As part of the COVID-19 response a new programme was created for interim foundation Year 1 doctors who are being fast tracked into their Foundation Training.
This programme has been launched 53,161 times since it went live earlier this month with more than 4700 elfh accounts created.
The Foundation Fast Track elearning programme contains essential learning for Interim Foundation Year 1 (FiY1) doctors who are being fast tracked into their Foundation Training to support the workforce in responding to the pandemic.
The courses include a cut down version of the Statutory and Mandatory programme focusing on the key requirements for FiY1 doctors, and the Doctors in Training Induction scenarios, each of which contains a related assessment. Users will meet patients in each of the scenarios and follow their journeys. Each scenario covers relevant learning objectives and allows users to focus on key professional skills that they will need in their role as a Foundation Doctor.
The following courses from the Foundation learning programme are also included and are aimed at the key areas relating to the treatment of patients during the Coronavirus pandemic:
- Professional capabilities 9: Recognises, assesses and initiates management of the acutely ill patient (FiY1)
- Professional capabilities 11: Obtains history, performs clinical examination, formulates differential diagnosis and management (FiY1)
- Professional capabilities 13: Prescribes safely
To access the Foundation Fast Track elearning programme visit https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/Component/Details/611029.
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Domestic Violence and Abuse e-learning - New sessions available
Dear colleagues
Please find below details about new sessions available on the Domestic Violence and Abuse elearning programme to support health visitors and nurses working with those affected by domestic violence and abuse.
I would be grateful if you would share it among your networks to advise that it is now available via Health Education England elearning for healthcare.
New content added to the Domestic Violence and Abuse elearning programme
Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has been working with the Institute of Health Visiting to add new content to the Domestic Violence and Abuse elearning programme.
The planned updates to the existing elearning programme are particularly timely due to the expected rise in domestic violence and abuse cases as a result of the considerable social and economic challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A leading domestic abuse charity in the UK has already reported a 25% increase in contacts after the start of the COVID-19 lockdown.
The Domestic Violence and Abuse elearning package aims to equip health visitors and nurses with the skills and knowledge to enable them to provide a proactive, responsive and safe service to families experiencing domestic violence and abuse.
The new content covers four new introductory modules to complement the existing sessions. The elearning has been developed following a refresh of the evidence, policy and legislation on domestic violence and abuse. Each of the four elearning modules last around 30-45 minutes.
The following sessions are now available:
- Understanding domestic violence and abuse
- Identification of domestic violence and abuse
- Risk assessment for victims of domestic violence and abuse
- Safety planning and support for families
For more information about the Domestic Violence and Abuse programme, including details of how to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/domestic-violence-and-abuse-elearning-for-health-visitors-and-nurses/.
COVID-19 update for w/c 27 April 2020
HEE elearning for healthcare’s (elfh) COVID-19 elearning programme is free to access, with no requirement to log in, for the entire UK health and care workforce, including the NHS, independent sector and social care.
The HEE elfh COVID-19 elearning programme continues to be well used by health and care professionals responding to the pandemic. The programme has been live since mid-March and it has now been launched 884,928 times.
The COVID-19 programme now includes:
- Essential Guidance from the NHS, UK Government, WHO and BMJ
- Public Health England – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Minimum Requirements for Staff Returning to the NHS
- Critical Care and Ward-Based Equipment Guides
- Resources for Staff Working in Critical Care Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Acute Hospital Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Primary Care and Community Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in a Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Setting
- Resources for Nurses, Midwives and AHPs Returning to work, being Redeployed or Up-Skilled
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end of life care
- Resources for Specific Professions, Support Workers and Volunteers
- Staff Wellbeing and Resilience during COVID-19
Daily content updates
28 April: The COVID-19 elearning programme is still being well used by the health and care workforce. It has been launched 850,549 times since it went live mid-March 2020.
We have recently added a new webinar for pharmacists supporting 111 via the Returning Clinicians (excluding GPs) programme. This resource can be accessed here.
For more information about the programme including a drop down list of resources available by role select here.
30 April: The health and care workforce continues to find the COVID-19 elearning programme useful and we’re receiving positive feedback from a range of professional groups. It has been launched 884,928 times since it went live mid-March 2020.
We have added dental resources to the Returning Clinicians programme which you can find here.
We have also added a new learning path for nurses who have been deployed into primary and community care. The learning path can be accessed here.
We have recently added a new webinar for pharmacists supporting 111 via the Returning Clinicians (excluding GPs) programme. This resource can be accessed here.
For more information about the programme including a drop down list of resources available by role select here.
For more information and to access the HEE elfh COVID-19 programme visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/coronavirus/.
COVID-19 update for w/c 20 April 2020
HEE elearning for healthcare’s (elfh) COVID-19 elearning programme is free to access, with no requirement to log in, for the entire UK health and care workforce, including the NHS, independent sector and social care.
