Key Messages and links to 21^st December 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Messages from our Chief Executive’s Office
• COVID-19 latest updates
• Overview of HEE education and training news
• An update from your regional office

Weekly messages from HEE:

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.

Biggest week in NHS history – workforce matters

Seasons Greetings – things I didn’t know about HEE

HEE COVID-19 LATEST UPDATES:

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees. This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance.

COVID-19 Vaccination Delivery

Colleagues across Health Education England, NHS England and NHS Improvement and other partners have made amazing strides in just a few weeks supporting the health and care system to roll out the COVID-19 vaccination programme.

So, when Damian Rowland, a consultant paediatrician at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, tweeted about his daughter’s idea about how we deliver all the COVID-19 vaccine, our vaccination workforce workstream got straight in touch with Santa to ensure Bella got a personal response courtesy of the comms team and Head Elf (and workstream lead) Mark Radford.Coronavirus elearning programme

The HEE elearning for healthcare (elfh) Coronavirus elearning has now seen more than 3 million session launches since it was launched in March 2020.

New resources have recently been added to the programme for returning doctors and clinicians supporting the COVID-19 111 service:

Returning Doctors in Primary Care

Returning clinicians

COVID-19 vaccination elearning programme

The elfh vaccination elearning programme is being widely used by the health and care workforce supporting the COVID-19 vaccination roll out.

The elfh vaccination programme consists of a core knowledge session and a vaccine-specific session with accompanying assessment sessions for each. More vaccine-specific sessions will be added as and when more COVID-19 vaccines become available and authorised for supply in the UK.

To date, more than 46,000 doctors, nurses and other professionals have completed the additional training needed to join the vaccination effort, with many more expected to follow over the coming days.

Since the resources went live earlier this month, over 57,000 clinicians, including over 18,000 nurses and midwives, have clocked up more than 133,000 hours of learning online.

For more information about the elfh COVID-19 vaccination programme please visit the elfh website.

Healthcare Learners’ Coronavirus Advice Guide

The Healthcare Learners Coronavirus Advice Guide aims to serve as an aid to healthcare learners to provide them with useful hints, tips and advice to use during the current COVID-19 pandemic and to protect against other infections. The advice given in this document has been collated from questions posed to HEE and experiences shared by healthcare learners working on the front line

HEE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CORE PRIORITY UPDATES –

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Strong performance in medical specialty training fill rates

Figures released by Health Education England in December show good fill rates across most specialties this year including in Core Psychiatry, Paedatrics, Pallative Medicine, Gastroenterology and Haemotology which have all achieved a 100% fill rate.

They also show that applications for medical specialty training for next year are up 35% compared to this year.

This news follows November’s announcement of the highest ever number of GPs entering training with 3,793 posts accepted, exceeding the mandated target of 3,250.

Record rise in nursing students

Record numbers of nursing students have been accepted onto university courses following a concerted recruitment campaign by Health Education England and NHS England and Improvement.

Figures released today by UCAS, the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, show the number of nursing applicants winning places at English universities in 2020 rose by 25.9 per cent compared with 2019, up from 23,630 to 29,740.

The number of successful mature applicants aged 35 and over rose by 43.6 per cent compared with the previous year, while the number of male students winning places was up by 36 per cent in 2020 compared with 8.5 per cent in 2019.

Placements for 18-year-old school leavers rose by 25 per cent.

Overall, there were steep increases for every age group in the number of students winning nursing places, with a clear trend towards older applicants attaining places.

Ambassadors fly the flag for nursing associate roles

40 Nursing Associates and Trainee Nursing Associates from across the country have volunteered to support Health Education England to promote, raise awareness and improve understanding of the Nursing Associate (NA) role.

The Ambassadors will share their stories, knowledge and experiences through social media, at regional and national events and across other channels. They will be part of HEE’s Trainee Nursing Associate and Nursing Associate (TNA/NA) Ambassador scheme and support the ambition to grow the Nursing Associate workforce.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

Enhancing the future doctor workforce

Health Education England has been building upon the findings of the Future Doctor engagement programme to embed ‘generalism’ within medical education.

HEE working with stakeholder partners are developing a wraparound professional development offer to enhance current specialty training. Proposals to enhance generalism are being developed regionally and will complement current training, across the first five years of Postgraduate Medical Education.

