On 31/07/2024, the Health Inequalities programme will move from the elfh Hub to the NHSE Learning Hub as part of a planned upgrade of our learning platforms.
The Learning Hub is a national digital learning platform providing easy access to a wide range of educational resources and support for the health and care workforce and educators. You are auto enrolled on the Learning Hub with your elfh account and new users can sign up for free.
What you need to do
If you have started this programme on the elfh Hub, please complete all relevant programme resources before the migration date. After this date, a record of your activity on the elfh Hub will still be available in the ‘My Activity’ area in your elfh account, including any certificates. If you are unable to complete the programme before the migration date, you can access it on the NHSE Learning Hub from the 31/07/2024. Your activity on the NHSE Learning Hub is recorded in the ‘My Learning’ section, including any certificates.
For some people in the UK there are still unfair and avoidable inequalities in their health as well as their access to and experiences of NHS services. Health inequalities are the preventable, unfair and unjust differences in health status between groups, populations or individuals that arise from the unequal distribution of social, environmental, and economic conditions within societies. They can determine the risk of people getting ill, their ability to prevent sickness, or their opportunities to take action and access treatment when ill health occurs.
After more than a century of improvement, increases in life expectancy have stalled. For women in the most deprived communities in England, using the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), there has been a decline in life expectancy in the last decade. People in more deprived areas spend more of their shorter lives in ill health than those in the least deprived areas.
The health inequalities programme is designed to help healthcare professionals to:
Core20PLUS5 is a national NHS England approach to support the reduction of health inequalities at both national and system level. The approach defines a target population cohort – the ‘Core20PLUS’ – and identifies ‘5’ focus clinical areas requiring accelerated improvement.
The most deprived 20% of the national population as identified by the national Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The IMD has seven domains with indicators accounting for a wide range of social determinants of health.
PLUS population groups we would expect to see identified are ethnic minority communities; inclusion health groups; people with a learning disability and autistic people; coastal communities with pockets of deprivation hidden amongst relative affluence; people with multi-morbidities; and protected characteristic groups; amongst others.
Inclusion health groups include people experiencing homelessness, drug and alcohol dependence, vulnerable migrants, Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, sex workers, people in contact with the justice system, victims of modern slavery and other socially excluded groups.
The final part sets out 5 clinical areas of focus. Governance for these 5 focus areas sits with national programmes; national and regional teams coordinate local systems to achieve national aims.
The health Inequalities programme is designed to provide healthcare professionals with a better understanding of the differences in the care that people could receive and the opportunities that they have to lead healthy lives – both of which can contribute to their health status and outcomes.
At the end of this course, you will:
Each of the 6 sessions in this programme take approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Narrowing health inequalities in chronic respiratory disease:
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Ash Birtles
• Kanar Ahmed
• Paul Baker
• Anthony Choules
• Jo Szram
• Professor Andrew Menzies-Gow
• Mark Dinsdale
Narrowing health inequalities in early cancer diagnosis:
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Orla Houlihan
• Kanar Ahmed
• Paul Baker
• Anthony Choules
• Jo Szram
• Professor Peter Johnson
Narrowing health inequalities in hypertension:
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Sophie Smith
• Kanar Ahmed
• Paul Baker
• Anthony Choules
• Adrian Stanley
• Shahed Ahmed
Narrowing health inequalities in maternity:
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Rosie Murphy
• Kanar Ahmed
• Paul Baker
• Anthony Choules
• Malini Prasad
• Josie O’Heney
• Rehan Khan
• Wendy Olayiwola
Narrowing health inequalities in severe mental illness (SMI):
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Subodh Dave
• Emma Tiffin
• Joseph Guirguis
• Lynne Hall
• Kanar Ahmed
• Paul Baker
• Anthony Choules
• Jo Szram
Narrowing health inequalities in sickle cell disorder:
• Dr Marina Soltan
• Dr Dianne Addei
• Dr Perla Eleftheriou
• Professor Baba Inusa
• Dr Sanne Lugthart
• Zainab Garba-Sani
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 Health Inequalities 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 Health Inequalities 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 e-Learning section.
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.
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 Health Inequalities programme, please contact elfh directly.
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.
Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.
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