The HEE elfh COVID-19 elearning programme continues to be well used by health and care professionals responding to the pandemic. The programme has been live since mid-March and it has now been launched ****** times.
The COVID-19 programme now includes:
- Essential Guidance from the NHS, UK Government, WHO and BMJ
- Public Health England – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Minimum Requirements for Staff Returning to the NHS
- Critical Care and Ward-Based Equipment Guides
- Resources for Staff Working in Critical Care Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Acute Hospital Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Primary Care and Community Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in a Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Setting
- Resources for Nurses, Midwives and AHPs Returning to work, being Redeployed or Up-Skilled
- Resources to support staff with difficult conversations and end of life care
- Resources for Specific Professions, Support Workers and Volunteers
- Staff Wellbeing and Resilience during COVID-19
Daily content updates
20 April: In response to feedback from users you can now access content on the COVID-19 programme by selecting your role from a drop-down box on the elfh website. We have also added some short “how to” videos to help users with the registration process and accessing content.
A new learning path for staff working in a mental health and learning disabilities setting is now available. This includes resources on physical healthcare specifically general, advanced and COVID-19 physical health skills.
For more information and to access the programme select here.
21 April: The elfh COVID-19 programme has been launched more than 740,000 times since it went live in mid-March 2020.
A new learning path has been added to the “Resources for Nurses, Midwives and AHPs Returning to work, being Redeployed or Up-Skilled” folder called “Physical skills for Nurses, and AHPs, working in Mental Health, Learning Disability and Autism”. Access this resource here.
As part of the COVID-19 response a new programme was created for interim foundation Year 1 doctors who are being fast tracked into their Foundation Training. This programme has been launched 23,347 times since it went live earlier this month. To access this programme select here.
External resources directory
Health Education England’s Technology Enhanced Learning (HEE TEL) team received many offers of support from a range of organisations and commercial suppliers to support the workforce in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.
HEE TEL’s content review group reviewed and collated the resources into a directory for the wider system to access. The directory has been accessed more than 1700 times since it was created. To access the directory select here.
If you have any queries about the directory, please email: tel@hee.nhs.uk.
22 April: New content on the Delegated Administration of Insulin for health and social care support workers has been added to the “Resources for Staff Working in Primary Care and Community Setting” folder and can be accessed here.
We have also added content for radiographers to the “Resources for Specific Professions” folder, which can be accessed here. The resources include radiographs of the adult chest and COVID-19 Radiography Journal articles.
The “how to” videos created to support users registering and accessing content on the elfh Hub have also been added to our support site and can be viewed here.
23 April: Updated standard operating procedures (SOPs) for NHS London Nightingale have been added to the “Resources for Staff Working in Critical Care Setting” folder and can be accessed here.
We have also added a new resource for AHPs into the “Resources for Staff Working in Acute Hospital Setting” folder. The new content can be accessed here.
24 April: Today we have added updated quick reference guides (QRGs) into the “Resources for Staff Working in Critical Care Setting” folder. These can be accessed here.
We have also added two additional videos from Public Health England on personal protective equipment (PPE). The videos are for members of the workforce working in care homes and for those working in health and social care settings. The videos are available here.
For more information about the programme including a drop down list of resources available by role select here.
Future updates
From week commencing 27 April 2020 these updates will reduce in frequency to two or three each week. Please keep up to date with our work by following us on Twitter @HEE_TEL.
HEE update
HEE is producing a weekly bulletin with updates about its work as part of the COVID-19 response. This week’s issue can be accessed here.
For more information and to access the HEE elfh COVID-19 programme visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/coronavirus/.
Health Education England Stakeholder Briefing – Issue 2
Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly Covid-19 stakeholder bulletin.
HEE is working with partners to support the system wide response to COVID-19. Our priority is to ensure trainees and learners are kept informed of immediate changes to their training and recruitment, as well as to support returners to the NHS.
In this bulletin we will provide:
- Overview of HEE and our partner’s national response to COVID-19
- An update from your regional office
- Signposting to useful resources and contact information
We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:
Medical – Almost 3,000 final-year medical students have now signed up to join the COVID-19 frontline, and hundreds will begin this week (April 13).
Read the full story here
Nursing and Midwifery Returners – As part of system-wide planning, we are working as Team CNO and with our key stakeholders to support our colleagues working in health and social care. In this unprecedented situation we are working with those who have relevant skills and knowledge to support the national response.
We are supporting the Your NHS Needs You campaign asking former registrants to consider returning to support our health and care services.
We are also working in partnership with the Chief Nursing Officers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on UK-wide policy and guidance to support the deployment of additional nurses and midwives to support patients and families during the covid-19 outbreak.
This includes registered nurses and midwives and colleagues from our own organisation and other arm’s length bodies (ALBs) who are registered nurses and midwives.
Nursing and Midwifery Students – Over 15,000 nursing and midwifery students from across the country have now opted to join NHS frontline staff in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
These students were the first to be contacted by their university and asked about their interest and whether they would like to opt-in to a paid placement.
This has now been extended to include all nursing cohorts eligible for the extended paid-placements as part of the revised education programmes permitted by the COVID-19 legislation.
All second- and third-year undergraduate nursing students, second- and third-year midwifery students, and postgraduate nursing and midwifery students are also being contacted by their university to discuss their options.
AHPs – HEE is continuing to develop proposals to provide safe and beneficial opportunities for our AHP students that allows them to keep developing their skills while supporting the NHS at this difficult time. Universities are asked to contact their eligible AHP students to discuss their options for using their education programme to help with the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The HEE-led COVID-19 AHP student data collection is now live for eligible second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students to note and then report their preferences for opting-in to paid clinical practice. The details of students who opt-in will be reported by HEE to the ‘Regional Workforce Cells’ who will place students with NHS provider organisations.
This data collection is to support the AHP Student Support Guide and the joint AHP leads letter (available here).
Guidance for students who do deploy is here.
We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:
Postgraduate medical trainees continue to provide a significant contribution to service and are an essential part of plans to support the response to COVID-19. Therefore, it has been agreed to cease all planned rotations in May, June and July.
Letter from the four Statutory Education Bodies to all trainees, including information on management of ARCPs.
As NHS Nightingale Hospitals become operational, it is anticipated there may be requests for medical and dental trainees to be redeployed into them. Guidance for postgraduate medical and dental trainees has been uploaded to our website.
Frequently asked questions for trainees are updated regularly on this page.
Information and guidance around Quality during the Covid-19 pandemic
Health Education England is stopping all routine education quality activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Our focus remains on the quality of the clinical learning environment and its impact on the safety of learners and patients.
Our principles, expectations and information on how to raise concerns during this time are set out in the documents below:
- HEE statement on stopping quality visits during Covid-19
- Escalating concerns process during Covid-19
- Quality Principles during Covid-19
We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:
HEE’s elearning for healthcare (elfh) COVID-19 elearning programme is available, free of charge, to all health and care professionals in the UK. It has been launched more than 650,000 times since it went live on 18 March 2020. The elfh content has also been made available, via eIntegrity, free of charge to health and care professionals working throughout the world and is being used in 79 countries to date. Thank you for continuing to share details about our COVID-19 elearning programme.
Regularly updated and now includes:
- Essential Guidance from the NHS, UK Government, WHO and BMJ
- Public Health England – Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Resources for Staff Working in Critical Care Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Acute Hospital Setting
- Resources for Staff Working in Primary Care and Community Setting
- Resources for Nurses, Midwives and AHPs Returning to work, being Redeployed or Up-Skilled
- Resources for other Healthcare Staff Returning to Work
- Resources for End of Life Care COVID-19
- Resources for Specific Professions
- Resources for Volunteers supporting Health and Social Care
- Critical Care and Ward-Based Equipment Guides
- Staff Wellbeing and Resilience during COVID-19
Supporting the wellbeing of the NHS workforce:
HEE is recruiting experienced medical educators, academics and others to support our educational functions. These roles, undertaken remotely, will support the welfare of our junior doctors at a time of increased stress.
HEE is proud to support a mental wellbeing support package launched by the NHS. Our NHS people are doing extraordinary things in the face of an extraordinary challenge, and so need an extraordinary level of support. All NHS people will have access to a range of support through one point of contact:
- a free wellbeing support helpline 0300 131 7000, available from 7.00 am – 11.00 pm seven days a week, providing emotional support from trained volunteers and onward signposting to specialist financial advice, bereavement care and coaching
- a 24/7 text alternative to the above helpline – simply text FRONTLINE to 85258
- online peer to peer, team and personal resilience support, including through Silver Cloud, and free mindfulness apps including Unmind, Headspace Sleepio and Daylight
More information on support can be found here.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Webinars –
- On Friday 17 April at 7pm our Chief Nurse Mark Radford will be hosting a webinar and answering student nursing and midwives questions, providing advice and guidance.
You can join the webinar via this link
- SuppoRTT – HEE has a series of webinars for doctors who are coming back from a break from clinical practice into an unprecedented and uncertain period of clinical work.
Find out more about upcoming webinars here
Watch recordings of previous webinars here
Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEEs webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.
Coronavirus programme is now available via AICC
The free, open access programme includes key materials to help the entire UK health and care workforce, including those working in the NHS, the independent sector and social care respond to the Coronavirus pandemic.
