programme for perinatal healthcare professionals.
The PReCePT: Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour elearning programme, released in line with World Prematurity Day, has been designed for perinatal healthcare professionals to support education around the administration of magnesium sulphate to mothers in preterm labour for neonatal neuroprotection.
Building on current NICE guidance, and the successful roll out of the national PReCePT programme by the AHSN Network, this module will guide clinicians through the clinical benefits of administering magnesium sulphate (MgSO4) to mothers who go into labour before 30 weeks gestation. It will provide information on the neuroprotective qualities of this cost-effective and readily available drug, the detail of how it is administered and the positive impact it can have on the lives of neonates and their families. This resource will be invaluable for training new staff and will be vital in sustaining high uptakes of MgSO4 across the NHS.
How to access the elearning
The PReCePT: Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour is available to the health and care workforce via the elearning for healthcare Hub, AICC and the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).
You can learn more about the elearning programme here: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/prevention-of-cerebral-palsy-in-preterm-labour/.
Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.
In this bulletin we will provide:
Weekly messages from HEE:
Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.
Despite COVID, we recognise that we must continue to deliver manifesto and mandated priorities
We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:
HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance
We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees.
This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance. Please note that this guidance will be updated weekly, on a Thursday morning. It is not the intention to send on email every week so please continue to check the page for updates.
One career endless opportunities #Choose GP
Applications for Round 1 2021 GP specialty training open on the 2 November – 1 December 2020. Please ‘like’ and follow the #Choose GP Facebook page to keep up to date with news and views and please forward this information to any doctors who may be thinking about career options. Find out more about the GP National Recruitment Office (GPNRO). We also have a number of GPs and trainees who are able to help with local or general enquiries – Please email Daryl Barrett at gprecruitment@hee.nhs.uk to be put in touch.
Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme to support GP trainees
The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) is an initiative that will offer a one-off payment of £20,000 to GP Specialty Trainees committed to working in a select number of training locations in England that either have a past history of under-recruitment or are in under-doctored or deprived areas. HEE, in partnership with NHSE/I, has agreed to provide 500 places across England for 2021/22, the largest number of places offered so far under the scheme. Find out more about the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme on our website.
Speciality recruitment webinar
A webinar was held on 21 October on the changes to specialty recruitment this year. Almost 3,000 trainees joined the webinar and we received in excess of 230 questions on the night.
The webinar recording is now available on the specialty training website along with answers to questions received on the night and individual specialty recruitment plans.
New blended training programme
HEE and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have worked together to create the first blended training programme for occupational therapists in perinatal mental health.
Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update
The Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme launched this autumn to support pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This programme will also help to accelerate pharmacist early years’ education and training reform, in line with the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.
A key challenge for provisional pharmacists is to balance adapting to their new role in the workplace alongside preparing for the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment. The programme has therefore been designed to ensure that most of the learning happens in the workplace while providing a host of online resources, to help participants balance their personal development with their work commitments.
We are determined to give provisional pharmacists access to quality, evidence-based information as part of the IFPP. All participants are given access to OpenAthens, the SCRIPT elearning programme for Foundation Pharmacists and a library of resources on the NHS Learning Hub.
Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme and find out more on the IFPP website.
The programme team is sending weekly updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.
We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:
New NHS Education Contract – moving towards implementation
Through the summer, HEE ran an engagement exercise to seek the views and advice of partners to help with the development of the new NHS Education Contract. This concluded in September and we have now entered into a new ‘Implementation phase’, leading up to the introduction of the new contract for 1 April 2021. To help with implementation, a new ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ document has been added to the HEE website to address the most common questions you may have about the new contract. This will be reviewed regularly, and if you have a question that is not answered in this document then please email it to educationcontract@hee.nhs.uk for a response.
New national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training have come into force.
The new national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training took effect on 1 November and apply to all new starters from August 2020. Working closely with the BMA and other stakeholders, the policy aims to bring a single, consistent approach to relocation and expenses payments. This policy will replace the existing 13 individual funding arrangements that currently exist across the country. Find out more about the new national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training.
HEE National Education and Training Survey
The HEE National Education and Training Survey (NETS) runs from 3 – 30 November with a new strapline – Let’s talk – and we need your help promoting it to healthcare trainees and students. Find out more about the National Education and Training Survey.
