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Making Every Contact Count e-learning programme updates now live

Posted on: December 21st, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with Public Health England (PHE) and University of Brighton to update its Making Every Contact Count (MECC) elearning programme.

This resource, comprising four elearning sessions, is intended for anyone who has contact with people to “Make Every Contact Count” and develop public health knowledge. Based on feedback from learners, each of the four sessions have been reviewed and now benefit from revised and additional content with a focus on mental health. The template of the programme has also been updated.

In addition to the updated content, the MECC elearning programme has now received accreditation from The University of Brighton. The MECC elearning programme is already accredited by the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).

Dr Charlotte Ramage and Marianne Willmer from University of Brighton, said: “It has been a positive experience working with the PHE and HEE team. They have been inclusive and responsive to ideas throughout in the development of the online MECC programme. The elearning public health initiative has been carefully constructed to appeal to its widest possible audience. By broadening accessibility, we hope the end users feel confident to discuss the health of colleagues in their team and the general public and embrace the health messages for their own health and wellbeing.”

MECC is an approach to behaviour change that utilises the millions of day-to-day interactions that organisations and people have with other people to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.

MECC enables the opportunistic delivery of consistent and concise healthy lifestyle information and enables individuals to engage in conversations about their health at scale across organisations and populations. Drawing on behaviour change evidence, the approach maximises the opportunity within routine health and care interactions for a brief or very brief discussion on health and wellbeing factors.

A MECC interaction takes a matter of minutes and is not intended to add to the busy workloads of healthcare professionals and the wider workforce, rather it is structured to fit into and complement existing professional clinical, care and social engagement approaches.

The wider MECC elearning programme is designed to support learners in developing an understanding of public health and the factors that impact on a person’s health and wellbeing, emphasising how asking questions and listening effectively to people is a vital role for us all.

To access the free Making Every Contact Count elearning programme and view the updated sessions, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/making-every-contact-count/.

New content to the Educators Training Resource programme

Posted on: December 12th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has added new content to the Educators Training Resource programme to help educators in their role of supporting the careers of their junior colleagues.

The Supporting Career Conversations for Educators content can be found within the course, 06 – Guiding Personal and Professional Development as part of the Educators Training Resource Programme. The content sets out the rationale for providing careers support to more junior colleagues, trainees and learners and the value of this to the organisation.

The course introduces the underpinning principles of having supportive career-focussed discussions with junior colleagues and trainees. The course also offers some techniques, approaches and insights into best practice to better equip colleagues to support learners to help them move their careers forward in a satisfying direction.

The final session explores different ways individuals may make decisions about their careers, introduces a framework to help structure career conversations and demonstrates how even a five-minute conversation can make a positive difference to a colleague’s career.

The programme has several links to further resources to support this role.

The programme is available via the elfh Hub and the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

For more information on the Educators Hub visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/educator-hub/.

Foundation e-Learning Programme: Professional Capability: 20 Contributes to quality improvement

Posted on: December 5th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and approved by UKFPO – Foundation is a free elearning programme for Foundation doctors.

Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? If so, try some of our free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

The elearning sessions in Professional Capability: 20 “Contributes to quality improvement”, look at audit and evidence based practice. It outlines the study designs used in medical practice. You are provided with a guide to developing a structured research strategy which will help you find journal articles relevant to your clinical questions. How to evaluate a journal article is discussed using a linked example paper from the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

Sessions:

  • Audit
  • Evidence Based Medicine in Clinical Practice
  • Common Study Designs in Clinical Research
  • Explaining Evidence/Guidelines/Protocols to Patients
  • Guidelines in Clinical Practice
  • Searching the Literature and Locating Papers
  • How to Review a Paper

Sign in to the elearning with your login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

e-LfH Hub - Notice of downtime

Posted on: December 3rd, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) Hub will be offline on Friday 14 December 2018 from 12noon until 6pm on Sunday 16 December for maintenance to the IT infrastructure. We are upgrading the servers for increased performance and stability of the HEE elfh Hub.

During this time users will not be able to access the HEE elfh Hub.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

TEL News November 2018

Posted on: December 3rd, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

This month’s edition includes an update on the national Simulation-Based Education Framework and a round-up of recent events attended by the TEL team. There is also details of the new Learning from Deaths programme, new content on the Image Interpretation programme plus the release of the Perinatal Mental Health Framework.

Select the following link to access our full publication of TEL News.

