About the End-of-life Care for All programme
The End-of-life Care for All (e-ELCA) programme is an elearning library which provides resources to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce so that well-informed high-quality care can be delivered by confident and competent staff and volunteers to support people wherever they happen to be.
e-ELCA has been highlighted as a resource to help with implementation of the NICE Guidelines on improving care for people who are in their last days of life.
Th e-ELCA elearning library offers over 180 highly interactive sessions which are grouped into 9 modules.
- Advance care planning
- Assessment in end-of-life care
- Communications skills
- Symptom management, comfort, and wellbeing
- Integrating learning in end-of-life care
- Social care
- Bereavement care
- Spiritual care
- Specialist care
Before accessing any of the eELCA sessions, please be aware that some of the content may be distressing.
Select the button below to view/download a programme guide which introduces e-ELCA and details all the resources available.
Which e-ELCA resources are suitable for me and my role?
e-ELCA offers learning paths to provide targeted learning for specific staff groups, defined curricula, and condition-specific end-of-life care.
Learning paths are short courses collated from relevant resources from the e-ELCA library to help you to quickly access the sessions suitable you and your role.
Learning paths are a starting point and the sessions within them will signpost you to related e-ELCA sessions which may also be of interest.
Please select the buttons below to view the learning paths currently available.
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Clinicians
Clinicians
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for doctors.
- General practitioners with an interest in palliative and end-of-life care
- Foundation doctors.
- Out of Hours Urgent Care Practitioners: Core and additional pathways
- Internal medicine trainees: Years 1 and 2, and Year 3
- Medical students.
- Ambulatory teams
- Specialist palliative care.
- Caring for people with heart failure.
- Caring for people with chronic kidney disease.
- Caring for people with motor neurone disease.
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end-of-life care
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Nursing staff
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning paths for nurses
- Band 5 nurses working in specialist palliative care services: Core and additional learning pathways.
- Registered nurses in acute hospitals caring for patients in the last days of life. Core and additional learning pathways.
- Skills for Care learning path: Nurses working in care homes.
- Ambulatory teams
- Specialist palliative care.
- Caring for people with heart failure.
- Caring for people with chronic kidney disease.
- Caring for people with motor neurone disease.
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end-of-life care.
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Allied health professionals
Allied health professionals
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Health and social care support workers
Health and social care support workers
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for social care workers.
- Royal College of Nursing learning path: Healthcare support workers caring for people near the end of life.
- Skills for Care learning path: Care workers supporting a person near the end of life.
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end-of-life care.
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Health and social care managers, administrators, and clerical staff
Health and social care managers, administrators, and clerical staff
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for healthcare administrators.
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for healthcare managers.
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for social care managers.
- Priorities for care of the dying person: learning path for healthcare administrators.
- Clerical staff working in palliative care and end-of-life care services: Core and additional learning pathways.
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end-of-life care.
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Volunteers
How can e-ELCA support the training and development of my staff?
e-ELCA can provide a great deal of support for the development of your staff.
Priorities of care for the dying person learning paths
A selection of e-ELCA sessions have been mapped against the 9 high-level learning objectives in ‘One Chance to Get it Right’ and are available as Priorities for the care of the dying person learning paths for specific staff groups, including:
- doctors
- nurses
- allied health professionals
- social care managers
- social care workers
- healthcare managers
- healthcare administrators
These learning paths will be useful to those wanting to include e-ELCA within an existing curriculum or as local mandatory training.
Select the button below for more information.
Priorities of care for the dying person learning paths >
Bespoke learning paths
e-ELCA can also be used to collate bespoke learning paths to meet the specific learning needs of individual Trusts or organisations. These can be hosted on your organisation’s LMS, ESR or the elfh hub.
Training needs analysis tools are available to help you assess your own training needs. These will help you to identify your areas of strength and those you need to focus on.
Select the button below to view.
Select the button below to view some examples of the bespoke learning paths currently supporting NHS Trusts and partner organisations.