HEE Star training success leads to a further, system-based roll out
Following the successful delivery of training in the HEE Star to those with relevant expertise across the AHSN Network, a further training offer has now been developed for colleagues leading workforce redesign in local health and care systems.
In We Are the NHS: People Plan 2020/21, HEE committed to training up to 50% of STP/ICS workforce leads in the Star methodology; a workforce redesign process developed to systematically address the numerous and varied workforce challenges facing providers.
Between November this year and March 2021, 126 nominated delegates from systems across the country will be trained in the established Star methodology, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to lead a structured approach to workforce redesign at local Provider and system level.
In addition to this, an optional ‘train the trainer’ programme is in development and will be available as a further module for attendees, allowing spread of the learning within organisations and across systems.
Attendance is being coordinated at system-level with the support of HEE regional transformation leads, to ensure all systems have the opportunity to benefit from the training and are able to prioritise representatives to attend.
Engagement with the offer has been overwhelming, with almost 200 nominations for training received to date and requests for additional training places going forward. All cohorts originally scheduled for this year are now fully reserved with over 70% of systems already registered. In response to this fantastic level of interest, 72 extra training places will be added to meet demand between December 2020 and June 2020, with a commitment to schedule additional cohorts if required – helping to build the collective capacity and expertise alongside AHSN colleagues, to go further and faster to meet the workforce redesign challenge. In the meantime, organisations can contact their regional HEE Workforce Transformation teams for support and guidance.
New framework to strengthen mental health support services
HEE has published new guidance to help expand and boost the quality of mental health support services. The new competence framework aims to strengthen training and help drive recruitment and diversity within the mental health peer support workforce, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and People Plan.
Genomics 101: Understand the role of genomics in healthcare
The use of genomics within healthcare is expanding, moving out of specialist areas and into routine care through the introduction of the Genomic Medicine Service in England (GMS). As a result, more healthcare professionals and their patients will encounter it than ever before.
The Genomics Education Programme has launched a collection of nine introductory courses as part of its Genomics 101 series, which aims to provide an overview of the fundamentals of genomics and its applications in healthcare. Created for those with little or no previous knowledge of the subject, each course focuses on a key aspect of genomics and its use in healthcare.
All nine Genomics 101 courses last 30-40 minutes each, are available through the elfh platform and are free to access for NHS staff and those within universities in the UK. A certificate of participation is available on completion of each course.
Please share far and wide especially across primary care networks as they would benefit the most from these courses.
We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:
New elearning on Perinatal Post-mortem Consent
HEE elfh has worked with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and Keele University to develop a new elearning resource to support health professionals who are required to discuss perinatal post-mortem consent with bereaved families.
Losing a baby is a most difficult time for parents and it can be challenging for health professionals to support parents adequately at this time of intense grief. Health professionals may find discussing a post-mortem with families particularly difficult.
This elearning programme aims to improve the knowledge and confidence of health professionals speaking to parents which will enable parents to make a well-informed decision.
All content within this elearning module has been mapped against the learning outcomes stipulated by the Human Tissue Authority and Sands for perinatal post-mortem consent training.
Upon completion of the elearning package professionals who will be obtaining perinatal post-mortem consent will:
Visit the Perinatal Post-mortem Consent programme page for more information about the programme, including access details.
elearning programme to support the transition of families from neonatal units to home
The Institute of Health Visiting and Tiny Lives Trust have worked in partnership with HEE elfh to develop a new elearning session for health visitors working with families to transition from neonatal units to home.
The elearning session aims to raise awareness of the health visitor’s role in supporting sick and preterm babies. It is intended to complement existing elearning for healthcare training programmes, which are referred to during the session.
The resource was coproduced in partnership with parents of babies who have been on neonatal units.
For more information about the resources, including access details, please visit the elfh website.
Learning Hub – Microsoft Teams guidance for remote teaching
The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.
Colleagues across health and care have been uploading resources. There are now over 700 resources available for the health and care workforce to access and share with colleagues.
