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
Meet the team
Katy Kerr
Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean, Workforce Organisation, South East, Thames Valley & Wessex, Health Education England
Dr Alison Tavaré
Primary Care Clinical Lead, West of England Academic Health Science Network and NHS@Home, NHS England and Improvement
Emma Self
Delivery and Policy Lead for Enhanced Health in Care Homes, Discharge and Community Services Team, NHS England and Improvement
Carey Bamber
Senior Strategic Engagement Lead, Discharge and Community Services Team, Primary Care, Community Services & Strategy, NHS England and Improvement
Sue Robinson
Senior Delivery Manager, NHS@Home - Personalised Care Group, NHS England and Improvement
Patricia Howe
Programme Manager, Directorate of Innovation and Transformation, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, Health Education England
Chris Gay
Project Manager, Directorate of Innovation and Transformation, Simulation and Immersive Technologies, Health Education England
Chris Wood
Project Manager, HEE elearning for healthcare
Naomi Knight
Graphic Designer, HEE elearning for healthcare
Louise Garrahan
Senior Marketing and Communications Officer, HEE elearning for healthcare
Nick Peres
Immersive Technology Advisor - NHS England
How to access
In order to access any elfh 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 Enhanced Health in Care Homes: Workforce Development 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.
If you already have an account with elfh, then you can enrol on to the Enhanced Health in Care Homes: Workforce Development programme by logging in to the elfh Hub, selecting My Account > Enrolment and selecting the programme. You can then access the programme immediately in the My eLearning section.
NHS healthcare staff in England – ESR
The Enhanced Health in Care Homes: Workforce Development programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this e-learning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.
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.
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
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