About the Enhanced Health in Care Homes programme

The Simulation and Immersive Technologies team within Health Education England Technology Enhanced Learning (HEE TEL) has worked in partnership with NHS @Home and the NHS England Enhanced Health in Care Homes programme to develop a collection of virtual reality (VR) 360-degree video resources.

The videos are designed for care home professionals and carers to help them develop their knowledge of key clinical conditions that someone in their care might experience. These videos will help them to know when a resident is unwell and when they may need to contact the NHS. It also shows some tools that healthcare staff and the NHS might use to support people, for example, remote monitoring.

These resources will also be of interest to healthcare professionals seeking to better understand how care is delivered in a care home setting and how they can work with care home professionals as part of the multi-disciplinary team. It is supported by this helpful video showing how multidisciplinary teams can work together to improve the health of residents, and work with them to plan their proactive and personalised care.

Each resource provides a VR 360 experience of a care home environment and the situations and conversations that may take place. They have been co-produced with care home representatives.

The videos cover the following topics, aligned with the 7 priority areas in the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework:

• Introduction
• Personalised care
• Eating and drinking
• Wound care
• Mouth care
• Mobility and falls
• Dementia and communication
• End of life and pain

For a preview of the programme, please see the Enhanced Health in Care Homes 360 Interactive Training video.

More information

This work supports the NHS’s Long Term Plan by helping to move away from traditional reactive models of care delivery towards proactive care that is centred on the needs of individual residents, their families and care home staff. Such care can only be achieved through a whole-system, collaborative approach.

Find out more about the Enhanced Health in Care Homes framework.

Acknowledgements

Melanie Weatherley MBE, Co-Chair, Care Association Alliance
Ian Turner, Executive Chairman, Registered Nursing Home Association
Carey Bloomer, Information Governance Specialist / Care Home Consultant
Ola Alilaj, Senior Communication Manager, NHS England

How to access

To access this elfh programme, you will require a Learning Hub account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below. Note that if you hold a full elfh account, you can sign into the Learning Hub using your existing login credentials.

Register

To view the Enhanced Health in Care Homes: Workforce Development programme, select the View button below. If you already have a Learning Hub account, you will also be able to login and access the resources within the programme.

View

Not an NHS organisation?

If you are not an NHS health or care organisation and therefore do not qualify for free access to the Learning Hub, you may be able to access the service if you have an existing OpenAthens account. Please go to Learning Hub and sign in with your existing credentials.

If you do not have an existing OpenAthens account, please contact elfh directly to check whether you may be eligible for access.

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 Enhanced Health in Care Homes: Workforce Development  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.

More information

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the Learning Hub