As a result of the pandemic there has been a closure of physical learning spaces and the difficulty to conduct face to face teaching saw a need arise to provide the NHS workforce with a more flexible and blended approach to education now and in the future. Health Education England (HEE) has contributed a suite of training resources to the Learning Hub on the adoption of Microsoft Teams to deliver effective collaborative working and online training delivery during the pandemic and beyond.
The Learning Hub is a platform that enables rapid dissemination and widens reach across the health and care sector, increasing adoption of useful learning resources.
Take a look:
Using Microsoft Teams for remote teaching and virtual classrooms. This resource includes a Microsoft Quick Start Guide and other resources to get started.
Training resources for trainers using Microsoft Teams to deliver remote teaching days.
Contributing a resource is a really easy process and only takes a few minutes. The resource can then be shared with and accessed by thousands of colleagues working across the sector.
If you have a resource to share, contribute it by logging in to the Learning Hub. You can sign into the Learning Hub either using your existing elearning for healthcare or NHS OpenAthens username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.
If you would like further information about uploading content, please contact the Learning Hub team.
For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.
FURTHER INFORMATION
By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.
Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.
Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.
In this bulletin we will provide:
Weekly messages from HEE:
Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.
There is a future beyond COVID-19 and we have to be ready for it
We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:
HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance
We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees.
This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance. Please note that this guidance will be updated weekly, on a Thursday morning. It is not the intention to send on email every week so please continue to check the page for updates.
One career endless opportunities #Choose GP
Applications for Round 1 2021 GP specialty training open on the 2 November – 1 December 2020. Please ‘like’ and follow the #Choose GP Facebook page to keep up to date with news and views and please forward this information to any doctors who may be thinking about career options. Find out more about the GP National Recruitment Office (GPNRO). We also have a number of GPs and trainees who are able to help with local or general enquiries – Please email Daryl Barrett at gprecruitment@hee.nhs.uk to be put in touch.
Dr You campaign launch
Health Education England has launched a new campaign to raise the aspirations of young people to consider becoming a doctor. Resources include videos and other information and provide a useful guide for young people.
Resources include videos of doctors from different backgrounds reflecting on how they got into a medical career, and information aimed at the students themselves, their families, and teachers. Take a look at the Dr You campaign
HEE appoints four influential nurse leaders
Health Education England (HEE) is delighted to announce the appointments of four regional Heads of Nursing and Midwifery, they are:
Working closely with HEE’s Chief Nurse, Mark Radford they will play a key role in the development of Nursing and Midwifery policy for this priority area and work to support the Government ambition to recruit 50,000 nurses.
A further step toward an alternative route into nursing
Health Education England’s (HEE) Blended Learning Nursing Degree, an innovative national programme to train nurses of the future, has moved to the next stage.
Using a mix of technologies to study with important practice experience, this degree will provide opportunities to more people who have the right aptitude and values but need to study flexibly, pursue a career in nursing.
At a collaborative event last week/month [25/9/2020] a partnership of seven universities, HEE and others discussed the next steps to delivery of the programme, while beginning to build a network for knowledge sharing and best practice.
Universities are working towards the first students starting their courses from early 2021. HEE Blended Learning
Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update
We are really encouraged by the number of provisional registrants that have signed up to the Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme (IFPP) at this stage, and new registrations continue to roll in. The IFPP is a new HEE-funded education and training programme, designed to support the 2019/20 cohort of pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme also provides a unique opportunity to accelerate pharmacist early years’ education and training reform and supports delivery of the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.
HEE-funded resources are being developed and shared, to prepare all eligible participants for their regulatory assessment in the first quarter of 2021 and to support their professional development. The IFPP library of resources is now live on the NHS Learning Hub, while access to NHS OpenAthens has been secured for all participants. This library is available to all, irrespective of their employment status
We are also providing free access to the RPS Provisional Registrations Service Support Line. This is a dedicated support line for provisionally registered pharmacists, staffed by the RPS professional support team.
Another key benefit of the IFPP is access to education supervision for those who do not have access to established foundation training programmes through their employer.
More information including FAQs and the registration form are published on the IFPP website.
Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme.
The programme team is sending weekly updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.