The aim is to embed generalist skills early in training to support future doctors to deliver high quality care and meet the ever-changing complex demands of the health and care landscape.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

elearning for healthcare launches hit 20 million for 2020

Health Education England’s elearning for Healthcare (HEE elfh) Hub has passed the milestone of 20 million content launches so far this year.  Over the last 14 years there have been 50 million session launches on the elfh Hub with 20 million of those being in just the last 12 months.

The health and care workforce have engaged with elearning and the growth in usage of elfh resources indicates there is great demand for a blended approach to learning across the health and care workforce.

HEE elfh, which is part of the Technology Enhanced Learning team, supports patient care by developing elearning resources to educate and train the health and care workforce. Currently more than 400 elearning programmes are available, or being developed, in collaboration with organisations including Royal Colleges, Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement and Public Health England.

HEE elfh’s programmes cover subjects from audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, electronic fetal monitoring to end of life care, primary care to prescribing, safeguarding children to statutory and mandatory training.

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

Professional development team sessions have been refreshed within the Educator Training Resource Programme

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with the Professional Development Team at HEE London and South East (LaSE) to review existing elearning sessions, aimed at educators and supervisors of doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists, allied health professionals and healthcare scientists.

All 20 sessions have been revised and reflect current policy updates and procedures.  These modules are linked to the Professional Development Framework for Educators.

The Professional Development Team (LaSE) elearning sessions are part of the Educator Training Resource Programme, accessible via the Educator Hub.

If you would like to know more about the programme, including how to access the elearning sessions, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/educator-hub/.

The Professional development team elearning programme is also available to the health and care workforce via AICC and the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

New HCSW2020 Accelerated Care Certificate elearning programme now available

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, Indeed and Skills for Care to develop the HCSW2020 Accelerated Care Certificate elearning programme.

To meet the needs of staff as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the HCSW2020 (Health Care Support Worker) recruitment programme has been established. This aims to accelerate HCSW supply and reduce vacancies across mental health, acute care, community, primary care, midwifery, learning disabilities, and children and young people services.

This elearning will support the induction of HCSWs and uses a mix of existing elfh resources and practical competency-based learning. Due to the demands of the pandemic, the Care Certificate will be accelerated to deliver an induction programme and training for colleagues. This model of delivery will not affect the high quality of the Care Certificate.

For more information about the elearning programme and to access the sessions, please visit the HCSW2020 Accelerated Care Certificate elearning programme page.

Care Certificate shortlisted for HSJ Award

The Care Certificate elearning programme has been shortlisted for a HSJ Partnership Award 2021 in the Best Educational Programme for the NHS category.

The next round of judging takes place in February with winners announced in June 2021.

New sessions added to Intensive Care Medicine elearning programme

Health Education England elearning for healthcare has worked with the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine to develop 6 sessions for the Intensive Care Medicine elearning programme.

The sessions take approximately 20 to 30 minutes to complete and comprise the following topics:

• Care of the Collapsed Pregnant Patient
• General Aspects of Obstetric Critical Care
• Decision-making Surrounding Escalation of Treatment
• Introduction to Intensive Care Medicine
• Long-term Outcomes of Critical Illness.

There is also a specific COVID-19 session on decision-making surrounding escalation of critical care which is available in the Coronavirus elearning programme.

The elearning for Intensive Care Medicine (e-ICM) programme provides 9 modules of resources (elearning sessions, links to open access review articles, guidelines and multiple-choice questions) covering the syllabus for training in intensive care medicine.

While the resources will be particularly useful for trainees undertaking training in intensive care medicine, they will also be of interest to anyone caring for critically ill patients.

To access the sessions, please visit the Intensive Care Medicine programme page.

Further information about the project is also available via the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine website.

New Telephone Assessment for Colorectal STT elearning now available

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has developed a new elearning programme on the Telephone Assessment for Colorectal Straight-to-test pathway (STT).

The NHS England Rapid cancer diagnostic and assessment pathways guidance features nurse-led assessment as a core element of the colorectal cancer STT pathway. This assessment can be carried out via a telephone consultation and the elearning prepares nurses to undertake this role.

The training is suitable for experienced colorectal nurses or endoscopists who will be undertaking telephone assessment for colorectal cancer STT pathways as part of their clinical role.

