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New Genomics in the NHS programme

Posted on: December 10th, 2020 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) in partnership with the HEE Genomics Education Programme (GEP) are delighted to launch their new Genomics in the NHS programme; a collection of elearning sessions designed for all healthcare professionals looking to learn more about genomics.

With the launch of the NHS Genomics Medicine Service in England, more healthcare professionals than ever before are likely to encounter genomics in their daily role. As it increasingly becomes part of routine care, all healthcare professionals, not just those within specialist departments, will need some level of understanding of the impact genomics will have on the diagnosis, treatment and management of a wide variety of conditions.

This new programme seeks to meet this educational need in an open, collaborative way, by inviting genomics educators from across the NHS to contribute their educational resources and courses.

About the Genomics in the NHS programme

The Genomics in the NHS programme is a collection of new and refreshed elearning sessions developed by NHS educational teams to support and educate all healthcare professionals about genomic medicine and the benefits it is bringing to patient care.

The programme was developed to incorporate elearning resources from Health Education England’s Genomics Education Programme (GEP) along with other contributors. The programme launches with elearning from the GEP and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust.

New and refreshed elearning sessions

The GEP’s content features a range of foundation and specialist courses on a wide range of topics related to genomics. Learners with no or limited exposure to genomics can build up their knowledge with the Genomics 101 collection, comprising nine short introductory courses covering the basic of DNA, genetic inheritance, genetic testing and communicating with patients about genomics.

Meanwhile, healthcare professionals who are already familiar with genomics can access more tailored sessions, designed for those who support patients through genomic testing, including whole genome sequencing.

The Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust has contributed its first elearning resources to the Genomics in the NHS programme. The sessions have been designed to assist healthcare professionals working with patients with rare diseases, looking to understand and integrate genomics into their clinical practice.

Learners will be provided with an overview of basic, general genomics knowledge, which will then be assessed. They will examine genomic knowledge specific to their area of practice, by identifying common genetic conditions. They will also examine local pathways and support systems for the patients and are encouraged to support their learning and case-based discussions with the help of a local facilitator.

Further information and guidance

To find out more about the work of the GEP and its courses, resources and tools available for the NHS workforce, visit the GEP website at www.genomicseducation.hee.nhs.uk

Learners completing the modules by Liverpool Women’s Trust may be interested in further guidance and reading, which is linked to module and written for patients. You can access the guidance by selecting: https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/our-services/liverpool-centre-for-genomic-medicine-lcgm/

Accessing the elearning

For more information and to access the sessions, please visit the Genomics in the NHS programme page.

You can work through the elearning programme at your own pace and revisit content at any time.

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme updated

Posted on: December 9th, 2020 by Hannah Denness No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with Public Health England to update the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP).

The newborn hearing screening test helps to identify babies who have permanent hearing loss as early as possible. This means that parents can get the advice and support they need as soon as possible after birth.

The new screening sessions within the elearning are:

Unit 1 – Introduction to the NHSP and informed choice
Unit 2 – The ear and hearing
Unit 3 – The NHSP care pathway and quality assurance
Unit 4 – The screening tests
Unit 5 – Screening outcomes
Unit 6 – The NHSP national IT system (S4H) and screening equipment
Unit 7 – NHSP knowledge update

For more information about the elearning programme and to access the sessions, please visit the NHS screening programme page.

New Delivering sensory health services e-learning

Posted on: December 7th, 2020 by Hannah Denness No Comments

Delivering sensory health services elearning programme now live

Health Education England has worked in partnership with NHS England and Improvement (NHSE/I) to create an interactive elearning resource to help healthcare professionals deliver sensory health checks to children and young people with learning disabilities and autism.

The Delivering sensory health services elearning programme is designed to support dentists and their teams, eye care specialists (including opticians and optometrists, and supporting staff) and audiologists who carry out these sensory health checks.

Some children and young people with learning disabilities and autism can have difficulties understanding, receiving, and responding to information and may experience sensory processing difficulties. People with these issues may have an adverse reaction to anything that under or overstimulates their senses, such as light, sound, touch, taste, or smell. This can affect their behaviour and ability to interact with other people making it more difficult for them to access health checks.

The programme outlines:

What to consider when communicating with children and young people and their families in these schools or colleges
How to work with other professionals to help support whilst in situ and provide this support
To help prepare beforehand in order to understand how a particular school or college works.
Specific topics on autism and behaviours that can be a challenge and what sensory impairment means to the patient.
How to reduce/avoid this sensory overload whilst caring for the individual.

The resource may also be useful for other health and care professionals working in these settings for the first time.

Other organisations who supported the development of the resource include: The National Association of Special Schools, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Seeability, University College London and University College Hospital.

Access the Delivering sensory health services programme.

e-Learning sessions support paramedics caring for mother and baby

Posted on: December 7th, 2020 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) worked with the College of Paramedics to develop ten bite-sized sessions to develop paramedics’ knowledge of childbirth, maternal emergencies and care of newborn babies.

Written and edited by paramedic-midwife, Aimee Yarrington, each session in the maternity and newborn care for paramedics’ module was designed to build confidence and competence in experienced paramedics, students and assistant practitioners when caring for mother and baby in a wide range of scenarios such as normal birth, breech birth, peripartum haemorrhage and newborn life support.

The module covers the following topics:

Ante-partum haemorrhage
Birth
Breech birth
Care of the newborn
Cord prolapse
Maternal resuscitation
Newborn life support
Post-partum haemorrhage
Pregnancy induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia
Shoulder dystocia

Each interactive session can be accessed on a variety of mobile devices and lasts approximately 20 minutes.

To register for this elearning module or for more information, please visit the elfh website.

New Recognising and Managing Deterioration e-learning programme launched

Posted on: December 4th, 2020 by Leanne Hargreaves No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked in partnership with London South Bank University and Bournemouth University, to develop a new, free elearning programme to support health and social care professionals working in clinical environments where patients could physically deteriorate.

The Recognising and Managing Deterioration programme is an elearning resource offered at two levels, universal and advanced, to reflect the participant’s experience and clinical setting. This resource is structured around the ABCDE assessment tool and allows participants to revise their anatomy and physiology, develop their skills and knowledge in the assessment process to recognise deterioration and manage the findings within the scope of their clinical role.

Changes to vital signs, behaviour and mental state often occur before a serious event, such as cardiac arrest. Being able to recognise and act on these changes are essential skills to improving patient safety and outcomes. A range of resources are available in this elearning programme to support the workforce and organisations in ensuring staff have the necessary knowledge and skills to recognise and manage deterioration in adult patients.

How to access the elearning
The Recognising and Managing Deterioration elearning programme is available to the health and care workforce via the elearning for healthcare Hub.

You can learn more about the elearning resources on the Recognising and Managing Deterioration programme page.

New e-learning programme supports trainees’ return to training

Posted on: December 3rd, 2020 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

A new programme designed to support medical and dental trainees returning to training after prolonged absence is now available on Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare Hub.

Supported Return to Training for Trainees has been developed to improve the return to training experience for all medical and dental trainees who have been out of training for 3 months or more.
This elearning programme aims to:

help trainees understand the supported return to training process
recognise and discuss common concerns for returning trainees
hear the positive experiences of other trainees’ return to training.

The programme is aimed at trainees planning an absence from training, and those planning their return to training.
The course, which is formative and not assessed, takes approximately 30 to 60 minutes to complete and comprises the following topics:

Introduction
Your (trainee) concerns
The SuppoRTT process
Keep in touch/shared parental leave in touch/return to training days
People who can support you
Your wellbeing
Summary
Links to HEE SuppoRTT teams’ webpages.

It was developed by Health Education England North West (HEE NW), in conjunction with the blended learning team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

For more information and to access the course, please visit the Supported Return to Training for Trainees programme page.

e-Learning resource to teach children how to swallow pills

Posted on: December 3rd, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

New elearning resource to teach children how to swallow pills

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked in partnership with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Great North Children’s Hospital to develop “Kidzmed” – an elearning programme developed for members of the multidisciplinary team to teach children and young people how to swallow pills.