HEE Annual Report
The HEE annual report is now published and so we can look back at some of our key success of the last year. It has been an unprecedented time in the NHS in the last few months due to the impact of COVID-19 on services, the workforce and of course patients. HEE’s people played their role by helping over 30,000 students and trainees offer their services to the front line. We have worked in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Department of Health and Social Care, HEIs, employers and professional regulators to support the system when it needed it most. We also provided global education through our HEE-elearning for healthcare Covid-19 programme, free of charge.
We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:
Students on placement – ‘essential worker’ status and access to COVID tests
The DHSC has updated its guidance to make it explicit that students on placement should be regarded as essential workers and be given the same priority access to COVID tests as other healthcare workers. This guidance may help if a student needs a test and there are issues gaining access to one.
Funding through COVID – recap
At the outbreak of the pandemic, HEE committed to continuing to provide its education and training payments irrespective of how that education and training is delivered.
From 1 September (and 1 August in some cases), we went back to making payments based on the volume and type of activity that is undertaken. Activity driven payments are now, and will continue to be, HEE’s default funding approach as we continue to support providers through the pandemic response.
For full information about the financial arrangements, please visit the Funding section of the HEE website.
National Education and Training Survey (NETS)
The HEE National Education and Training Survey (NETS) 2020 runs throughout November (3rd-30th). This is the only national survey open to all healthcare trainees and students across all clinical learning environments The NETS gathers opinions from students about their time in clinical placements, asking them to provide feedback on what worked well and what they think could be improved. Survey results offer universities, colleges, healthcare placement providers and HEE further insight into the quality of the clinical learning environment.
This year, as students may be undertaking clinical placements during pandemic surges, the survey provides an additional opportunity to understand their experience and any impact on the quality of training. Please help by promoting this to students and trainees – Complete the survey (Opens 3 November)
Step into the NHS competition winners
A 10-year-old girl from Devon has been named national winner in HEE’s annual contest designed to help primary school children learn about roles in the NHS. Lucy Stephenson used her creativity to create an inspiring song about some of the jobs within the NHS and scooped top prize. Find out more about Lucy’s Step into the NHS competition win.
Meanwhile in the competition for Secondary schools, Four pupils from The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool, have been named national winners in the contest designed to help young people consider a career in the NHS after creating a fun and informative video to showcase the role of an NHS innovation consultant. Find out more about the Step into the NHS secondary school competition winners.
Quality Strategy Refresh
During November HEE will be hosting several stakeholder workshop sessions to explore the key areas our Quality strategy and framework need to cover and to hear from you, our partners, about your own work in this space.
Our aim is to work collaboratively to ensure our approach to education and training is truly multi-professional, to engage as widely as possible, and ultimately, to co-create a Quality strategy and framework that supports high quality education and training in the learning environment.
Please let us know which virtual session you would like to attend by completing this short form.
New competence framework for mental health peer support workers
Health Education England has published new guidance to help expand and boost the quality of mental health support services. The new competence framework aims to strengthen training and help drive recruitment and diversity within the mental health peer support workforce, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and People Plan.
Library and Knowledge specialist give health professionals the gift of time
Health professionals are being given an invaluable gift of time a report to and All-Party Parliamentary Group learned this week/month [Mon 2 Nov 2020] with the publication of a report clearly outlining the true value NHS Library and Knowledge Services.
Librarians and knowledge specialists make the gathering of information as easy as possible for healthcare professionals, relieving the burden of sourcing and synthesising evidence while enabling NHS organisations to meet their statutory obligations to get evidence into practice across the service.
Health Education England (HEE) commissioned the report Library and Knowledge Services Value Proposition: The Gift of Time.
Looking to build your knowledge of genomics in healthcare?
The Genomics Education Programme has a limited number of funded Master’s-level CPPD courses and qualifications in genomics available through their partner universities. Open to all NHS employees in England, funding is available for courses that commence before 31st March 2021.You can find out more about the modules available, funding options and how to apply on the Genomics Education Programme website.
We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:
Care Certificate sessions re-designed to support mobile phone users
HEE elfh has worked with Care Certificate leads in Health Education England and Skills for Care to ensure the Care Certificate elearning sessions are easy to access on a mobile phone. The re-design was initiated by feedback from learners and educational leads and reflects the different ways our users are now accessing learning.
The Care Certificate programme is a set of core standards that health and social care support workers adhere to during their daily working life.
