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End-of-Life Care For All now available for everyone

Posted on: October 4th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

The End-of-Life Care For All (e-ELCA) elearning programme is now available for everyone to access.

Developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) in partnership with the Association for Palliative Medicine, the programme features over 170 resources and 30 learning paths for doctors, nursing staff, medical students, healthcare assistants, admin staff, and volunteers, supporting individuals who are approaching the end of life and their families.

Previously this programme was only accessible on the elfh hub for individuals with an NHS email address, but wider access means everyone, regardless of their employment status, can access this vital information and advice on how best to offer end-of-life care.

To date, there are more than 73,000 active users of the programme and since it launched in 2009, there has been more than 1.2 million sessions launched. Usage on the programme has trebled since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please note, the programme covers sensitive topics including death, dying, the different stages of end-of-life and bereavement which may be distressing to some learners.

For more information and to access the programme, please visit the End-of-Life Care For All programme page.

New induction programme for international medical graduates now available

Posted on: September 27th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

The NHS Induction Programme for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) provides guidance for Trusts on how to welcome IMGs to the UK. The overarching aim is to ensure a standardised supportive induction for doctors who are new to UK practice.

The elearning session, developed in partnership with NHS England and Improvement, is aimed at IMGs and outlines expectations regarding their induction into the NHS.

By completing the session, learners will:

  • recognise how a comprehensive induction for IMGs is essential for wellbeing, sense of inclusion and career progression
  • discover the information, resources and support IMGs can expect their employing Trust to offer them and their families before and after they arrive in the UK
  • consider some potential challenges for a doctor moving into a new linguistic, cultural and professional environment
  • reflect on personal and professional learning needs and identify ways to meet these
  • locate additional learning resources

This programme will be accompanied by a guidance document aimed at Trusts including HR directors and medical directors and coves the contents of the indicative programme including:

  • Introduction
  • Welcome and pastoral induction
  • Professional practice induction
  • Language and communication
  • IT systems induction

For more information and to access the programme, please visit the NHS Induction Programme for International Medical Graduates webpage.

 

New resource supports community pharmacy to help identify possible cancer symptoms

Posted on: September 23rd, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

A new elearning programme to help community pharmacists identify and respond to patients’ possible cancer symptoms is now available on Health Education England elearning for healthcare’s (HEE elfh) Hub.

The NHS Long-Term Plan sets out a new ambition that, by 2028, the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 will rise from around half now to 3 quarters of cancer patients. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least 5 years after diagnosis.

Let’s Communicate Cancer focuses on the contribution of community pharmacy to the early diagnosis of cancer, where patients come to the pharmacy for help in managing symptoms that they do not realise may be cancer, such as diarrhoea or a long-standing cough. Pharmacies can advise when it might be something more serious and where it is best to get them checked out.

The programme, developed by the British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA), features 4 modules which cover the following topics:

  • early diagnosis and prevention
  • what is cancer?
  • treatment for cancer
  • supporting your patients with cancer

There is also a resource bank within the programme which features links to some lead cancer organisations such as British Oncology Pharmacy Association, Cancer Research UK and Macmillan, published articles and posters, and cancer campaign materials and several quizzes to test learners’ knowledge.

On completion of the programme, learners will be more familiar and aware of symptoms that may be suggestive of cancer and understand how lifestyle factors contribute to cancer. The programme also provides useful hints and tips to support conversations with patients, encouraging referral to the GP where appropriate.

For more information and to access the resource, please visit the Let’s Communicate Cancer programme page.

New sessions added to Population Health Management elearning programme

Posted on: August 16th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with NHS England and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) to add 3 new sessions to the Population Health Management elearning programme.

The new sessions complement 5 existing modules in the programme, which is designed to support analysts and other health and care professionals working in population health to build their knowledge and skills within the area of population health management (PHM).

The 3 elearning sessions that have recently been developed are:

  • Data visualisation – users will understand the principles of good data visualisation for charts and maps
  • Knowledge to action – supporting users to understand how to get data and evidence into the hands of decision makers through the K2A essentials toolkit
  • Health episode statistics – new users of the hospital episode statistics data set will be introduced to the functions and ways to interrogate the system within this module

The COVID-19 response to date has highlighted the pivotal role of PHM, with primary and secondary care providers needing to risk stratify and proactively support key population groups with personalised care models. PHM will become increasingly important as systems move to the reset phase where they will need the appropriate insights to make judgments about restarting non-urgent elective care.

The PHM elearning modules introduce the PHM approach as well as the role of needs assessment and segmentation, providing a useful grounding to support colleagues in their endeavour to support population health during COVID-19 and thereafter.

For more information and to access the new sessions, please select the Population Health Management programme page.