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Bespoke learning paths
Bespoke learning paths
- Bath and Northeast Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire Group: All staff who have an interest in end-of-life care
- Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly: All staff working in end-of-life care
- East of England: Introduction to end-of-life care (group B staff)
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Clinical healthcare professionals working in end-of-life care
- Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Registered nurses and AHPs working in end-of-life care
- Yorkshire and Humber: e-ELCA taster sessions for social care staff
- Yorkshire and Humber: e-ELCA taster sessions for healthcare staff
- Yorkshire and Humber: e-ELCA taster sessions for health and social care staff working in palliative and end-of-life care services
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all doctors (year 1)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all doctors (year 2)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all doctors (year 3)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all doctors (year 4)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all doctors (year 5)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all other healthcare staff (year 1)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: End-of-life care core plus learning for all other healthcare staff (year 2)
- United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust: e-ELCA Core plus learning for all other healthcare staff (year 3)
- Skills for Care: Care workers supporting a person near the end of life
- Royal College of Nursing: Healthcare support workers working with people near the end of life
Executive group
Andi Blackmore
Programme Manager, NHSE elfh
Chris Wood
Project Manager, NHSE elfh
Dr Sarah Hanrott
Clinical Lead for e-ELCA
Dr Sarah Cox
Vice President, Association for Palliative Medicine
Project team
Dr Sarah Hanrott
Clinical Lead
Claire Beattie
Lead Learning Designer, NHSE elfhChris Wood
Project Manager, NHSE elfh
Ian Blacklock
Learning Designer, NHSE elearning for healthcare
Alex Cleary
Learning Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
Rachel Grant
Learning Designer, NHSE elearning for healthcare
Project team (2009 to 2022)
Dr Richard Kitchen
Clinical Lead (2017-2022)
Professor Bee Wee
Clinical Lead (2009-2013)
Claire Henry
National Programme Director, National End of Life Care Programme (2010-2013)
Professor Christina Faull
Clinical Lead (2013-2017)
Victoria Winlow
Assistant Programme Manager, HEE elearning for healthcare (2010-2017)
Glenis Freeman
Independent Consultant (2010-2017)
Original module editors
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Communication skills
- Esther Waterhouse and Andrew Thorns
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Assessment
- Jayne Chidgey-Clark
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Bereavement
- Karen Henry
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Spirituality
- Margaret Holloway
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Symptom management
- Martine Meyer
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Integrating learning
- Martine Meyer, Andrew Thorns and Jo Wilson
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Advance care planning
- Shaun Kinghorn
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Social care
- Tes Smith
How to access
In order to access the e-ELCA programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.
To view the e-ELCA programme, select the View button below. If you already have an account with elfh, you will also be able to login and enrol on the programme from the View button.
NHS healthcare staff in England
The e-ELCA programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
Further details are available here.
Not an NHS organisation?
If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access elfh Hub, you may be able to access the service by creating an OpenAthens account.
To check whether or not you qualify for free access via OpenAthens, you can view the eligibility criteria and register on the ‘OpenAthens’ portal.
Access for care home or hospice staff
To register for the e-ELCA programme, select the ‘Register’ button in the top right hand corner of the page. Select the option ‘I am a care home or hospice worker’ then enter your care home / hospice name or postcode and select it from the options available in the drop down list. Finally enter your care home / hospice registration code and select ‘Register’. You may need to see your employer to get this code.
If your employer does not have a code, then they need to contact the elfh Support Team. The Support Team can either give the employer the registration code or arrange a bulk upload of all staff.
Detailed instructions on how to gain access are available here.
Access for social care professionals
Access to elfh content is available to all social care professionals in England whose employers are registered with the Skills for Care Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS). Every employer providing ASC-WDS workforce information to Skills for Care has been given a user registration code for their staff. This code enables you to self-register for access to e-ELCA. Please contact your employer for more details about the registration code.
For information about registering your organisation with the NMDS-SC your employer should access: https://www.skillsforcare.org.uk/About/Contact-us/Contact-details.aspx#NMDSSC or contact the Skills for Care Support Service via email: ascwds-support@skillsforcare.org.uk or telephone: 0113 241 0969.
If you have a registration code, you can register by clicking here.
Registering large numbers of users
If you are a HR, IT or Practice Manager and would like to register and enrol large numbers of staff within your organisation for access onto the e-ELCA programme, please contact elfh directly.
Organisations wishing to use their own LMS
For HR departments wanting to know more about gaining access to courses using an existing Learning Management System please contact elfh directly to express interest.
How to license
In the event that you do not qualify for free access to the e-ELCA programme, you are able to license access through eIntegrity, a community-interest company established for this purpose.
You can check whether or not you qualify for free access by clicking on the ‘Register’ button above.
For more information on the licensing options available for the e-ELCA programme, please visit the eIntegrity website.
More information
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.