The elearning programme underpins the theoretical learning for each standard, and there are also scenarios which support its completion in a wide range of care settings.
Designed with the unregistered workforce in mind, the Care Certificate was developed to provide standardised, structured learning at the beginning of a career in care. This aims to ensure that care workers have the same introduction to fundamental skills, knowledge and behaviours to support the provision of compassionate, safe, quality care to the individuals in their care.
The re-designed sessions include the same learning objectives and content as the previous versions and are suitable for learners accessing the resource on a desktop, laptop and tablet as well as on a mobile phone.
More information about the Care Certificate elearning programme is available here.
SCRIPT – supporting safer prescribing practices in primary and secondary care settings
The SCRIPT elearning programme provides portfolios of modules specifically for healthcare professionals working in primary and secondary care settings.
The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) Working Group on education reviewed different types of digital learning used to teach rational prescribing and assessed their effect on learner-related and clinically relevant outcomes.
The EACPT working group concluded that: “elearning is the most-used type of digital learning for safe and effective prescribing education and is efficacious in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate prescribers the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes.”
SCRIPT modules cover a range of topics relating to prescribing, therapeutics and medicines safety and are categorised into different themes. Modules are suitable for any prescriber or anybody in training to be a prescriber, for example. foundation trainees, undergraduate medical students, doctors and non-medical prescribers.
Themes include:
Each module takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. All course materials have been authored by a team of expert healthcare professionals and are regularly reviewed and updated.
What are the benefits in using the SCRIPT elearning programmes?
How do I access the elearning?
You can access the SCRIPT elearning programmes by visiting the SCRIPT website.
Updates to the Foundation elearning programme
HEE elfh has worked with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to update three sessions within the Foundation elearning programme.
The Foundation elearning programme is a free elearning resource for Foundation doctors.
All sessions are mapped directly to the 2016 Foundation Curriculum and the material is approved by UKFPO.
The following sessions have recently been updated:
For more information about the programme, including access details, visit the Foundation programme page.
New elearning programme will help physiotherapists treat patients with respiratory problems including COVID-19
HEE elfh has worked in partnership with the University of Southampton, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust to develop a free Respiratory Physiotherapy elearning programme to support physiotherapists treating patients with respiratory conditions, including COVID-19.
The sessions are designed to support existing and newly qualified physiotherapists who want to update their respiratory knowledge and skills to help prepare them for working in daily and emergency out of hours respiratory care.
The programme includes an introduction to respiratory assessment and the clinical reasoning process, plus more detailed modules about auscultation, chest x-rays and arterial blood gas analysis, which play a significant part in assessment and help to analyse a patient’s respiratory problems.
Further topics covered are:
There is also a paediatric module which covers the differences in anatomy and physiology when assessing and treating an infant.
For more information about the programme, including details on how to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/respiratory-physiotherapy/.
elearning programme available to support health and care colleagues in identifying and responding to child sexual exploitation
HEE elfh worked in partnership with Brook, the leading young person’s sexual health and wellbeing charity, to update existing elearning resources designed to support educators, health and care professionals and community workers in identifying victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE).
The CSE elearning programme aims to build the skills and confidence required by educators, health and care professionals and community workers to identify child victims of exploitation, respond to disclosures and take action if they suspect a young person is at risk.
elearning modules within the programme include:
On average, each CSE elearning module takes 15 minutes to complete, delivered in interactive formats. You can also test your knowledge at the end of a module and gain access to a resource bank to support you in your work.
Learn more about the Child Sexual Exploitation elearning programme.
The Child Sexual Exploitation Programme is also available to the health and care workforce via AICC and the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).
Learning Hub – mental health resources recently contributed
The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.
Colleagues across health and care have been uploading resources. There are now over 700 resources available for the health and care workforce to access and share with colleagues.
Health Education England’s mental health team has recently contributed a suite of resources to the Learning Hub including:
New Roles in Mental Health resources, products and tools
Multi professional approved clinician implementation pack
Good practice in new workforce roles
Transforming mental health social work
Contributing a resource is a really easy process and only takes a few minutes. The resource can then be shared with and accessed by thousands of colleagues working across the sector.
