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Doctors in Training Induction Programme: update

Posted on: June 3rd, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Last year Health Education England (HEE) developed and launched a free, national online induction programme for doctors in training. It incorporates key relevant clinical topics which support doctors in training with the additional competences needed as part of their induction to provide high quality patient care.

The content is available as three ‘patient journey’ scenarios and each come with an assessment to confirm competence acquisition. Completing this content in advance allows Trust induction days to focus on welcome, orientation and key local learning; saving time and enhancing the experience. The competencies gained through this online induction package can be ‘passported’ for up to three years as the doctors in training move between Trusts.

The scenarios included in the programme cover the following topics:

  • Scenario one – Blood Transfusion and Consent
  • Scenario two – Safe Prescribing and Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
  • Scenario three – Mental Capacity Act and Death Certification.
  • Each scenario also covers the learning outcomes for Risk Management and Record Keeping, where relevant within the patient scenarios

Between June and December 2018, we conducted an evaluation of the programme via an online questionnaire. In response to the feedback received, we will be undertaking a review of the assessment questions and plan to update them to improve the experience for learners. The updated assessment sections will be available from July 2019.

We have created an infographic to demonstrate the usage of the Doctors in Training Induction Programme. The data breaks down usage by region, device, grade and month. We are encouraged by the usage of the programme, but would like to see even more doctors in training accessing the resource and would be grateful if you would share details about the programme throughout your network.DIT Infographic May 2019

For more information on this programme, that is free for doctors in training to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/doctors-in-training-induction/.

Career Planning for Pre-Registration and Foundation Pharmacists

Posted on: June 3rd, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has developed an elearning course to help Pre-registration and Foundation Pharmacists, in the early stages of their careers, make informed career choices and effective applications for future career steps. This course is the latest in a number of bespoke career planning courses developed for health professionals within the elfh career planning programme.

The course will provide Pre-Registration and Foundation pharmacists with a deeper level of understanding of how to ensure future career planning is informed, realistic and robust. The course is based around five sessions, with the first being a course introduction and the remaining sessions concentrating on the four-stage SCAN career planning model:

  • Self-awareness which includes reflecting on values, work preferences, skills interests, personality and career stressors
  • Career exploration which includes consideration and research of career options available, as well as developing effective networks
  • Arriving at your decision which focuses on decision making types and methods as well as how to check the robustness of career decisions
  • Next Steps which offers advice, information and examples on CV development, job applications and preparing for interviews as well as effective action planning.

For each session, learners have the opportunity to compile a distinctive, thorough personal portfolio of research and reflections contained in a downloadable workbook, which can be used to support job applications and interviews.

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

For more information about the course visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/career-planning-for-healthcare-professionals/.

e-ELCA module in Advance Care Planning updated

Posted on: May 22nd, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The Advanced Care Planning module in e-ELCA has been reviewed and updated as part of the rolling review of materials across the elearning programme. Specialists in Advance Care Planning edited the 19 sessions to ensure the content remains relevant and is up-to-date with the latest standards and guidelines.

The Advanced Care Planning module is aimed at all staff delivering end of life care and covers a broad range of content such as principles of advance care planning, spiritual and cultural considerations, conducting conversations and illness trajectories.

For more information on the e-ELCA programme, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/end-of-life-care/. For social care workers, administrative and clerical staff and volunteers, a public access version of e-ELCA is available here: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/end-of-life-care-for-all-public-access/.

Career Planning e-learning programme for core doctors

Posted on: May 21st, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has developed three bespoke elearning courses to help core medicine, surgery and psychiatry doctors make informed career choices and effective applications for future career steps. These courses are the latest in a number of bespoke career planning courses developed for health professionals within the elearning for healthcare career planning programme.

The courses will provide core medicine, surgery and psychiatry doctors with a deeper level of understanding of how to ensure future career planning is informed, realistic and robust. They are based around the following five sessions:

  • Introduction which provides an overview to the course
  • Self-awareness which includes reflecting on values, work preferences, skills interests, personality and career stressors
  • Career exploration which includes consideration and research of career options available as well as developing effective networks
  • Arriving at your decision which focuses on decision making types and methods as well as how to check the robustness of career decisions
  • Next Steps which offers advice, information and examples on CV development, job applications and preparing for interviews as well as effective action planning

For each session, learners can compile a distinctive, thorough personal portfolio of research and reflections contained in a downloadable workbook, which can be used to support job applications and interviews.

The elearning resource is available on the elfh Hub, the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and via AICC links.

For more information about the programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/career-planning-for-healthcare-professionals/.

e-LfH hits the million mark

Posted on: May 21st, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) programme has reached the significant milestone of one million users on the HEE elfh Hub!

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 care workforce.

All content is nationally quality-assured and available free of charge. HEE elfh programmes are developed for their potential to make maximum impact on the quality of care that users of the Hub deliver, including the entire health and care workforce, teachers, volunteers, local government and public health colleagues

HEE elfh’s programmes provide an “anytime, anywhere” learning opportunity for those working in health and care. All content is created by a team of experts including a clinical lead to ensure the resource is accurately mapped to the relevant curriculum. Many programmes also include an e-assessment option providing learners and trainers with evidence of progress.

There are currently more than 210 elearning programmes being developed and delivered, comprising more than 24,000 elearning sessions. The sessions are delivered in partnership with professional bodies, including Royal Colleges and associations, NHS organisations, charities and other health and care organisations.

