About the Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services programme

Whilst there has been a growing interest in public health by health and care professionals, and the policy framework is placing increasing priority on prevention, NHS services have traditionally been established to provide specialist treatment rather than prevention.

The shift in focus towards prevention therefore needs system wide leadership, at regional and local levels.

This programme is intended to support leaders and service managers to guide their teams through the process of re-designing services to support prevention.

Designed as a 5-step process, the programme provides a practical toolkit of useful resources to help individuals and their multidisciplinary teams identify their unique contribution and then implement quality improvement initiatives to transform services.  The content is pragmatic and iterative, recognising the competing pressures on front line teams.  The tools and resources highlighted can be useful in more than one stage of the 5-step process and will be inter-dependent with wider improvement initiatives.

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The Embedding Public Health into Paediatric Training Toolkit.
This Toolkit is designed to support paediatric clinicians to enhance their knowledge and skills in the field of Health Promotion and Illness Prevention. Offering advice and highlighting case studies and examples of good practice, the Toolkit has been developed by HEE, in collaboration with RCPCH, for medical paediatric trainees, however it will be of interest to any clinician working within a paediatric setting.

Acknowledgements

• Stuart Palma, Professional Head of Allied Health Professions, NHS Improvement and NHS England
• Helen Christmas, Public Health Specialty Registrar, Public Health England
• Karen Fechter, Quality Improvement Advisor, NHS Improvement and NHS England
• Jamie Waterall, Deputy Chief Nurse, Public Health England

The authors would like to thank the QSIR team, Improvement Capability Building and Delivery Group, NHS England and NHS Improvement for supporting the improvement content and use of resources within the toolkit.

The full comprehensive collection of proven quality, service improvement and redesign tools, theories and techniques can be found at the following link: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quality-service-improvement-and-redesign-qsir-tools/

How to access

In order to access the Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services programme, you will need an elfh account. If you do not have one, then you can register by selecting the Register button below.

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To view the Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services 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.

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NHS healthcare staff in England

The Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services programme is also available to NHS healthcare staff via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). Accessing this elearning via ESR means that your completions will transfer with you throughout your NHS career.

Further details are available here.

Not an NHS organisation?

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.

Registering large numbers of users

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 Embedding Public Health into Clinical Services programme, please contact elfh directly.

Organisations wishing to use their own LMS

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.

More information

Please select the following link for more information on how to use the elfh Hub.