If you have a resource to share, contribute it by logging in to the Learning Hub. You can sign into the Learning Hub either using your existing elearning for healthcare or NHS OpenAthens username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.
If you would like further information about uploading content, please contact the Learning Hub team.
For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.
Feedback sought on Coronavirus programme
HEE elearning for healthcare has created ten surveys to gather feedback from users on its Coronavirus elearning programme. The programme launched in March 2020 and is freely available to all colleagues working in the NHS, independent sector and social care. The surveys are aimed at all health and care professionals and take just five minutes to complete:
FURTHER INFORMATION
By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.
Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.
October’s issue of TEL News includes details of new and updated content on the Coronavirus programme and news of additional resources contributed to the Learning Hub. There is also details of a new Freedom to Speak Up programme plus new content added to the Radiation Protection for Cardiology programme.
Read the full issue of October’s TEL News.
Since 2019, Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) have been working with NHS Digital to develop the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) elearning programme.
This free elearning programme aims to upskill NHS ATP administrators to use the Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection service.
In addition to the five initial sessions, HEE elfh and NHS Digital have now launched further content to add to the programme.
The latest session ‘PowerBI Reporting’ covers using Power BI to extract data with ATP’s reporting Application Programming Interface (API), and present this data using charts and visualisations or export it for manipulation in software such as Excel.
The programme currently consists of the following six sessions with more planned for the future.
The Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection service, included within the Windows 10 licencing deal purchased centrally by the Department of Health and Social Care, is for the benefit of local NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole. It is part of a broader portfolio of data and cyber security services managed by NHS Digital. ATP Administrators across the NHS would benefit from being upskilled in using ATP’s features and its dashboards so they can further advance their organisational resilience to cyber security threats.
For more information about the elearning programme, including details of how to access it, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/advanced-threat-protection/.
Welcome to Health Education England’s (HEE) stakeholder bulletin.
In this bulletin we will provide:
This week’s stakeholder message was guest-edited by Lee Whitehead, Director of People and Communications, covering Wendy Reid, our Interim Chief Executive. Lee highlights the programme to make HEE the Best Place to Work and welcoming Navina Evans, HEE’s new Chief Executive, on the 1 October. Read the weekly message on the HEE website.
A further step toward an alternative route into nursing
HEE’s Blended Learning Nursing Degree, an innovative national programme to train nurses of the future, has moved to the next stage.
Using a mix of technologies to study with important practice experience, this degree will provide opportunities to more people who have the right aptitude and values but need to study flexibly, pursue a career in nursing.
At a collaborative event on 25 September, with seven universities, HEE and others discussed the next steps to delivery of the programme. Universities are working towards the first students starting their courses from early 2021.
New guide to help overseas nurses go beyond basic English skills
Occupational English Test (OET), in collaboration with HEE, has launched the Living the Language: A nurse’s guide to English usage in British life and work. This new guide aims to help overseas nurses working in the UK healthcare system improve their English language skills.
The guide can be used to help overseas nurses move beyond basic English to become competent communicators at work and at home. It is packed with practical advice and focuses on the communication skills nurses need to adapt, integrate, and settle in faster.
The guide also includes practical advice and guidance on workplace and patient communication. This includes common challenges such as local accents and dialects, person-centred care, and active listening. It also includes tips on the everyday use of British English in social settings and provides help with settling into new multidisciplinary teams and professional cultures. To find out more, visit the OET Living the Language webpage.
Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme (IFPP) update
The IFPP that launched on 24 August, is progressing well and has recently received its 1000th registrant. This programme is aimed at the 2019/20 cohort of pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by COVID-19. The programme also provides a unique opportunity to accelerate pharmacists’ early years’ education and training reform and supports the delivery of the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.
The IFPP resources are also growing, and in addition to the handbooks have which to guide pharmacists and supervisors through the programme, a brand-new guide to Learning Opportunities has also been published. This guide provides provisionally registered pharmacists (and their supervisors) with links to free to access resources that are appropriate to support learning and development throughout the IFPP.
Registration for the IFPP is still open, and the IFPP programme webpage provides guidance on eligibility and how to register. The programme team also continues to send weekly updates and to subscribe to receive these, email mailto:fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating IFPP Updates in the subject header.
