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Infection prevention and control: community

Posted on: October 9th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

We’ve launched a new infection prevention and control e-learning programme for clinical staff working in the community. We’ve worked in partnership with community NHS providers to create bespoke e-learning for health training for clinical staff that carry out home visits for patients.  

 The module recognises the additional infection control challenges that home visits can present, and identifies the additional risks and precautions needed to ensure the provision of safe, high-quality care. 

 This training applies to several healthcare professionals and community settings, including paediatric, GP, and physiotherapist home visits.  

 The training pilots a new model of delivery – using short videos, followed by questions for users to answer. It follows National Infection Prevention and Control guidelines, and forms part of the existing Infection Prevention Control Level 2 session. Please set aside 30 – 60 minutes to complete the training.

You can now access the new module on the learning hub.

New eLearning for occupational therapists working in perinatal mental health

Posted on: October 3rd, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

Three new sessions of the Perinatal Mental Health for Occupational Therapists eLearning programme have been developed in collaboration with the Royal College of Occupational Therapists and the NHS England E-Learning for health Programme.

The new eLearning sessions are designed to support staff in improving their knowledge and understanding of perinatal mental health to ensure better practice among parent infant practitioners including midwives, health visitors, psychologists, social workers and occupational therapists.

The three new sessions are:

These new sessions were developed by a team of occupational therapists, with valuable input from a midwife and individuals who’ve accessed occupational therapy services. Case studies are based on real life examples and include assessment/intervention plans written by experienced occupational therapists for participants to compare with their own. They build on six existing sessions launched in 2020, covering various aspects of occupational therapy and perinatal mental health.

For more information and to access the programme, please visit the Perinatal Mental Health eLearning programme page.

Improving knowledge in mental health practitioners in the clinical management of long COVID

Posted on: September 19th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

It is estimated that 1 in 5 people with the COVID-19 virus will continue to experience post initial infection and go onto a diagnosis of Long COVID/Post COVID syndrome therefore Long COVID education and training is vital for all healthcare professionals.

A new education session has been developed for mental health nurses and practitioners to cater to their unique working environment and recognise the complex needs of service users. This new session will better equip mental health nurses and practitioners to support those suffering from the impact of Long COVID/Post COVID syndrome and will include an Introduction to Long COVID, Post-COVID Syndrome and Living with Long COVID (complimenting existing Long COVID sessions) in the context of mental health. It will also explore options and interventions available to the mental health nurse and other mental health colleagues in supporting patients and their families.

The training programme has been informed by multiple healthcare professionals including mental health nurses and other mental health practitioners., It aims to improve knowledge in the clinical management of long COVID by providing good quality, accessible and up-to-date training resources, which cover a spectrum of patient needs.

This new session; titled Working with Long Covid in people with severe mental illness, will sit within the existing Post COVID services programme. The session takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and can be completed at your own pace. Find out more details about this new module and the others on the Post Covid Services webpage.

The full range of sessions in the programme are:

  1. Introduction to post COVID care
  2. The first assessment of a patient with suspected post COVID-19 syndrome
  3. The treatable traits approach and differential diagnoses
  4. Post COVID rehabilitation: physical and mental health
  5. Rehabilitation, digital services and discharge
  6. Working as an integrated pathway
  7. Delivering personalised care in post COVID services
  8. Working with Long Covid in people with severe mental illness

 

Maximising Population Health and Prevention in Curricula – Updated toolkit now live

Posted on: September 5th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

The toolkit to maximise population health and prevention in curricula aims to support educators of all regulated health and care professionals, to maximise population health and prevention-learning in their respective curricula has been updated.

First developed in 2018 by Health Education England (now NHS England), the toolkit was updated in 2024 by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit to reflect the post-pandemic landscape and the impact that COVID-19 had on population health and prevention, as commissioned by the NHS England Workforce Training and Education directorate.

The toolkit is a combination of easy-to-use guidance with signposting to reputable learning resources in the field of population health and prevention, and a platform to showcase good practice examples.

Aimed at the educators of healthcare professionals, the seven-step model was developed as a guide to support Health Education Providers to take a holistic approach to maximising population health and prevention in curricula.

You can find out more about the programme on the elfh webpage.

There are also two upcoming launch events, where you can hear from experts in health and education including Prof Shona MacLeod, Director of Education and Training, NHS England, as well as a host of representatives leading the way in this work, who will share best practice and innovation nationally, regionally and locally.

To register your attendance on your preferred date, please follow the appropriate link:

Wednesday 11th September 2024 at 10am-12noon – Click for registration link

Tuesday 17th September 2024 at 12.30pm-2.30pm – Click for registration link

Foundation Programme August Update - Help to review sessions

Posted on: August 14th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

Welcome to your August 2024 update from the Foundation eLearning programme.

