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Health Literacy

Posted on: March 19th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

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/healthliteracy/.

Health Education England (HEE) has developed a live streaming in Postgraduate Medical Education survey.

Posted on: March 12th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall

Health Education England (HEE) has developed a survey to research the opinions and experiences of doctors in England around the use of live streaming in Postgraduate Medical Education.

You are invited to complete this survey if you:

  • are based in England
  • have completed a medical degree/postgraduate medical qualification
  • have also completed at least one year of postgraduate medical training that qualifies you to hold a licence to practice medicine in the UK.

All doctors are invited to complete the survey whether they have experience of live streaming or not.

The information collected in this survey will be used to support HEE to conduct research and development work in this area.

This survey should take around 15 minutes to complete. The closing date for responses is midnight on Friday 3 April 2020.

The survey can be found here: https://healtheducationyh.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/live-streaming-in-pgme-final.

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?

Posted on: March 12th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall

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.

Dr Mark PhillipsThe 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/.

Embedding public health into clinical services e-learning programme now live

Posted on: March 5th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked in partnership with Public Health England and NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop an elearning programme to help embed public health in clinical services.

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.

This elearning 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 multidisciplinary teams identify their unique contribution to implement quality improvement initiatives to transform services.

The elearning 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.

For more information about the elearning programme, including details on how to access, please visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/embedding-public-health-into-clinical-services/.

Saving Babies' Lives e-learning programme now available

Posted on: March 5th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England has worked with NHS England & NHS Improvement, Public Health England, the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, the Royal College of Midwives and the British Intrapartum Care Society to develop an elearning programme to support maternity staff to implement all five elements of Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle Version 2 (SBLCBv2).

The Saving Babies’ Lives elearning programme consists of the following five short sessions, each one relating to an individual element of SBLCBv2:

  • Very brief advice on smoking for pregnant woman;
  • Detection and surveillance of fetal growth restriction;
  • Reduced fetal movements;
  • Effective continuous fetal monitoring during labour;
  • Reducing preterm birth.The programme is aimed at midwives and obstetricians.For more information about the programme, including details of how to access the elearning sessions, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/saving-babies-lives/

Antimicrobial Stewardship for community pharmacy staff

Posted on: February 26th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England (HEE) has worked in partnership with Public Health England, British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, University of Leeds and University of Nottingham to develop an elearning session for community pharmacy staff on the impact of antimicrobial resistance.

This elearning session will help community pharmacy staff to understand the connection between antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance and identify their role in optimising antibiotic use in the general population who visit their pharmacy.

The resource also includes information on using the Antibiotic Checklist to personalise patient advice when dispensing antibiotics and awareness of the global impact of antibiotic resistance.

The elearning is available to access for free on the HEE elearning for healthcare Hub and will soon also be available on the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

For more information about the elearning session, including details on how to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/antimicrobial-resistance-and-infections/

e-Learning for Healthcare launch their new Chat Bot

Posted on: February 21st, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has recently launched a new Chat Bot to support learners using the elfh Hub.

Over the last few months work behind the scenes has been ongoing to develop the function, including training the Chat Bot to help Hub users on support issues and improve the learner experience across the elfh Hub.

The Chat Bot’s knowledge is built from the content within the support site and learns by reviewing the responses and questions raised to the Chat Bot, and guiding Hub users to either the correct area on the support site or providing direct advice.

For more information about the new Chat Bot visit: https://support.e-lfh.org.uk/more-help/further-support/using-chat-bot/.

Foundation programme – February 2020 update

Posted on: February 19th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Welcome to your February 2020 update about the Foundation elearning programme that has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) and is approved by UKFPO.

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.

The sessions in the elfh Foundation elearning programme:

Professional Capability: 3 Behaves in accordance with ethical and legal requirements; the Mental Health Act protects the rights of vulnerable adults and children; a group of the elearning sessions outline the responsibilities of the people who care for them.

You will find out how the GMC supports your career development, looking at the topics of registration, the Foundation Programme and your career development.

There are sessions which focus on the safeguarding of adults and children in primary and secondary care. Finally, the importance of protecting data is explored in sessions about information security and the Data Protection Act.

Sessions

  • Confidentiality and Privacy
  • Mental Health Act
  • Infection Control: Diarrhoea in an Inpatient
  • Assessing Mental Capacity
  • Planning Ahead Using the MCA
  • Best Interests
  • Restraint
  • HIV Testing
  • DVLA
  • How to Avoid the GMC Disciplinary Committee
  • GMC Registration and Post Graduate Observation
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • 01_02 Blood Transfusion and Consent Scenario
  • 01_03 Mental Capacity Act and Death Certification
  • Completion of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death Part 3
  • Data Security Awareness – Level 1
  • Safeguarding Adults – Level 2
  • Safeguarding Children – Level 1
  • Safeguarding Children – Level 2

 

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/.

 

New e-learning on hypertension now available

Posted on: February 5th, 2020 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England has worked with NHS England & NHS Improvement and Public Health England to develop an elearning programme to address the huge underdiagnosis and inaccurate diagnosis of hypertension.

The Hypertension upskilling programme incorporates up to date guidelines and evidence-based aims to aid front-line primary care colleagues in the diagnosis and management of hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk – including familial, hypercholesterolaemia, artrial fibrillation, dyslipidaemia and other cardiovascular disease related conditions.

The NHS Long Term Plan makes hypertension one of the top three cardiovascular priorities, alongside artrial fibrillation and lipid management. This plan has set a target of, over the next ten years, 80% of the expected prevalence of hypertension should be diagnosed and, of those diagnosed, 80% treated to target as per NICE guidelines.

The programme was funded by Health Education England and developed in partnership with NHS England & NHS Improvement, and Public Health England. It consists of a webinar and a short quiz to test knowledge and understanding of the topic.

For more information about the programme, including details of how to access the elearning sessions, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/hypertension/

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