The deadline for applications to the Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare extended
The deadline for applications for the Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare has been extended until, Monday 12 October, at 5pm. The decision was made as the NHS will be busy during the second wave of COVID-19, and we want to give as many people as possible a chance to become a Topol Digital Fellow.
If you have a strong interest in making digital health happen, or if you have recently contributed to your organisation’s new digital services, consider applying for a Topol Digital Fellow post on the Digital Health Fellowship Programme webpage.
NHS Providers Annual Conference
HEE’s new Chief Executive, from 1 October, Navina Evans, will participate in a plenary panel session at the NHS Providers Annual Conference on 7 October, between 10:40 and 11:20.
Navina will be focusing on the role of digital in the response to COVID-19 and how Trust leaders have accelerated the digital agenda from the board room. The session is aligned to NHS Providers’ Digital Boards programme, supported, and funded by both HEE and NHSX.
How the BMJ Best Practice decision-making tool can help the changing workload of clinicians
The award-winning BMJ Best Practice clinical decision-making tool is available to all NHS healthcare staff in England for free at the point of care thanks to a national subscription funded by HEE.
In recent a BMJ Best Practice blog, Prof Sheona MacLeod, HEE Interim Medical Director, and Dr Kieran Walsh, BMJ Clinical Director, discuss the importance of making up to date evidence-based medical information available to all healthcare professionals so that they can make the most informed decisions possible for the benefit of patients.
The blog also discusses how the workload of clinical staff has changed over the years, making taking time out to study and scrutinise the latest guidance was an impossibility. New technologies, which BMJ Best Practice harnesses, now enables the obtaining of new research and information to be slotted into the workflow of the modern clinician. The blog also highlights having the most up to date information using the decision-making tool can drive up the standard of care and treatment for patients and reduce the inequalities in the standard of care across different healthcare providers.
Further BMJ practice series blogs will be released on 5 and 12 October 2020.
Accessible information resources for use by front-line staff when working with people with different needs
As we see cases of COVID-19 in the community increase, we thought it may be useful to remind you of the HEE Library and Knowledge Services website. The website host information resources which front-line staff can use to help them communicate effectively with patients, clients, and their families around Coronavirus.
The website resources all meet the accessible information standard and include easy read, sign language, and Makaton formats as well as other communication guidance. To access these resources, visit the HEE Library and Knowledge Services website.
New Fellowship launched by the National School of Healthcare Science (NHSC)
In collaboration with the NHSC, Office of the Chief Scientific Officer for NHS England and Improvement, the National Institute for Health Research, and the Devices for Dignity MedTech Co-operative are launching the Healthcare Science Innovation Fellowship scheme.
The Fellowship scheme will build system capacity to increase medical device regulatory and standards expertise and innovation capabilities for the introduction of appropriate technologies to benefit cancer patients in primary or secondary care settings. With the prevalence of cancer forecast to increase, the Cancer Workforce Plan has recognised the potential for scientific and technological innovations to transform care.
To find out more about the Fellowship, visit the Healthcare Science Innovation Fellowship scheme webpage.
Dive deep into our Allied Health Professions (AHP)
Over September, we held a series of AHP webinars, each focusing on three AHPs. We looked at the current national challenges for each profession, along with the perspective of the professional bodies, and looked at profession-specific workforce data. This was a unique opportunity for a 360 look at each profession, that:
The webinars delivered were:
To watch the webinar recordings and access the slides, visit the AHP Faculty webpage, and scroll to the bottom of the webpage, and then click the + sign under AHP Workforce Webinars.
Nursing in Social Care
We are delighted and excited to release our new Nursing is Social Care video. The seven-minute video was filmed at Wren Hall and Landermeads nursing homes in Nottingham.
The film showcases the role of nursing in social care and we hope it will attract nurses and nursing associates who want to work in this rewarding sector. It also conveys the passion for what we do, the varied nature of the career, and how social care nursing is about supporting people in the long term, building relationships that are not always possible in the acute sector.
Participate in user research – HEE National Website Platform
HEE is developing a new National Website Platform digital service that aims to replace the multiple website management systems across HEE with a single platform for all HEE websites, including national, regional, local, and programme – similar to gov.uk. When the service becomes available, it will offer a better user experience and improved accessibility.