National Education and Training Survey - share your views

Posted on: November 26th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The National Education and Training Survey (NETS) will gather feedback from multi-professional learners on clinical placements.

This is your chance to let us know about the quality of your experience whilst on placement so that improvements can be made and best practice shared.

Want to have your voice heard?

The survey will be available until 14 December 2018 for learners on placement. If you are on more than one placement during this time please complete the survey for your main placement between the 12-30 November 2018.

To complete the survey, which is accessible from laptops, tablets and smartphones, visit: www.hee.nhs.uk/NETS .

For further information or assistance, email: NETS@hee.nhs.uk

e-GP update

Posted on: November 8th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has been working with subject matter experts to undertake a review of 48 sessions within the General Practice 2012 Curriculum (e-GP) elearning Programme. To date 29 sessions have now been successfully reviewed and updated with 19 sessions remaining to assess.

This review includes elearning modules covering the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) curriculum such as Genetics in Primary Care, Care of People with Intellectual Disability, End of Life Care and others.

The sessions are being rewritten and updated by the RCGP and will be released to the HEE elfh Hub. In addition, all sessions containing video content are now being updated with transcripts and subtitles.

The e-GP resource provides a programme of elearning modules covering the RCGP curriculum. Each module is made up of reflective and interactive elearning sessions that enhance GP training and support preparation for appraisal and revalidation.

For more information about the e-GP programme please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/general-practitioners/.

e-Learning for Healthcare sessions in Foundation: Professional Capability: 19 Makes patient safety a priority in clinical practice

Posted on: November 8th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

elearning for healthcare sessions in Foundation: Professional Capability: 19 Makes patient safety a priority in clinical practice

Foundation specific elearning is developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and is approved by UKFPO.

The drive for quality in the NHS has patient safety at its heart. The elearning sessions in ‘Professional Capability: 19 Makes patient safety a priority in clinical practice’ concentrate on safe practice and what to do when things go wrong.

It begins with an interactive case study where learners diagnose and treat a patient, then evaluate the management plan. Moving on, learners examine safe personal working practices when treating patients. The session also looks at the management of febrile illnesses, infection control and disease notification. The focus then shifts to the importance of maintaining the learners’ own health, both physical and mental.

Finally, the sessions look at the building blocks that support quality and safety in the NHS, including how to raise concerns about patient safety, team working, clinical governance, patient outcome and experience.

  • Senior Advice: When to Stop for Help
  • Infection Control: Diarrhoea in an Inpatient
  • An Underperforming Colleague – What To Do
  • Clinical Governance
  • Safe Practice the Doctors Perspective
  • Infection Control: Air and Blood Borne Pathogens
  • Stress – Bullying
  • Outcomes and Patient Experience
  • Human factors and analysis of adverse events
  • Infection Control: Modes of Transmission
  • Introduction to Patient Safety
  • Handling Complaints
  • Medical Error: When Things Go Wrong
  • Disease Notification
  • Quality and Safety in the NHS
  • Errors and Experiences in Healthcare
  • Hospital Acquired Fever: What to do
  • Stress – Mental Health
  • Raising Concerns About Patient Safety
  • Minimising Risk in Healthcare Organisations
  • Hospital Acquired Fever: What to do Next
  • Health (Blood Borne Infection) and Handling Stress
  • Team Working and Patient Safety

 
Do you need to complete parts of the curriculum on your e-portfolio which you do not cover in day-to-day practice? If so why not try some of our free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

You can sign in to the elearning with your login supplied by elfh at the beginning of your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/.

Perinatal Mental Health Competency Framework

Posted on: November 8th, 2018 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England (HEE) has worked with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust to develop a skills based competency framework for all staff working to support mothers and families across the perinatal care pathway, from preconception to postnatal care.

The framework is designed to increase awareness of perinatal mental health disorders and associated care skills while supporting advanced and specialist practice. Competencies are the skills, knowledge and behaviours that deliver high quality care and enable the continuous improvement of services. The framework has been developed to standardise competencies for perinatal mental health practice across England, thus helping to ensure the workforce is confident and suitably skilled to identify need and deliver care to women who have mental health problems during the perinatal period. This will thereby increase access to appropriate evidence-based specialist treatment.

This framework lists several competencies over separate domains and is divided into categories for different types of healthcare worker; including those who have limited or infrequent contact as well as those who work in specialist perinatal services. Over time, this competency framework may be used for recruitment, training and development, and discussions about career progression.

For more information about the framework, including access details visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/perinatal-mental-health/.

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