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Evaluation of online resources to support quality care in dementia

Posted on: October 11th, 2021 by Hannah Denness No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has partnered with the University of Bradford (UoB) to evaluate the effectiveness of two elfh elearning programmes in preparing the dementia workforce for quality care.

In the proposed implementation of the Dementia Challenge 2025, workforce is critical and HEE is playing a key role in increasing the capability and skills of the workforce.

Learners are invited to evaluate the Dementia programme, which was developed with UoB, and the Lived Experience of Dementia programme, which was developed with Bournemouth University and Alzheimer’s Research UK. There are 2 brief surveys to complete; one before completing the session and one after completion.

All roles across the dementia workforce are encouraged to take part. To find out more about the evaluation, please visit the Dementia or Lived Experience of Dementia programme pages.

New programme about pelvic floor health now available

Posted on: October 7th, 2021 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

A new pelvic health elearning module has been developed by Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh), in partnership with Health Education England’s Maternity Team.

Introduction to the Pelvic Floor During Pregnancy provides midwives, health visitors and all other colleagues who work closely with new and expectant mothers, with a basic understanding of the pelvic floor, its function and how pregnancy affects it.

The module takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and covers the following topics:

  • the structure and anatomy of the pelvic floor
  • the mechanism and function of the pelvic floor, with reference to the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period
  • the effects of pregnancy and childbirth on the pelvic floor mechanism during the antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal period
  • the principles of teaching pelvic floor exercises
  • the importance of maintaining maternal levels of general fitness
  • when to seek help

On completion of the module, learners should feel comfortable to initiate conversations with mothers about the importance of looking after their pelvic floor throughout the pre and postnatal period, the exercises they can do, what to expect in the weeks after birth and when and whom to ask for help if problems persist.

For more information and to access the module, please visit the Introduction to the Pelvic Floor During Pregnancy programme page.

New sessions added to the e-ELCA public access programme

Posted on: October 7th, 2021 by Hannah Denness No Comments

New sessions have been added to the end-of-life care for all (e-ELCA) public access elearning programme.

The programme, developed in partnership with the Association for Palliative Medicine, is designed to enhance the training and education of all those involved in delivering end-of-life care.

The resources available are suitable for social care workers, support workers, administrative and clerical staff, and volunteers.

The e-ELCA public access programme now includes the following courses:

For details on how to access the full e-ELCA learning programme please visit the end-of-life-care (e-ELCA) programme page.

 

SCRIPT – supporting safer prescribing practices in paediatrics

Posted on: October 6th, 2021 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

The SCRIPT elearning programme for paediatric prescribers including specialist trainee doctors comprises 23 modules in 5 categories, covering a range of topics relating to prescribing and medicines safety in the secondary care setting.

Paediatric SCRIPT module categories include:

  • Principles of Prescribing in Paediatrics
  • Surgical Specialities
  • General Paediatrics
  • General Therapeutics
  • Advanced Therapeutics

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 programme?

  • Safer prescribing
    Paediatric SCRIPT ensures that prescribers working, training and specialising in paediatrics are better prepared for prescribing, therefore improving patient safety.
  • Professional development
    Certificates are made available on completion of a module, which can be used for online learning portfolios as evidence of continuing professional development.
  • Flexible learning
    SCRIPT is easily accessible and intuitive to use, allowing users to complete modules at their convenience and refer back to modules at any time.
  • SCRIPT elearning is free to those with a NHS.uk or NHS.net address.

How do I access the elearning?

You can learn more about the SCRIPT elearning programmes by visiting the SCRIPT website.

The Changing Story of Cancer elearning programme is available

Posted on: October 6th, 2021 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) worked in partnership with NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care System (ICS), Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK to develop a new elearning programme.

Developed for the entire health and care workforce, this elearning programme aims to support health and care professionals in understanding that the outcomes for people living with, and beyond cancer, have changed and the relevance of this to their roles.

Topics covered in the elearning programme include:

  • high-level facts and figures about cancer
  • how outcomes for people diagnosed with cancer have improved
  • why cancer can be considered a long-term condition
  • where to access further training, if required

The elearning module takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and forms part of the continuing professional (CPD) for the NHS workforce.

Accessing the elearning

To read more about the background to this elearning programme, please visit the programme page.

This programme will also be available via ESR (Electronic Staff Record) for the NHS health and care workforce.

Your feedback

Your comments are valuable to us, please complete the evaluation survey to let us know what you think about the elearning programme.

Free Paramedics elearning available to all students, newly qualified and registered paramedics

Posted on: October 5th, 2021 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Health Education England and the College of Paramedics have worked in partnership to develop a dedicated elearning programme for Paramedics. Whether starting or returning to university studying Paramedic Science, starting work as a paramedic for the first time, or an experienced paramedic looking to refresh and update their knowledge, these sessions aim to support individuals applying theory into practice.

Gary Strong, National CPD Lead, College of Paramedics commented, ‘Quick and easy to access and produced by paramedics for paramedics, these sessions are invaluable for refreshing knowledge and applying learning in practice. They can be used by students to support their studies, newly qualified paramedics to reinforce their learning, or experienced paramedics for revision, and all who work alongside paramedics to develop applied clinical knowledge’.

What’s included in the elearning programme?

The programme now includes 13 modules, with sessions written by paramedics and subject matter experts on a wide range of topics.

  • Clinical Decision Making for Paramedics
  • End of Life and Palliative Care as Associated with Paramedic Practice
  • Law and Ethics for Paramedics
  • Long Term Conditions for Paramedics
  • Mental Health for Paramedics
  • Paediatrics for Paramedics
  • Pain Management for Paramedics
  • Public Health for Paramedics
  • Management of Burns for Paramedics
  • Maternity Care for Paramedics
  • Supporting Paramedic Practice During COVID-19
  • Urgent Care for Paramedics – Illness
  • Urgent Care for Paramedics – Injuries

The modules in this programme include interactive, CPD (Continuing Professional Development), 20 minute elearning sessions, designed to be accessed on a variety of mobile devices, including iPads and mobile phones.

How can I access the Paramedics elearning programme?

For more information and to register for the elearning  programme, please visit the Paramedics programme page.

Other elearning programmes of interest

Paramedics may also be interested in the Essentials of Wound Care Education for the Health and Care Workforce. This elearning programme aims to develop the knowledge and skills required to enable appropriate wound care to people in any setting. For more details, visit the elearning.

Updates to trainer resources within the London Transformation and Learning Collaborative Critical Care elearning programme

Posted on: October 5th, 2021 by Hannah Denness No Comments

The London Transformation and Learning Collaborative (LTLC) has worked with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) to update the range of trainer resources within its Critical Care elearning programme.

These resources and train-the-trainer materials have been mapped to the programme’s interprofessional skills matrix by professional grouping. They include:

  • Complete courses including simulation scenarios
  • Simulation and Human Factors guides
  • Digital and Remote teaching skills
  • Lesson Plans
  • Instructional Videos
  • Slide decks

The LTLC Adult Critical Care programme was developed to help individuals, educators and systems prepare and to support NHS staff being deployed as part of the Coronavirus response. The programme includes rapid access resources such as a Critical Care Equipment Guide and a 360 ICU Orientation as well as Staff Recovery Resources to support healthcare staff recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team are inviting feedback on these resources, to contact the team, email ltlc@hee.nhs.uk.

Stakeholder Briefing – Issue 44

Posted on: October 5th, 2021 by Rachel Gowland No Comments

Key Messages and links to 01 October 2021

Welcome to Health Education England’s regular stakeholder bulletin. In this bulletin we will provide:

  • Latest messages from our Chief Executive
  • COVID-19 latest updates
  • Overview of HEE education and training news

Weekly messages from HEE

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE:

I am incredibly proud of my colleagues in HEE for their work during a uniquely difficult year

As Navina approaches her first anniversary as Chief Executive at Health Education England (HEE), she reflects on what we and the wider NHS have faced due to the impact of COVID-19 on services, our people, and of course patients. HEE’s people played their role by helping over 40,000 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, with over 4.5million session launches across the world. Read Navina’s blog in full here.

Re-appointment for HEE Chair and board members

Sir David Behan, chair of HEE and his non-executive colleagues on the board, Dr Liz Mear and Professor Andrew George, have been appointed for another term by the Department of Health and Social Care. They will continue in their roles until 2024. To read the full announcement visit Gov.uk

HEE COVID-19 latest updates

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage that provides guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees. This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 surge guidance.

To keep up to date with plans for medical training recovery, visit HEE COVID-19 webpages.

If we want doctors tomorrow, we must continue to train and support them today

In Prof Sheona MacLeod’s latest training recovery update, she recognises the impact the waves of the pandemic have had on the education and  training of healthcare learners including postgraduate doctors in training – and why HEE has  refreshed the guidance on managing the training workforce. This reaffirms the need to retain learners on programmes and maintain training wherever possible and it has updated processes for decisions about deployment into service. Read Sheona’s full update here.

New Respiratory Surge in Children programme now available

Health Education England, supported by NHS England and NHS Improvement Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Networks and the Paediatric Critical Care Society, has launched a new programme for all NHS healthcare staff who care for unwell children in preparation for the anticipated surge in respiratory infections in 2021-22.

The Respiratory Surge in Children programme is a digital repository of training resources for self-directed learning, as well as for trainers and educators, to support the cross-skilling of the workforce to increase capacity and enhance capability in response to the expected and experienced increase in prevalence of respiratory illnesses in children.