HEE is keen to provide a digital service that is fit for purpose and meets user and stakeholder needs. If you are a user of any HEE website, please get involved in user research and testing activities and subscribe to the National Website Platform Stakeholder Involvement Databank.
For further information and queries, email parah.orakpo@hee.nhs.uk.
HEE elearning for healthcare (elfh) updates
The elfh team, alongside key partners, have recently added and updated the following elearning programmes:
The Learning Hub – what do resources look like on the platform?
The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of resources that are pertinent to education and training in health and care. Various resource types can be contributed to the Learning Hub, but what do they look like when viewed by a user on the platform?
Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access. Users are also able to rate the resources they view which helps other users to see, at a glance, how a resource has been rated by others and can inform whether they choose to access it.
Almost 650 resources have already been contributed to the Learning Hub including, elearning, video, audio, images, weblinks, documents, and articles on a range of subjects. But when you contribute a resource, how does it appear to other users? Recently contributed content includes a series of tracheostomy videos to support health and care professionals treating COVID-19 positive patients, to see how these resources appear, visit the Learning Hub contribution resource webpage.
Contribute to the Learning Hub
If you or your organisation have resources to share and contribute to the Learning Hub, sign into the Learning Hub, and select the Contribute a resource webpage.
Please note, you can sign into the Learning Hub using your elfh Hub, NHS OpenAthens username and password, or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.
If you have any questions or want to find out more about contributing resources to the Learning Hub, email enquiries@learninghub.nhs.uk. For more information about the Learning Hub, follow @HEE_TEL on Twitter, and visit the Learning Hub blog.
HSJ win for ESCAPE-pain
Earlier this year HEE elfh worked with the Health Innovation Network and Academic Health Science Network to develop an ESCAPE-pain elearning resource to support the ESCAPE-pain initiative. We are delighted to share the news that the ESCAPE-pain initiative won the MSK initiative of the year in the HSJ Value Awards.
ESCAPE-pain is an evidence-based and cost-effective group rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain. The elearning resources are aimed at helping interested providers determine how ESCAPE-pain may fit within their organisation and to begin the process towards implementation and professionals who plan to deliver the programme and become ESCAPE-pain facilitators.
To find out more, visit the elfh ESCAPE-pain webpage.
The return of face-to-face simulation training
HEE’s Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team recently announced the release of the COVID-19 toolkit for safe simulation in health and care. The second part of this guidance, National guidance for safe delivery of Simulation-Based Education, has now been published. This new document develops some of the ideas introduced in the toolkit.
The next phase of the return of face to face simulation work, #SimRestart, is now underway. The joint venture, between HEE’s TEL team and the Association of Simulated Practice in Healthcare, aims to create an open library of resources to help local education providers offer safe and effective face-to-face or remote access simulation-based learning.
We would like to hear from anyone who is building experience and expertise by using techniques, such as remote access live observation and feedback, video-assisted simulation activities, or other forms of immersive technology to enhance simulation-based learning. To get in touch, email tel@hee.nhs.uk using #SimRestart in the subject line.
By following @NHSHealthEdEng on Twitter you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly, there are notifications of HEE webinars being broadcast during the week.
Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is incredibly important. If there is any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.
This month’s edition includes an update on contributions to the Learning Hub plus details of a new COVID-19 rehabilitation and recovery resource now available. There is also details of a new MindEd elearning resource available to boost pupil and teacher wellbeing and news of recent updates to the Statutory and Mandatory Training programme.
Select the following link to access our full publication of TEL News.
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 Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) course is aimed at endosonographers undertaking or planning to undertake endoscopic ultrasound-guided tissue sampling by fine-needle aspiration (FNA) or fine-needle biopsy (FNB).
The Endoscopic Non-Technical Skills (ENTS) course provides a comprehensive overview of the communication, teamwork, leadership, situational awareness, judgement, and decision-making skills necessary to undertake endoscopy effectively. It is recommended by the Joint Advisory Group on Gastrointestinal Endoscopy that all clinicians working in endoscopy complete these modules. The course includes the following sessions:
For more information about the Endoscopy programme, including details of how to access the elearning content, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/endoscopy/.