A new programme has been added to the elfh Hub: Clinical Pathways for Sick Children (Bronchiolitis, Fever and Diarrhoea and/or Vomiting).

This elearning resource has been developed to support the use of the South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks (SEC SCN) NHS acute care clinical pathways for pre-school children. It is intended for clinicians working within primary and community care who look after children in the pre-school age group and have to assess them when they are acutely sick. The programme is designed to equip learners with the clinical skills necessary to identify children with serious illness and to ensure parents can be confident in their assessment.

For further information on the programme and how to access the elearning please visit /programmes/clinical-pathways-for-sick-children/

We are proud to announce that there is a new course available in the Preventing Falls in Hospitals programme: CareFall: Reducing inpatient falls risk factors and post fall management.

The aim of this course is to give you the knowledge to identify risk factors for inpatient falls and how to reduce them, to give guidance on safely moving patients if they have fallen and how to assess them for a serious injury. It has primarily been developed for foundation level doctors working in acute or community hospitals, but other staff members with an interest in falls risk reduction are welcome to use it.

Please note that this course has been developed in Flash and will therefore not run on mobile devices.

All Health Visitors in England will need to be using the ASQ-3™ as part of 2-year health reviews by April 2015. The Department of Health is developing a population measure to show child development at 2-2½ years. The data for this will be collected using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ-3™) which is a parent completed tool. To support Health Visiting teams in preparing for this now, elearning sessions have been developed for Health Visitors and Nursery Nurses by HEE, the Department of Health, elearning for healthcare and the University of Hertfordshire. They are in two parts, each taking 30 minutes and incorporate video clips from real-life 2 to 21/2 year reviews and cover the practicalities of using the ASQ-3™.

The NHS England National VTE Prevention Programme has worked in partnership with Health Education England to develop a comprehensive suite of elearning modules aimed at Primary Care, undergraduates and commissioners.

Launched at the recent Patient First Conference on 26 November 2014, the VTE elearning programme sets out to raise awareness of the need for all healthcare professionals to recognize the signs and symptoms of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and the levers that can be used to drive best practice when it comes to VTE prevention and improved outcomes for patients.

The National VTE Prevention Programme has also signed up former England International Goalkeeper Paul Robinson to help raise awareness of VTE after he followed a near fatal blood clot on his lung last year. The video in which Paul speaks about his experience has been produced in partnership with NHS Choices and illustrates why ongoing VTE education is so important. Speaking about its release, Paul Robinson said:

“I hope that me telling my story really makes people think and that it helps even a few.”

The elearning modules are freely accessible to anyone with an NHS email address via the elearning for healthcare website:
https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/venous-thromboembolism/

ACUMEN is now looking for prospective authors for 2015. We hope to produce content focusing on the following topics;

Rash, hepatosplenomegaly, bruising, haematuria, head injury, polydipsia, polyuria, pruritus, abnormal Sensations, visual disturbance, weight loss, swallowing difficulties, medical problems in pregnancy, alcohol and substance dependence, aggressive / disturbed behaviour, delirium including substance abuse, dementia, the unconscious patient, abdominal pain, suicide/para-suicide, dysuria including sexual health, involuntary movement

If you are interested in producing content for ACUMEN under any of the above listed topics, then please send an email to mark.millar@e-lfh.org.uk stating your name, current role and the topics to which you wish to contribute. Expressions of interest should be received by us no later than Friday 19^th December 2014.

ACUMEN continues to expand its coverage of the acute medicine curriculum, and now has more that 275 scenarios and knowledge sessions available toy support your learning.

We have recently added a significant amount of new content covering topics such as medical problems in pregnancy, rash, acute confusion, poisoning, fever, oncology, interventional radiology, anaphylaxis, haematemisis & melaena, pericarditis, joint swelling, spontaneous bleeding and dyspepsia.

If you haven’t visited ACUMEN in a while, now is the time to take a look at what’s new and expand your knowledge of the many topics that are covered.

elfh scoops the Gold Award for the ‘Best elearning project – public sector’ at the 2014 elearning Age awards. The judges “were particularly impressed by the consistent approach to stakeholder engagement, the options for scaling, the variety of learning interventions, and the focus on evaluating the impact on behaviour and marketing. The programme meets different learning styles and abilities for a workforce that requires just-in-time learning and has limited flexibility to train without affecting 24/7 care. Working with thousands of clinical subject matter experts and myriad stakeholders, elfh is now recognised throughout the world for its vision, scope and skills, and its achievements in transforming UK healthcare training and patient care.”

The ICE-BLU project teaches the theoretical knowledge behind basic echo and lung ultrasound in the intensive care patient. The sessions are interactive and contain echocardiography videos to demonstrate teaching points. Teaching includes the physics of ultrasound, anatomy and basic views, left and right ventricular function, life-threatening pathologies, basic lung ultrasound and some of the limitations and pitfalls that may be encountered. The intended audience is intensive care and acute medicine doctors, anaesthetists and clinicians interested in assessment of the critically ill patient.

The sessions are mapped to the FICE curriculum but the whole module is suitable for anyone intending to undertake a hands-on training course or as a refresher of the knowledge previously acquired in this area. There is a final MCQ session, which will allow the production of a CPD certificate for those who have completed the eight sessions.

Thousands of people are affected by acute or chronic pain every year in the UK. For some this is short term due to illness or injury, for others chronic pain is a way of life. The National Pain Audit highlighted the inconsistencies with which pain is managed across primary and secondary care and, despite recent advances in both areas, patients are often referred too late for these services to make any significant difference.

e-PAIN is a multi-disciplinary programme designed to improve the early diagnosis and management of pain. The programme is aimed at all NHS healthcare professionals who do not specialise in pain medicine, but regularly encounter patients suffering from acute or chronic pain.

The e-PAIN programme has been developed by the Faculty of Pain Medicine in partnership with the British Pain Society and elearning for healthcare. Dr Douglas Justins, Clinical Lead for e-PAIN says: ‘This exciting and important project will help improve the recognition, assessment and safe treatment of unrelieved pain resulting in the significant improvement of patient care.’

For further information on the programme and how to access the elearning please visit http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/pain-management/