To coincide with World Antibiotic Awareness Week and European Antibiotics Awareness Day, HEE is pleased to announce the launch of its latest elearning programme on Antimicrobial Resistance. The introductory level programme has been designed to support all health and social care staff – both clinical and non-clinical – in a variety of settings to understand the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance, and ways they can help to tackle this major health issue. The session was written by specialist antimicrobial pharmacist Dr Diane Ashiru-Oredope and is free to access from this link.

A new elearning resource, called Communicating with Empathy, is now available to access. This programme, developed by the PallE8 Palliative Care Group, consists of six sessions that have been developed to promote sensitive and effective communication in end of life care. The sessions use rich video and staff-patient scenarios to illustrate issues in communication in care.

The sessions are aimed at informal carers, agency and care home staff, healthcare assistants and other staff providing end of life care. The sessions are also available to access within Module 3 of the End of Life Care programme.

For more information visit http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/communicating-with-empathy/.

A new elearning programme aimed at Health Visitors and School Nurses has become available today, on the topic of Children’s Emotional and Additional Health Needs. This new learning resources is formed through a partnership between Public Health England, the Department of Health, SAPHNA, CPHVA and Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare programme.

The programme, consisting of six elearning sessions, focuses on early and co-ordinated support for children with emotional health and well-being issues, and complex or additional health needs. This comprehensive continuing professional development resource will equip both health visiting and school nursing teams with essential skills and knowledge to enable them to deliver high-quality early help in specialist areas.

For more information visit http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/childrens-emotional-and-additional-health-needs/

Disability Matters is an innovative elearning programme for anyone working or engaging with disabled children and young people (aged 0-25 years).

Co-developed with disabled young people and parent carers the sessions will improve your recognition and management of disability issues, teach you to communicate effectively and give you the confidence to support children and young people achieve the outcomes that matter to them.

The elearning can also be used by individuals and diversity teams to develop a welcoming and inclusive culture across NHS services.

Disability Matters comprises 58 topics.

For more information visit http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/disability-matters/

The care of people that are dying and support for their families is something that almost all health and social care staff contribute to, consider of great importance in their role and can get great satisfaction from. e-ELCA is a key resource for the development of staff to provide competent, compassionate and dignified care for patients at the end of life and support for their families.

The sessions in e-ELCA have been mapped to the learning objectives of the ‘One Chance to Get it Right’ report of the Leadership Alliance for Care of the Dying Person in 2014. A new training needs analysis session will help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and direct you to e-ELCA sessions to support your development.

Also, core and additional e-ELCA sessions for specific staff groups have been defined for:

• Doctors
• Nurses
• Allied health professionals
• Social care managers
• Social care workers
• Healthcare managers
• Healthcare administrators

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

A series of elearning modules and introductory video have been developed by E-learning for Healthcare (elfh), working with the Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme at the Department of Health. The elearning package is designed to support NHS organisations in their implementation of the Visitor and Migrant NHS Cost Recovery Programme following changes to the Overseas Visitor Charging Regulations in April 2015.  The elearning is not intended as a substitute for the guidance to these regulations but to support understanding of the rules.

The Cost Recovery Programme was set up in July 2014 to improve the systems for charging overseas visitors and migrant for their NHS healthcare in England. The programme aims to support and reinforce the principle of fairness by ensuring that everyone who can should contribute to the cost of the NHS without undermining the principle that the NHS is free at the point of delivery for residents.

The E-learning modules have been tailored to specific roles including Overseas Visitor Managers (OVMs), frontline administrative staff and clinicians.

A video “A guide for clinicians: cost recovery and working with Overseas Visitor Managers (OVMs)” has also been developed with the help of clinicians and OVMs.

The online training sessions enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point. They are designed and built to be engaging and interactive, using quality images, video, audio and animation to help trainees learn and retain knowledge. Content is presented using various templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies and ‘knowledge bites’.

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

A short elearning programme has been developed which supports the GP Induction and Refresher (I&R) Scheme and is aimed at GPs returning to work in the NHS who need an induction placement. The session provides a basic grounding of the principles and structure of the NHS, along with guidance on many aspects of the role of the modern GP, such as safeguarding, patient safety and ethics.

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