The elearning programmes cover subjects from audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, emergency medicine to end of life care, primary care to prescribing, safeguarding children to statutory and mandatory training.

All HEE elfh’s programmes are available via the HEE elfh Hub, with most also being available via the Electronic Staff Record. HEE elfh programmes are also available via OpenAthens meaning that anyone who is entitled to an OpenAthens account can access the content free of charge. Some HEE elfh programmes are also available internationally via eIntegrity.

The HEE elfh Hub records user activity, enabling users to run reports on their learning activity and build a transferable life-long learning portfolio.

Martin Sinclair, Programme Lead, Health Education England elearning for healthcare, said: “We are absolutely delighted to have reached the milestone of one million elearning for healthcare users. This is testament to the high-quality content we produce with our partners that has the potential to make maximum impact on the quality of patient care. Our elearning programmes enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point.

“The breadth of subject matter that is covered within HEE elfh means there really is a programme for everyone who works in health and care.”

For more information about HEE elfh visit https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/.

Foundation e-learning programme update

Posted on: May 10th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The Foundation elearning programme has been developed 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 try some of our free elearning mapped directly to the Foundation Professional Capabilities (Training Outcomes) in the 2016 Foundation Curriculum.

The elfh sessions in Foundation elearning Project – Professional Capability: 7 Works effectively as a team member; the elearning sessions cover working in, and with, teams in different healthcare settings. You will discover how effective teamwork is a determining factor in patient safety and the value of good handover practice and referral. You will think about your role within a multidisciplinary team (MDT). Finally, you will consider team dynamics and how working within and across MDTs can deliver and improve patient services.

Sessions:

  • Team Working and Patient Safety
  • Good Handover Practice
  • Effective Referrals to Other Clinical Teams
  • Primary, Secondary Care Interface
  • Ward and Therapy Services
  • Ward and Social Services
  • Team Dynamics
  • Effective Team Working

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/.

 

e-Dementia e-learning programme updated with new sessions

Posted on: April 10th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has been working with the University of Bradford to review, add new content and update sessions within the e-Dementia elearning Programme.

The programme about dementia care has been designed to enhance the training and education of the health and care workforce. It focuses on the essential knowledge and skills needed to support and enable people living with dementia and their family carers to live as well as possible, wherever they live.

e-Dementia will also be of interest to those responsible for training and educating the health and care workforce. It can be used in a variety of ways including as part of induction; to structure reflective practice with individual staff and teams; for self-paced learning; and to revisit as a form of refresher training.

As part of the e-Dementia update, 14 new sessions have been added and 12 sessions have been retired from the programme.

New sessions added:

Module 1 Dementia awareness

  • Person-centred dementia care

Module 2 Dementia identification, assessment and diagnosis

  • Dementia risk reduction and prevention
  • Communication, interaction and behaviour in dementia care
  • Health and wellbeing in dementia care
  • Pharmacological interventions in dementia care
  • Living well with dementia and promoting independence
  • Families and carers as partners in dementia care
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion in dementia care
  • Law, ethics and safeguarding in dementia care
  • End of life dementia care
  • Research and evidence-based practice in dementia care
  • Leadership in transforming dementia careFor more information about the e-Dementia programme and for details of how to access please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/dementia/.The elearning is also available via the elfh Hub, the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and via AICC links.

Place of Birth e-learning programme now live

Posted on: April 10th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Birmingham, the National Institute of Healthcare Research (NIHR) and the Royal College of Midwives, to develop an elearning programme that focuses on the different place of birth options for healthy, pregnant women who are at low risk of complications.

The programme consists of two elearning sessions to support discussions with healthy, low-risk women about the safety, intervention and transfer rates for the different options for place of birth.

‘Discussing Place of Birth Options with Healthy Low-risk Women’, and ‘Becoming a Place of Birth Lead’ are elearning sessions developed by midwives, for midwives, to support women in their birth place decisions. They are also suitable for others working with pregnant women, such as obstetricians, midwifery support workers and GPs.

The first session aims to ensure that midwives (and other professionals) have the essential knowledge about safety, intervention and transfer rates for different birth place options.

The second session is for midwives who have completed the first session and agreed with their manager to become ‘Place of Birth leads’ in their team, to support their colleagues in improving their place of birth discussions with women.

All the supporting materials for this programme have been written by subject specialists and experts in this field. The elearning programme is available on the elfh Hub, the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and via AICC links.

For more information about the elearning programme visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/place-of-birth/.

Work and Health programme launched

Posted on: April 10th, 2019 by Alex Drinkall No Comments

The new Work and Health elearning programme, developed by Public Health England and Health Education England elearning for healthcare, helps healthcare professionals to recognise the value in talking to patients about work.

The elearning will support them to make brief interventions such as discussing the health benefits of work with patients, talking about return to work and advising on adjustments at work.

Good work is crucial to good health – in fact, unemployment increases the risk of early death by 63%. Healthcare professionals can play a key role in helping patients to improve their health outcomes by remaining in or returning to work.

In recognition of the impact that work can have on our health, the Association of Medical Royal Colleges, the Royal College of Nursing and the Allied Health Professions Federation have published a Health and Work Consensus Statement for Action – this sets out a commitment to support healthcare professionals in supporting this agenda.

For more information about the elearning programme and details of how to access it visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/work-and-health/.

elfh is a NHS England programme in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies