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Staying safe from suicide: Best practice guidance elearning launched

Posted on: September 10th, 2025 by Vanessa Bassnett No Comments

NHS England’s Staying Safe from Suicide: Best practice guidance e-learning session is now available for all mental health practitioners across the country.

This e-learning session is designed to complement our Staying Safe from Suicide Guidance, launched in April 2025.  The e-learning session will support all mental health practitioners to provide consistent, high-quality approaches to suicide risk assessment and management across the entire mental health sector.

This evidence-based training is grounded in NICE 2022 guidance and aligns with the Government’s 5-year Cross Sector National Suicide Prevention Strategy.

The e-learning session is specifically designed for mental health practitioners working in the NHS as well as in private, voluntary, and charity care settings.  Registering and signing up to complete the e-learning is simple and is available to all colleagues.

The session provides practical, evidence-based guidance on how to approach and support people to stay safe from suicide. It features case study-based exercises that allow practitioners to develop their knowledge and apply the guidance in real-world scenarios. The training covers the key principles of the Staying Safe from Suicide guidance launched earlier this year, and explains the evidence behind the approach, and provides clear implementation strategies.

Participants will learn how to deliver the guidance effectively in their daily work and service delivery, regardless of their specific role or setting.

We would recommend including this e-learning session in your safety assessment / safety planning and suicide prevention training in your organisation.

Putting care first: Transforming statutory and mandatory training

Posted on: March 6th, 2025 by Emma Harper No Comments

We’re transforming how the NHS approaches statutory and mandatory training to create a better experience for everyone. Our ambition is to make training simpler, smarter and more streamlined across the entire NHS.

This is part of our wider programme to optimise, rationalise and redesign statutory and mandatory training to:

  • make moving between NHS roles smoother
  • reduce repeated training requirements
  • cut down on duplicate form filling
  • streamline employment checks
  • enable greater workforce mobility across the NHS

As part of the optimise phase of this programme we are launching improved versions of the elearning sessions.

The following five statutory and mandatory sessions have been reviewed and updated with newly appointed NHSE National Subject Matter Experts (SMEs).

  • Data security awareness
  • Equality, diversity and human rights
  • Fire safety
  • Safeguarding adults level 1
  • Safeguarding adults level 2

The NHSE National SMEs have:

  • checked sessions are aligned to the current Core Skills Training Framework (England) v1.1
  • included relevant information on latest guidance and NHSE policies
  • reviewed and reduced, where appropriate, the number of assessment questions

The sessions have also all had a refreshed look and feel and have been updated against accessibility guidelines and the NHSE style guide.

The remaining sessions within the Statutory and Mandatory programme will be launched over next few months.

Staff will not be required to redo these sessions, but they will be available for people when they renew their training.

December Foundation Programme Update - Recognising Stress

Posted on: December 6th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

All doctors feel stress at some time in their working lives. How do you recognise it in yourself and/or in your colleagues? What are your options to deal with it?

Available in elearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) – these sessions cover areas in your curriculum on; FPC 4: Communication and Care, FPC 5: Continuity of Care, FPC 6: Sharing the Vision, FPC 7: Fitness to Practise, FPC 8: Upholding Values and FPC 11: Ethics and Law:

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

TEL News October

Posted on: November 7th, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

Our latest edition of TEL News includes an update on new immersive technology case studies, details of the next TEL Network CPD Session, new dates for the Virtual and Hybrid Learning Faculty’s latest masterclasses and many new elearning sessions.

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Supporting GP registration for people experiencing homelessness

Posted on: October 23rd, 2024 by Charlotte Murray No Comments

People experiencing homelessness are known to have unmet health and social care needs, and experience significantly poorer health outcomes than the wider population. To address this, a new training module has been developed to support GP practice staff and compliment the new online GP registration service – to reduce the risk of worsening health inequalities for the homeless population.

This training will help GP staff, particularly receptionists and practice managers, learn skills that can be used to interact with homeless individuals in a trauma-informed manner. It includes comprehensive guidance, including links to documents, websites, and external videos.

Topics include:

  • the types of homelessness
  • inclusion health, what does that mean
  • the roots into homelessness
  • consideration of trauma-informed practice
  • homeless and inclusion health
  • the challenges people may face when accessing and registering with general practice
  • what steps you and your practice could put in place to address these challenges
  • the contractual duty of GPs to ensure that everyone has access to healthcare

All practices are expected to have processes in place to demonstrate (e.g. practice policy, records of refusals) that it has not refused any registration unreasonably, including refusal on the grounds any patient was unable to provide proof of identity or address or any evidence of immigration status.

