HEE elearning for healthcare has created ten surveys to gather feedback from users on its Coronavirus elearning programme. The programme launched in March 2020 and is freely available to all colleagues working in the NHS, independent sector and social care. The surveys are aimed at all health and care professionals and take just five minutes to complete:
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Care Certificate sessions re-designed to support mobile phone users
Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with Care Certificate leads in Health Education England and Skills for Care to ensure the Care Certificate elearning sessions are easy to access on a mobile phone. The re-design was initiated by feedback from learners and educational leads and reflects the different ways our users are now accessing learning.
The Care Certificate programme is a set of core standards that health and social care support workers adhere to during their daily working life.
The elearning programme underpins the theoretical learning for each standard, and there are also scenarios which support its completion in a wide range of care settings.
Designed with the unregistered workforce in mind, the Care Certificate was developed to provide standardised, structured learning at the beginning of a career in care. This aims to ensure that care workers have the same introduction to fundamental skills, knowledge and behaviours to support the provision of compassionate, safe, quality care to the individuals in their care.
The re-designed sessions include the same learning objectives and content as the previous versions and are suitable for learners accessing the resource on a desktop, laptop and tablet as well as on a mobile phone.
More information about the Care Certificate elearning programme is available here.
Updates to the Foundation e-learning programme
elfh has worked with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to update three sessions within the Foundation elearning programme.
The Foundation elearning programme is a free elearning resource for Foundation doctors.
All sessions are mapped directly to the 2016 Foundation Curriculum and the material is approved by UKFPO.
The following sessions have recently been updated:
- An Underperforming Colleague – What To Do
- Audit
- Mental Health Act
- Psychotic Disorders
- Stress – Bullying
For more information about the programme, including access details, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/
SCRIPT – supporting safer prescribing practices in primary and secondary care settings
The SCRIPT elearning programme provides portfolios of modules specifically for healthcare professionals working in primary and secondary care settings.
The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) Working Group on education reviewed different types of digital learning used to teach rational prescribing and assessed their effect on learner-related and clinically relevant outcomes.
The EACPT working group concluded that“elearning is the most-used type of digital learning for safe and effective prescribing education and is efficacious in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate prescribers the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes”.
SCRIPT modules cover a range of topics relating to prescribing, therapeutics and medicines safety and are categorised into different themes. Modules are suitable for any prescriber or anybody in training to be a prescriber, for example. foundation trainees, undergraduate medical students, doctors and non-medical prescribers.
Themes include:
- Principles of prescribing
- Prescribing in medical emergencies
- Prescribing in special circumstances
- Therapeutic groups
Each module takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. All course materials have been authored by a team of expert healthcare professionals and are regularly reviewed and updated.
What are the benefits in using the SCRIPT elearning programmes?
- Safer prescribing
SCRIPT enhances knowledge and confidence in prescribing correctly, improving patient safety, therapeutics and medicines management. - Professional development
Certificates are made available on completion of a module, which can be used for online learning portfolios as evidence of continuing professional development. - Flexible learning
SCRIPT is easily accessible and intuitive to use, allowing users to complete modules at their convenience and refer back to modules at any time. - Free to learners with an NHS.uk or NHS.net email address.
How do I access the elearning?
You can access the SCRIPT elearning programmes by visiting the SCRIPT website at: https://www.safeprescriber.org/
October update – new e-learning sessions for radiographers, radiologists and breast clinicians are available
In May 2020, the National Breast Imaging Academy (NBIA), in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh), launched their elearning programme for radiographers, radiologists and breast clinicians. This is the sixth monthly update about the programme.
The full programme of elearning sessions is due to launch in late 2020, but many sessions are available now, to support your training needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you would like to share your thoughts on the resources and input into the evaluation of the NBIA elearning programme, please visit our survey.
What’s new?
There are 79 elearning sessions available on the elfh Hub. The latest sessions to be added are:
- Breast Density
- Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- MRI Guided Biopsy
- Reflective Practice in Breast Imaging
Additional sessions will be added to the elearning catalogue as soon as they are ready.
What can I expect from the elearning sessions?
The interactive elearning sessions cover a wide range of topics on breast imaging and relevant aspects of surgery, oncology, pathology, nursing, and risk and prevention.
In addition to the recently added elearning sessions listed above, you can also access:
- Assessment for Mammographers
- Clinical Evaluation and Management of Male Breast Disease
- Epidemiology of Breast Cancer
- Further Mammographic Views
- QA, Standards and Guidance
New training videos added to the new elfh Learning Hub
The National Breast Imaging Academy (NBIA) has contributed five training videos on mammographic interpretation to the Learning Hub, which is a new digital platform, developed by Health Education England, providing a range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce.
These videos are part of a series of viva sessions to support breast imaging trainees including radiology trainees, breast clinicians and advanced/consultant practitioner film readers. Each session provides feedback and learning tips to support trainees in preparing for examinations.
The videos are over one hour in length and each file is 1.3 GB or larger due to the high-resolution mammograms included within the video content. Image quality is vital in supporting trainees in their diagnostics development and learning and the Learning Hub’s recent release to increase file size for audio and videos up to 2GB has enabled and widened access to these resources.
Take a look at these resources:
https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/986/Item
https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/987/Item
https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/988/Item
https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/989/Item
https://learninghub.nhs.uk/Resource/990/Item
What is the NBIA?
Hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, the National Breast Imaging Academy (NBIA) project is a collaborative, national, multidisciplinary initiative, involving training centres and NHS Trusts around the country as well as Health Education England, Public Health England, the Royal College of Radiologists, the Society and College of Radiographers, the Association of Breast Clinicians and elearning for healthcare.
For further information about the NBIA please visit: www.nationalbreastimagingacademy.org.
How to access the elearning
For more information about the programme, including details on how to access the NBIA elearning sessions, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/national-breast-imaging-academy/.
In addition to these monthly updates, please visit the HEE elfh news page and follow @HEE_TEL on Twitter for the latest news about the programme.
New content added to the Advanced Threat Protection programme
Since 2019, Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) have been working with NHS Digital to develop the Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) elearning programme.
This free elearning programme aims to upskill NHS ATP administrators to use the Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection service.
In addition to the five initial sessions, HEE elfh and NHS Digital have now launched further content to add to the programme.
The latest session ‘PowerBI Reporting’ covers using Power BI to extract data with ATP’s reporting Application Programming Interface (API), and present this data using charts and visualisations or export it for manipulation in software such as Excel.
The programme currently consists of the following six sessions with more planned for the future.
- Introduction to ATP
- Understanding Alerts and Incidents
- Threat Analytics
- Threat and Vulnerability Management
- Managing ATP Incidents and Alerts
- PowerBI Reporting
The Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection service, included within the Windows 10 licencing deal purchased centrally by the Department of Health and Social Care, is for the benefit of local NHS organisations and the NHS as a whole. It is part of a broader portfolio of data and cyber security services managed by NHS Digital. ATP Administrators across the NHS would benefit from being upskilled in using ATP’s features and its dashboards so they can further advance their organisational resilience to cyber security threats.
For more information about the elearning programme, including details of how to access it, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/advanced-threat-protection/.
Image Interpretation celebrates 10 years of improving patient care
The Image Interpretation elearning programme is celebrating its tenth anniversary.
The programme provides continuing professional development in image interpretation to support radiographers and other health professionals. It was initially developed to improve patient care by providing standardised elearning to support the radiography workforce as they move towards preliminary evaluations.
Image Interpretation is a partnership between Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and the Society and College of Radiographers.
The programme was first launched at United Kingdom Radiological Congress in 2010 with sessions on Adult Skelton and Adult Chest.
Now, in 2020, there are:
- 160 authors
- 454 sessions
- 21,386 active users
- 133,911 hours of learning
- 355,787 session launches
Dorothy Keane, clinical lead, said: “As clinical lead for this programme I am immensely proud of our achievements and look forward to continuing to develop the content, always remembering that this will improve patient’s clinical outcomes and never forgetting the importance of our patients during their time spent in imaging.
“The figures are a real tribute to the hard work of the authors, editors and learning designers who have turned Image Interpretation into one of the largest and most successful programmes within elfh.”
The programme focuses on core skills, both in developing new areas of work and in the review and updating of existing modules.
Currently, the team is working on creating new sessions for Radiographers as Researchers as well as further developing sessions on Orthopaedic Intervention. Future topics will include management, governance, career progression and recruitment.
Dorothy Keane said: “We greatly value our learners’ feedback and suggestions, many of which have led to the development of new sessions over recent years.”
Positive feedback from learners has included:
“Image Interpretation is key to the effective and safe clinical management of patients.”
“This is a fantastic resource which we should all be using to integrate learning into our day to day care of patients.”
“I found it invaluable for my self-directed learning as I was able to access those subjects which were particularly useful to me prior to my return to practice.”
More information about the programme, including access details, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/image-interpretation/
Spotting the Sick Child website relaunched
A learning resource that helps healthcare professionals assess acutely sick children has been updated by a team of expert clinicians to ensure its relevance to today’s clinical practice.
Spotting the Sick Child, which is developed by the Department for Health and Social Care and commissioned by Health Education England, features an interactive tool to improve healthcare professionals’ skills in identifying children with serious illness and learning the basics of how to assess children of all ages using clinical footage and evidence-based materials.
The resource is aimed at a range of colleagues including GPs, nurses and health visitors and was developed in response to anxiety over assessing children, as they need a different approach to adults. Spotting the Sick Child’s newly improved website now features additional resources including real life case studies and extensive video footage of real patients.
The website, which is hosted by Health Education England elearning for healthcare, also includes:
- Symptoms: learn to assess seven common symptoms
- My Waiting Room: test yourself on real patients at your own pace
- My Learning: customise your own learning environment and track your progress
Learners will receive a certificate once they complete the course and the resource can be used as a teaching material for others.
For more information and to access this resource, please visit: https://spottingthesickchild.com/.
New e-learning programme, Freedom to Speak Up in Healthcare in England, now available
Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with the National Guardian Office to develop three new elearning sessions to embed speaking up throughout health.
Freedom to Speak Up in Healthcare in England is a training programme aimed at everyone within the NHS including colleagues, managers and senior leaders, as well as volunteers, learners, students and those in training, regardless of their contract terms.
The three sessions explain what speaking up is, why it is important, and how to foster an environment where colleagues, when they speak up, are listened to, thanked and their suggestions followed up. The programme helps learners understand the vital role they can play and the support available to encourage a healthy speaking up culture which protects patient safety and enhances colleague experience.
The first session ‘Speak Up: core training for workers’ comprises the following topics:
- What speaking up is and why it matters
- How to speak up and confidentiality
- Barriers to speaking up
- The role of the guardian and the National Guardian’s Office
- Making a pledge.
The second session is for all line and middle managers and is focused more on listening and the barriers that can get in the way of speaking up (available soon).
The third session, is aimed at all senior leaders including executive board members (and equivalents), non-executive directors, and governors to help them understand their role in setting the tone for a good speaking up culture and how speaking up can promote organisational learning and improvement (available soon).
These modules will replace the current Freedom to Speak Up training.
For more information on the programme, including details on how to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/freedom-to-speak-up/
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