To complete the course, learners need to complete both the above modules and undertake observed triaged phone calls which will be approved by a supervisor from their own department. This elearning course includes downloadable guidance for learners and departments as well as documentation for learners to record their progress.

More information, including access details, is available on the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine.

 New Pharmacy in Primary Care elearning programme now available

Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) have worked in partnership with Health Education England’s London and South East Pharmacy Team to develop a new, free elearning programme to support pre-registration pharmacists in training.

The Pharmacy in Primary Care elearning modules have been designed for hospital-based pre-registration pharmacists to aid in their learning of the Community Pharmacy contract and provision of unscheduled care in the community. A final module in development will introduce trainees to the role of the General Practice (GP) Pharmacist.

The Pharmacy in Primary Care modules are available to the health and care workforce via the elearning for healthcare Hub.

You can learn more about the elearning on the Pharmacy in Primary Care programme page.

We are making sure all professions have the digital skills they need to make a difference:

Connected Communities discovery report published

The Digital Readiness Team have published the findings of a short user research (discovery) piece to rapidly understand the needs of health informatics professionals (bodies, groups and individuals) and how best to engage with them and understand their participation and involvement in networks, in order to improve professional and service development in the future.

Read the Connected communities for supporting informatics professionals report to learn about the 5 themes emerging from our research and see recommendations for how we better support our health and care informatics networks and communities.

NHS Digital Academy inclusive recruitment surveys

The NHS Digital Academy team are seeking to understand the views of previous applicants to Cohorts 1, 2 and 3, on the application process, whether they were successful or not in gaining a place. They would also like to hear from those who have never applied, to better understand why this might be.

By completing one of these surveys, you will be supporting the development of what aims to be a more inclusive and transparent process that will attract, educate, and empower future digital health leaders, with additional information available to support potential candidates.

The Digital Readiness Team on Twitter

To keep up to date with the latest news on our work uplifting digital skills, knowledge, understanding and awareness across the health and care workforce follow @HEE_DigiReady on Twitter.

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 9^th December 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Messages from our Chief Executive’s Office
• COVID-19 latest updates
• Overview of HEE education and training news

Weekly messages from HEE:

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.

During such a challenging economic time, we welcome continued investment in the NHS workforce

An immense national endeavour

HEE COVID-19 LATEST UPDATES:

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees. This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance.

COVID-19 Vaccination Delivery

HEE is continuing to support the national COVID-19 vaccination programme. Our Chief Nurse, Professor Mark Radford, is leading on workforce for the vaccination national rollout.

Our Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team has worked with Public Health England to provide learning resources for healthcare professionals to administer the vaccine on the elearning for healthcare Hub. The training package has been completed by over 16,000 clinical professionals have completed the additional training needed to join the vaccination effort, with thousands more expected to follow over the coming days. We have also worked with NHS Test and Trace to produce a self-swab instruction video. The instructional film is hosted on the Learning Hub and supported by written instructions. To date the film has been viewed over 275,000 times.

Healthcare Learners’ Coronavirus Advice Guide

The Healthcare Learners Coronavirus Advice Guide aims to serve as an aid to healthcare learners to provide them with useful hints, tips and advice to use during the current COVID-19 pandemic and to protect against other infections. The advice given in this document has been collated from questions posed to HEE and experiences shared by healthcare learners working on the front line

HEE TRAINING AND EDUCATION CORE PRIORITY UPDATES –

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update

We continue to encourage all eligible pharmacists to sign up for the Interim Foundation Programme (IFPP). This is especially relevant now that the GPhC registration assessment dates have been published. Clarity over the assessment dates will allow provisional pharmacists to plan their revision and their foundation learning with employers.

The IFPP is designed to support provisional pharmacists bridge the transition from pre-registration training to independent practice. This includes access to high quality learning and revision content including events, and access to educational supervision support for those in employment.

On 4 December, we delivered the first IFPP learning event: Using human factors to support clinical decision making in partnership with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. We also encourage provisional pharmacists and their education supervisors to book on new online sessions with the RPS this month, to learn more about how to use the E-portfolio to support development through the IFPP.

It’s not too late to sign up for the IFPP. Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme and find out more on the IFPP website.