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

New learning available for carers: Reducing the risk of health deterioration for people with a learning disability

Posted on: August 30th, 2024 by Vanessa Bassnett No Comments

People with a learning disability are often reliant on family and carers to help them manage their needs and support them to access services. They also experience greater health inequalities compared to the general population.

Caring for People with a Learning Disability elearning is available on the NHS Learning Hub, offering support for paid and unpaid carers. This free online training programme aims to reduce preventable causes of ill health for people with learning disabilities. Developed by the West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership in collaboration with NHS England, it comprises four sessions which have been selected as important areas of learning:

  • Constipation – advice and support to manage this common health issue. Carers can also access NHS England’s constipation resources, which aim to support people with a learning disability, their carers and people who work in primary care.
  • Spotting the signs that someone is becoming poorly – Supporting people to understand and inform the right person at the right time when someone with a learning disability is becoming unwell
  • Annual health checks – people with a learning disability from the age of 14 can attend a full, examination to make sure that there are no undiagnosed health issues.
  • Reasonable adjustments – reasonable adjustments are required under the Equality Act to help ensure that people who have a disability get the right support to be able to access health services. This session will help carers to gain a good understanding of what reasonable adjustments are and what you can do to support people to get these put in place.

Find out more and access the elearning for free by visiting Caring for People with a Learning Disability on the NHS Learning Hub.

Mental health assessment: Foundation update (March 2024)

Posted on: March 1st, 2024 by Kieron Bradshaw No Comments

Welcome to your March 2024 update from the Foundation elearning programme.

Mental health assessment is a vital part of all doctors’ professional practice. The sessions highlighted in this month’s update cover assessment and examination, delirium, psychotic disorders, self-harm, depression, and the Mental Health Act.

Sessions:

The sessions cover key areas in your curriculum on:

FPC 1: Clinical Assessment

FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation

FPC 5: Continuity of Care

Notes:

The Foundation elearning programme has been developed specifically for Foundation doctors by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges in partnership with NHS England elearning for healthcare (NHSE elfh), and is approved by the UK Foundation Programme (UKFPO).

The online training has a range of other sessions that might help you. Please log in to the programme page to view more.

You can sign on to the elearning with your login supplied by elearning for healthcare at any time during your foundation training.

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

Refreshed Population Health Management elearning now available

Posted on: December 6th, 2023 by Louise Garrahan No Comments

The Introduction to Population Health Management (PHM) elearning programme has been significantly reviewed and updated to further upskill health and care professionals in the approach.

The reviewed content, developed with NHS England and wider partners, covers topics including how to get started on PHM, core capabilities, intelligence tools and practical examples.

PHM uses linked data and continuous improvement cycles to understand the needs of local people and communities. It helps predict what is driving poor future outcomes and supports frontline teams with designing and implementing new preventative models to meet local needs.

Additional elearning on related topics such as needs assessment and population segmentation are also available. The modules are all hosted on the Population Health Management section on NHS England’s elearning for healthcare Hub.

A new communications toolkit for colleagues to promote PHM within their own networks is also now available.

New elearning on Safeguarding adult victims of modern slavery, human trafficking & exploitation

Posted on: November 27th, 2023 by Vanessa Bassnett No Comments

NHS safeguarding leads can access new e-learning created to support safe, accurate and strategic leadership and decision-making for suspected cases of modern slavery, human trafficking and exploitation.

Modern Slavery – Human Trafficking (MSHT) has profound implications for the physical, mental, and sexual health of victims both during and after exploitation. Evidence shows that when victims present in healthcare services, healthcare professionals aren’t always equipped to know how best to support them.

Safeguarding leads are required to provide calm, clear and strategic leadership for complex cases and this training will enable them to offer the appropriate support to frontline healthcare professionals.

Module includes:

  • Role and guidance for adult safeguarding leads
  • The Modern Slavery and Exploitation Helpline
  • Following a case
  • Support, summary and resources

Available on NHS Learning Hub

Access it here: www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/safeguarding-adult-victims-of-modern-slavery-human-trafficking-and-exploitation/

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