It is believed that pills have numerous advantages over suspensions for children and young people, carers, prescribers and pharmacists:

For children and young people: pills are less sickly, contain less sugar and children who swallow pills tend to have better adherence to their medication regimens
For carers: pills have a longer shelf-life, do not require a fridge for storage, are easier to transport and more readily available in local pharmacies
For prescribers: less prone to errors when writing prescriptions and can prescribe larger quantities
For pharmacists: pills are more commonly stocked in local pharmacies compared to suspensions.

Due to the above benefits swallowing pills is considered an important life skill for children to learn and the elearning session has been developed to help healthcare professionals and carers teach children and young people how to swallow pills.

The Kidzmed initiative was set up at the Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle, and has won the NHS Sustainability Award, the HSJ Value Award for Pharmacy and Optimisation and the Bright Ideas in Health Award for Demonstrating an Impact upon Quality Improvement. The 15-minute elearning session is for all health and care professionals who want to teach children and young people how to swallow pills using an evidence-based, six-step technique.

For more information about the elearning resource, including details on how to access, visit the elfh website.

ESCAPE-pain - supporting people with chronic joint pain

Posted on: November 30th, 2020 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) with ESCAPE-pain and the Health Innovation Network developed two elearning resources, aimed at helping healthcare professionals and exercise instructors understand the principles behind the ESCAPE-pain programme – facilitating group education and exercise sessions for people living with chronic joint pain and learning how the programme may be implemented in their organisation.

What is the ESCAPE-pain programme?

Designed to increase physical function and improve quality of life, ESCAPE-pain is an evidence-based and cost-effective group rehabilitation programme for people with chronic joint pain.

The ESCAPE-pain programme can be delivered in a variety of locations including outpatient physiotherapy departments, leisure centres and local community settings by healthcare professionals and exercise instructors.

There are two ESCAPE-pain programmes designed to support people living with chronic knee and hip pain, and people living with chronic back pain.

To deliver either of the ESCAPE-pain programmes, professionals are required to attend facilitator training. The training is open to healthcare professionals and exercise instructors who meet the pre-qualification criteria.

The research, evidence and endorsements for each programme can be found on the ESCAPE-pain website.

elearning resources

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.
professionals who plan to deliver the programme and become ESCAPE-pain facilitators.

Each elearning session takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete, with the aim of improving providers’ understanding of what the programme involves and to prepare for the facilitator training.

More about ESCAPE-pain

The ESCAPE-pain programme was recently awarded the MSK Care Initiative of the Year at the HSJ Value Awards 2020.

“The judges felt this was an excellent initiative which enables self-management for people with hip and knee pain. Clear rationale was given for the initiative with supporting evidence and references, which has led to improvement in patient care. The team demonstrated great overall cost saving benefits to the system in terms of total and social health, and the overall ambition to improve general health, fitness and wellbeing was commendable.”

The elearning was commissioned by the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) and developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare, in collaboration with ESCAPE-pain and the Health Innovation Network.

Please see our website for more information about the ESCAPE-pain programme and recommended reading.

Accessing the elearning

If you would like to know more about the programme, including access details to the elearning sessions, the ESCAPE-pain team is waiting to support you.

Please email the team at: hello@escape-pain.org for more information.

Foundation programme – November 2020 update

Posted on: November 24th, 2020 by Hannah Denness No Comments

Welcome to your November 2020 update about the Foundation elearning programme.

The Foundation elearning programme 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 elfh Foundation elearning programme:

Professional Capability: 3
Behaves in accordance with ethical and legal requirements

Sessions:

How to avoid the GMC Disciplinary Committee
GMC Registration and Post Graduate Observation

Professional Capability: 19
Makes patient safety a priority in clinical practice

Sessions:

Human factors and analysis of adverse events
Medical Error: When Things Go Wrong
Hospital Acquired Fever: What to do if MRSA Positive
Hospital Acquired Fever: What to do Next
Infection Control: Diarrhoea in an Inpatient
Infection Control: Air and Blood Borne Pathogens
Infection Control: Modes of Transmission

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

HORUS and TURAS link to elfh elearning sessions from the FP Curriculum and are therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.

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