Would you be interested in helping to review Foundation Programme sessions? Any Foundation Doctors that take part in reviewing our sessions can enter the review as a publication in their CV. For more information or to register your interest please email the team.

Failure to prescribe safely is one of the commonest causes of untoward patient incidents in medical practice.

There are sessions available in the eLearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) that cover prescribing. These sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 1: Clinical Assessment, FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation, FPC3: Holistic Planning, FPC 4: Communication and Care and FPC 5: Continuity of Care Specific Areas of Core Learning High Risk Prescribing Patient Safety

SLEs are also an essential part of your learning in your two foundation years. Do you know how to get the best out of them? Even if you think you do, you could still get more by doing the SLE sessions now at the start of the year.

Available in the eLearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) – these sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 10: Teaching the teacher and FPC 12: Continuing Professional Development:

Check the programme to see other sessions that might help you.

You can sign on to the eLearning with your login supplied by eLearning for healthcare at any time during your foundation training: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/foundation-programme/

HORUS and TURAS have deep links to eLearning for healthcare sessions from the Foundation Curriculum and therefore accessible to all trainees, making it quicker and easy to access the appropriate session linked to the curriculum.

5000 people enrol on Becoming Simulation Faculty Programme

Posted on: July 24th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

The NHS England TEL team launched Becoming Simulation Faculty (BSF) as a national blended learning programme to support the professional development of simulation educators, practitioners, technicians and managers in health and care.  Over 5000 people have now enrolled since its launch. 

The programme delivers a national approach to simulation faculty development, enhancing professional capabilities and supporting continuing professional development of multi-disciplinary teams.   

Co-designed and authored with experts from across the simulation community in the UK, BSF addresses the current variability in professional development opportunities across the country, ensures equitable access to learning and enhances simulation and immersive learning practices at scale.    

It aligns with the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, the Educator Workforce Strategy and the National Safety Syllabus by supporting hybrid education and workforce development, ensuring high-quality, safe care delivery.   

The programme is running a core course (6 theory-based online elearning topics and a face-to-face workshop) throughout 2024. Topics include Educational Theory in Simulation Based Education (SBE), Creating a Simulated Learning Environment and Debriefing and Feedback. From 2025 the course will be extended to cover advanced learning opportunities such as Simulated Patients and Developing the simulation technician. To date, we have delivered successful workshops in 2 of the 8 regions of England, with several more planned over the coming months. Feedback from recent delegates has been excellent;  

“A really great day and thought provoking, thank you!” 

“The activities were really helpful and very relevant” 

Find out more about the Becoming Simulation Faculty programme and enrol by visiting our webpage or contact the team for more information. 

New sessions available on stopping over-medication of people with a learning disability and autistic people

Posted on: June 19th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

The collection of four new sessions aim to provide a journey through Stopping Over Medication of People with a learning disability and autistic people (STOMP) and how to bring about these improvements in care that are at the heart of programme. They build on the existing, introductory modules 1-6, and focus on challenging inappropriate prescribing and how people can stay well when medication is reduced.

Developed by NHS England’s eLearning for healthcare programme (elfh) and the MindEd platform in collaboration and partnership with NHS England’s STOMP team, the first three sessionsaimed at specialist health and social care professionals, introduce and explain how inappropriate prescribing can be identified and potentially challenged. They focus on how to consider, monitor and evaluate the reduction of medication and how to identify and manage some of the consequences commonly encountered.

The final session is for people with a learning disability or who may be autistic and their family or other carers. It uses a fictional case study to illustrate how to challenge inappropriate prescribing of medication and what alternatives to medication there are so that you can manage your health and stay well:

If you are a person with a learning disability, an autistic person, a family member, support worker or carer, someone with an interest in STOMP or a health or social care professional, there is something for you. Each session will take approximately 30 minutes to complete and will have an introduction outlining who the session is aimed at. Some sessions, written for all, have downloadable easy read PDF versions.

Note that while available widely, this content is written with a UK/England context in mind.

For more information and to access the sessions, please visit the MindEd programme page.

 

New online learning session for schools, colleges and mental health teams about bullying and cyberbullying

Posted on: June 13th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

In this new session learners can find out more about how to integrate whole school and college approaches for bullying and mental health and wellbeing. This includes what this means in practice for young people, families, schools, colleges and local partners. This final module; Collaborating to deal with bullying, builds on the previous three sessions which explore the causes and effects of bullying on children and young people.

Developed by the MindEd programme in NHS England’s eLearning for healthcare programme (elfh) in collaboration and partnership with experts by experience, the four modules provide up-to-date definitions of bullying and cyber bullying and guides the learner through a range of evidence-based interventions to address bullying in a school or college setting.

Each module takes approximately 30minutes to complete and through the use of scenarios and short narrative videos, they provide practical guidance and learning points on how and when to intervene to prevent bullying or cyber bullying.

For more information and to access the modules please visit the programme page.

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