The author of a new MRI safety course, which has been developed in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh), which could prevent injuries and save lives by reducing adverse incidents, is calling for volunteers to take part in a pilot of ‘Managing Patients Undergoing Anaesthesia in the MRI Unit’.

Barbara Nugent, a team leader at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and a project lead for MRI safety at NHS Education for Scotland, has been actively trying to create a global database of MRI adverse events. The evidence compiled supports the need for introducing minimum levels of safety education to the MRI workforce. To satisfy this requirement some of this data has been used to reinforce the need for elearning modules for MRI staff at the frontline of MRI safety: including radiographers, radiologists, physicists and clinical scientists.

Developed in collaboration with Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) programme and with the support of other professional bodies and organisations across the UK (SCoR, BAMRR, MRAG, IPEM (MRSIG), MHRA, BIR, RCR, HFS, AAGBI and ISMRM) the first module of the MRI safety course is now ready to be tested.

Once this first module has been evaluated, it is intended to be one of a suite of online MRI Safety Programme learning modules designed to share fundamental MRI safety knowledge while also developing professional expertise in the areas of:

• MRI safety hazards and risk management
• MRI safety guidelines and legislation
• MRI adverse incident management and reporting

For more information about the MRI Safety elearning session and to evaluate the pilot please click https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/mri-safety.

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has added the elfh Hub and its thousands of elearning sessions to the list of OpenAthens resources to make it easier for certain groups of the health and social care workforce to access elfh’s elearning.

HEE elfh works in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies to support patient care by providing elearning to educate and train the health and social care workforce.

HEE elfh’s programmes cover subjects from audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, electronic fetal monitoring to end of life care, primary care to prescribing, safeguarding children to statutory and mandatory training. All content is nationally quality-assured and available 24/7. The online training sessions enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point.

OpenAthens is a service that allows people to access a series of online resources free of charge with just a single OpenAthens account.

The OpenAthens eligibility criteria, which are managed by NICE, cover anyone working directly with NHS patients and anyone working directly on the development and/or delivery of training materials for either NHS staff or NHS patients within an organisation that provides NHS-commissioned care or commissions care for NHS patients in England. This includes charities, voluntary organisations, local authorities, arm’s length bodies and healthcare students.

For more detailed information on the eligibility criteria please visit: www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/evidence-services/journals-and-databases/openathens/openathens-eligibility

To register for an OpenAthens account please visit: https://openathens.nice.org.uk/ or for more information about accessing elfh resources via OpenAthens visit: http://support.e-lfh.org.uk/get-started/openathens/

The elearning for Health Image Interpretation programme is currently developing Multiple Choice quizzes (MCQs) for specific modules.

Click the following link to access our full publication: Image Interpretation.

To access the elearning programme visit: http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/image-interpretation.

This elearning package is intended for all staff involved in the cost recovery from overseas visitors and migrants. There are modules that are targeted for specific audiences, including Overseas Visitor Managers, frontline staff and clinicians, and the content now includes sessions for those involved in handing financial aspects.

A new learning path designed for use by Overseas Visitor Managers (OVMs) based in Trusts has also been added. Further learning paths for clinicians and administrative staff will be available soon.

A new elearning programme has been developed to help improve the delivery of acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV).

In addition to improving the delivery of acute NIV care the programme, which elfh has developed in partnership with Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network, also aims to reduce mortality and promote patient safety by encouraging better adherence to guidelines. The elearning standardises and improves the competencies of healthcare professionals involved in the provision of acute NIV care by creating new NIV training material and establishing and monitoring its delivery.

The elearning programme also includes a guidance document on practical acute NIV which details the competency assessment for the practical session, a guide to completion of the practical session and case studies and supplementing documentation.

To access the elearning programme visit: http://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/acute-niv/

This four module elearning package is intended for anyone who has contact with people to make every contact count and develop public health knowledge. The package is part of a two phase learning approach and has been developed to ensure learners gain understanding and practical skill.

The elearning can be accessed through the elfh portal for those in the NHS and also on the project website for those from other organisations who are unable to register for elfh.