Top tips on feeding and eating disorders in children and young people now available

Posted on: August 9th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

A collection of 5 helpful tips sheets for professionals to support their learning on feeding problems or eating disorders in infants and children and young people (CYP) has been added to Health Education England elearning for Healthcare (HEE elfh)’s MindEd programme.

The tips, which are aimed at professionals working in primary and universal care, hospital general paediatric services and specialist child and young people mental health services (CYPMHS), cover the following topics:

  • Tips for CYP feeding or eating disorders I: What to be aware of
  • CYP Feeding or Eating Disorders Tips II: What to Look out for
  • Tips for CYP Feeding or Eating Disorders III: What To Ask and Investigate
  • Tips for CYP Feeding or Eating Disorders IV: What to do
  • Tips for feeding or eating disorders V: Feeding development and problems in infants 0-2 years

Eating Disorders for Adults and Older People

MindEd has also created an Adult Eating Disorder Hub – a collection of existing evidence-based, trusted learning resources, for example, elearning, evidence-based guidelines, legislation, key-seminal texts and resources developed by the NHS, Royal Colleges, Mainstream professional bodies and charities. The Learning Resources Hub applies to a broad range of colleagues in the health and care services.

To access the top tips please visit the MindEd Hub.

MindEd is a free educational resource for mental health support. The variety of free resources aims to provide adults – across professions and organisations and including parents and carers – with the knowledge to support wellbeing, the understanding to identify young and older people at risk of a mental health condition and the confidence to act on their concern and, if needed, signpost to services that can help.

For more information and to access the programme’s resources, please visit the MindEd programme page.

Updates to End of Life Care for All (e-ELCA) elearning

Posted on: August 9th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with the Association for Palliative Medicine to update 5 existing sessions within the End-of-Life Care for All (e-ELCA) elearning programme.

These sessions are:

Introduction to e-learning for end-of-life care – this session introduces learners to the End-of-life Care for All elearning programme (e-ELCA) with a message from the programme’s new clinical lead, Dr Sarah Hanrott. https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/718744

Registered nurse verification of expected adult death – this session has been updated with the latest guidance document for registered nurses who wish to extend their role to include verifying an expected adult death. https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/720244

Recognising and managing malignant spinal cord compression – this session now features guidance on adopting a spinal bowel regime for management of malignant spinal cord compression. https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/719030

Symptom management in people with learning difficulties – this session has now removed information specific to mental health patients as this topic will now be covered in a separate elearning session, available later this year.

Talking about death and dying – this session explores the cultural issues surrounding death and dying in the UK and offers guidance on how to talk about this often-difficult subject. https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/719363

More information is available on the End-of-Life Care for All (e-ELCA) programme page.

New session for postgraduate doctors in training returning to work now available

Posted on: August 5th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with Health Education England’s Supported Return to Training (SuppoRTT) team to develop a new elearning resource on positive culture within the workplace.

Building a More SuppoRTTive Culture explores the significance of organisational culture in shaping the experience of postgraduate doctors in training returning to work after a break and offers guidance on the measures that individuals can take to bring about positive cultural change, creating an NHS in which its staff can thrive and that is safe for the patients it serves.

Developed with contributions from experts in the field, such as Professor Michael West CBE (Senior Fellow at The Kings Fund) and Professor Jim Barrie (Senior Lecturer in Medical Education at Edge Hill University), the 40-minute session highlights the fundamental role of every single person within the healthcare system, clinical and non-clinical, in building a positive, supportive culture.

Although the resource aims to help create a positive culture for returning postgraduate doctors in training (with all the benefits this brings) it has wider implications for, and parallels with, how we build a more supportive culture more generally within the NHS.

For more information and to access the resource, please visit the Building a More SuppoRTTive Culture programme page.

Elearning to support administrative triage now available

Posted on: August 3rd, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

Developed to support GP administrative staff in sorting, signposting and delivering administrative triage, 5 new elearning sessions aim to guide those administering a triage process in general practice through signposting to existing resources, questions and mini quizzes which are designed to record how confident learners feel in each topic area at the start and end of the elearning sessions.

In these sessions, produced in partnership with NHS England, the Practice Managers Association and Health Education England, learners will be introduced to:
introducing administrative triage and understanding the evidence behind using an online consultation system to support patient requests
designing a practice workflow and setting up a triage list
promoting the service to patients and understanding some of the considerations for the practice team when working remotely
confidently taking patients, or their nominated carer, through an online consultation request over the telephone or in person
sorting patient requests and signposting to the right place, service or clinician for clinical triage

The new elearning sessions take approximately 10 to 15 minutes to complete.

How to access the elearning
You can learn more about the Administrative Triage Using Digital Tools in General Practice resources on the programme page.

TEL News July 2022

Posted on: July 28th, 2022 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

This month’s edition includes details of a new roadmap for the Learning Hub, XR roadshows plus new Fit Note elearning.

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