AICC information: For those organisations that use our AICC functionality to launch our sessions on their own organisation’s Learning Management System (LMS), AICC Links to the sessions are now available on the following link:
https://portal.e-lfh.org.uk/home/aiccreport. (In the programme section clear the list by unselecting ‘All Programmes’ and then specifically click on the ‘Coronavirus COVID-19’ programme to restrict the list).
The Coronavirus programme currently includes limited resources, but we will add more content in the coming days and weeks. The additional content will include new sessions and content curated from different sources such as existing HEE elfh sessions and materials from other organisations including NHS England and NHS Improvement or the World Health Organization. For more information about the programme visit: www.e-lfh.org.uk/coronavirus.
For any assistance on using these links via AICC, please contact our support
desk support@e-lfh.org.uk.
Free, open access to COVID-19 e-learning programme for entire UK health and care workforce
Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has created an elearning programme in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic that is free to access, without logging in*, for the entire UK health and care workforce, including those working in the NHS, the independent sector and social care.
The programme includes key materials to help the health and care workforce respond to Coronavirus.
The Coronavirus programme currently includes limited resources, but we will add more content in the coming days and weeks. The additional content will include new sessions and content curated from different sources such as existing HEE elfh sessions and materials from other organisations such as NHS England and NHS Improvement or the World Health Organization.
Content in the Coronavirus programme currently includes:
- Essential Guidance from the NHS, Government and WHO
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Personal Protection Equipment
- Critical Care Resources
- RCGP learning
- Invasive Ventilation
- Intensive Care Medicine
- Anaesthesia
- Induction of International and Returning GPs
- Statutory and Mandatory Training
HEE elfh has removed the requirement to log in to access the Coronavirus (COVID-19) programme to make it as easy as possible for the health and care workforce to access the learning resources. However, be aware that accessing the content without logging in means that your learning activity won’t be tracked and you won’t create a learning record. If you wish to have a learning record to demonstrate your compliance you will need to have an elfh account and be logged in. You can register for an elfh account using any email address.
For more information about the programme, which is free for the health and care workforce to access without the need to register, visit www.e-lfh.org.uk/coronavirus .
Another HEE resource, SCRIPT elearning, is now freely available to anyone with a NHS email address. For more information visit www.safepresciber.org, email info@safeprescriber.org and or follow @safeprescriber on Twitter.
Health Literacy
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Health Education England (HEE) have collaborated to develop a new, free elearning module for people working in health and care to understand the role health literacy plays in the health and social care systems.
Health literacy is about people having enough knowledge, understanding, skills and confidence to use health information, to be active partners in their care, and to navigate health and social care systems. Therefore, to access, assess and apply health information, people need to be health literate. People working in health and social care need to be aware of health literacy and of the techniques that can help to increase understanding.
The elearning resource takes about 30 mins to complete. At the end of the module learners will know why health literacy is important and how to use some simple techniques including TeachBack, chunk and check, using pictures and simple language to improve communication and check understanding with others. After each section learners complete an action plan detailing how they plan to use the techniques in practice. This plan can be used as evidence of learning in appraisals or professional portfolios.
This elearning resource is pitched educationally as an introduction to health literacy, why it is important and the core techniques that can be used to improve health literacy. The resource supports a more blended approach to learning and spreading awareness of health literacy, building on the NES resource in The Health Literacy Place and HEE’s health literacy toolkit .
For more information about the free Health Literacy elearning programme, including details on how to access, visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/health-literacy/.
How can a new radiology trainee approach the level of knowledge required to complete the Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists (FRCR) examinations and core radiology training?
The knowledge and skills required are broad, but the trainee is also required to know them in detail. Add to this the fact that much of this knowledge is new, as radiology, particularly the physics, is not well covered during medical school or foundation training. There is so much to cover, with so many possible resources out there. Books provide a lot of information, but can be difficult to digest and retain, and can become out of date quickly in such an ever-changing field. There are many online resources, but it is hard to know which to trust.
The Radiology Integrated Training Initiative (R-ITI) was developed by the Royal College of Radiologists in collaboration with Health Education England elearning for healthcare to address this issue. I have used it throughout my training and have been successful in all of my FRCR exams on first attempt and have progressed from core training into sub-specialty training satisfactorily.
The R-ITI modules cover all the required knowledge of the curriculum, and practical skills such as procedures. The interactive nature makes them more engaging, which is essential for long revision sessions! They also undergo regular review and updates, so as to remain relevant.
If you are finding the prospect of tackling the entirety of the FRCR syllabus daunting, then I would highly recommend looking at the R-ITI modules on offer, as a way of breaking it down into more manageable blocks. Alternatively, you may have a specific topic in your subspecialty interest that you have been struggling with, in which case you may wish to check the R-ITI library for an interactive module to help you.
Whatever your need, check with R-ITI first.
For more information about R-ITI, including details on how to access, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/radiology/.