The programme presents e-learning as a mix of short videos, narrated presentations, PDFs and links to blogs and webinars – all designed to let the leaner access the content they need, in an educational form that suits them. The team continues to seek additional content, and feedback, on the work so far to co-create a programme that meets the needs of the workforce. You can get in touch to discuss specific needs, provide feedback, or share resources by emailing LTLC@hee.nhs.uk.

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients:

Nursing

HEE welcomes NMC recommendations for education reform

HEE has welcomed the news from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) that it is making recommendations to modernise pre-registration education programme standards which will be discussed at the next board meeting on 29 September. Read the full statement from HEE’s Chief Nurse, Mark Radford.

Midwifery

Explore genomics in midwifery

Genomics is fundamental to midwifery practice. It allows midwives to predict and prepare for situations in pregnancy to better protect and care for the parent and child. To help midwives recognise the significance of genomics in their practice, the Genomics Education Programme (GEP) has created a new resource in the Genomics in Healthcare series: Genomics in Midwifery. The webpage brings together tips and tools to support midwives at any point of their career and at any stage of their genomics learning journey.

The resource brings together a variety of learning opportunities, including an introductory animation highlighting the importance of genomics in midwifery practice, a pregnancy touchpoint walkthrough with good practice tips and a case study that explores why early information about family history can have such a big impact on care. View the resource on our website.

Dental

New plans for dental training reform in England to tackle inequalities in patient oral health

HEE has published an ambitious four-year plan to develop a workforce more able to address oral health inequalities across the population by reforming dental education and training. The Advancing Dental Care (ADC) Review report concludes a three-year review to identify and develop a future dental education and training infrastructure that produces a skilled multi-professional oral health workforce, which can support patient and population needs within the NHS. Read the full story here.

Mental health

Mental health crisis learning guides

Crisis Tools is relevant to anyone who may find themselves supporting a young person in crisis including parents, carers and professionals. Access the unique, co-produced learning guides to increase knowledge and confidence for anyone supporting young people in a mental health crisis at crisistools.org.uk.

The Crisis Tools website features a resource-sharing hub and bite-sized learning guides aimed at improving your knowledge and understanding of young people’s experiences when getting help in a crisis. Co-designed and delivered by young people with lived experience, these unique learning guides will cover key themes including attitudes, communication, practical strategies and complexities when delivering care remotely.

Healthy Teen Minds young advisor Jo, has shared how to have compassionate and supportive mental health crisis conversations with them.

Workforce and education initiatives

Independent evaluation of the Global Digital Exemplar programme

An independent evaluation of the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme has been published by Edinburgh University.

The evaluation report indicates that the GDE programme achieved what it set out to do, namely stimulating digitally enabled transformation and the sharing of knowledge between participating provider organisations and programme managers. These were the twin goals of the programme.

An executive summary of the report is available on the NHSX website. You can also read a blog post by NHSX Director of Frontline Digitisation Dermot Ryan on how the findings of the report align with ongoing support for frontline digitisation.

Virtual and Hybrid Learning Faculty launch 

HEE’s Technology Enhanced Learning (HEE TEL) team is expanding the Virtual Instructor Led Learning (VILL) project which aims to support the health and care education community to increase their confidence and capability as they transition to designing, developing and delivering learning and education virtually and in a hybrid way.

As part of the project to support educators and the education community, HEE TEL has developed a Virtual and Hybrid Learning Faculty (VHLF). The faculty is a place for educators, and those involved within the health and care education community, to access useful on-demand resources, guides, elearning and technical support when designing, developing and delivering virtual and hybrid learning. It will showcase best practice principles, learning opportunities and offer advice on how to get involved in the community, giving educators the opportunity to support colleagues and find out the latest news.  The faculty is now live on the Learning Hub, a digital platform enabling the health and care workforce to contribute and share a wide variety of learning resources.

NHSX would like your feedback

NHSX would like your feedback on how you think they are doing to digitally transform the NHS and social care. They’d like to hear from those working in health technology and digital services across the NHS and social care, or leaders or managers in clinical and non-clinical roles. The research is conducted independently and fully anonymous, it’s open until 8 October 2021.

elearning for Healthcare

Keep up to date with all the latest additions to the eLfH platform here. 

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.

Foundation elearning programme update October 2021

Posted on: October 5th, 2021 by Hannah Denness No Comments

The most important skill that a Doctor in Training can develop is to know the limits of their competence. When should you call for help?

Available in elearning for healthcare’s Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) – these sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 1: Clinical Assessment, FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation, FPC 3: Holistic Planning, FPC 4: Communication and Care, FPC 5: Continuity of Care, FPC 6: Sharing the Vision, FPC 9: Quality Improvement and FPC 12: Continuing Professional Development:

You can sign on to the elearning with your login supplied by elearning for healthcare at any time during your foundation training.

Horus and Turas have deep links to elearning for healthcare sessions from the Foundation curriculum and therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.

 

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