The programme team is sending regular updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

ARCP Webinar

A webinar on ARCPs (Annual Review of Competency Progression) is being held for doctors in training on Wednesday 16 December. The webinar will provide feedback on the ARCP experience survey undertaken during the first wave of the pandemic, an update on latest guidance and processes and live Q&As.

New NHS Education Funding Guide (2020/21)

HEE has now published its first national NHS Education Funding Guide, covering the current (2020/21) financial year.

The Guide describes HEE’s funding offers to learners, educational institutions, employers and placement providers in support of the education and training of professional roles. It supports HEE’s drive to increase transparency and understanding of the funding that flows into the educational environment to support the development of the future NHS workforce. Systems/placement providers/employers can reference the Guide in discussions about where education and training funding flows within their own local systems, and as a tool to support considerations of how this money can be maximised to support learners/trainees and the learning environment.

You can view the Guide here. A new version of the Guide will be prepared to detail the funding offer for the 2021/22 financial year. If you have any questions or comments to consider for the next version, please send them through to educationfunding@hee.nhs.uk

A national library discovery service for the NHS in England: Health Education England (HEE) partners with EBSCO Information Services

HEE is committed to enabling all NHS staff and learners to freely access library and knowledge services, so that they can use the best available knowledge and evidence to deliver excellent healthcare. We can now announce that HEE will be working with EBSCO Information Services to provide a national gateway to high-quality knowledge resources and the trusted expertise of local library and knowledge services staff. Using EBSCO’s Discovery Service™ (EDS) customisable solution, NHS staff and learners will get fast, easy access to the information they need.
After a thorough competitive tendering process, work starts now with a view to launch in early autumn 2021 https://lnkd.in/dAfFR5s

Discover the HEE Star

Our The national Workforce Transformation team has just released their new animation explaining the #HEEStar journey to faster, more effective NHS workforce redesign giving a more accessible and concise description of the innovative model.

COVID-19 response in England: the role of HEE funded BMJ Best Practice for NHS staff

During the first wave of the pandemic, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust had to make changes to how it managed clinical practice, to create capacity to take in patients with COVID-19. For some of the trust’s medical staff, this also included moving to respiratory care and the new COVID-19 wards. However, as medical staff of all grades and students prepared to meet this challenge, they needed education and support to help them in their new roles. HEE’s Library and Knowledge Services have had a direct impact using the team’s expertise and using BMJ Best Practice to support their frontline colleagues during the pandemic and beyond.

HEE Star training success leads to a further, system-based roll out

Following the successful delivery of training in the HEE Star to those with expertise across the AHSN Network, a further offer has now been developed for colleagues leading workforce redesign in local health and care systems.

In We Are the NHS: People Plan 2020/21, HEE committed to training up to 50% of STP/ICS workforce leads in the Star methodology. Between November this year and March 2021, 126 nominated delegates from systems across the country will be trained in the established methodology, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to lead a structured approach to workforce redesign at local provider and system level.

In addition to this, an optional ‘train the trainer’ programme is in development and will be available as a further module for attendees, allowing spread of the learning within organisations and across systems.

In the meantime, organisations can contact their regional HEE Workforce Transformation teams for support and guidance.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

elearning sessions support paramedics caring for mother and baby

HEE elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) worked with the College of Paramedics to develop ten bite-sized sessions to develop paramedics’ knowledge of childbirth, maternal emergencies and care of newborn babies.

Written and edited by paramedic-midwife, Aimee Yarrington, each session in the maternity and newborn care for paramedics’ module was designed to build confidence and competence in experienced paramedics, students and assistant practitioners when caring for mother and baby in a wide range of scenarios such as normal birth, breech birth, peripartum haemorrhage and newborn life support.

The module covers the following topics:

• Ante-partum haemorrhage
• Birth
• Breech birth
• Care of the newborn
• Cord prolapse
• Maternal resuscitation
• Newborn life support
• Post-partum haemorrhage
• Pregnancy induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia
• Shoulder dystocia

Each interactive session can be accessed on a variety of mobile devices and lasts approximately 20 minutes.

To register for this elearning module or for more information, please visit the elfh website.

Newborn Hearing Screening Programme updated

HEE elfh has worked with Public Health England to update the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme (NHSP).

The newborn hearing screening test helps to identify babies who have permanent hearing loss as early as possible. This means that parents can get the advice and support they need as soon as possible after birth.

The new screening sessions within the elearning are:

Unit 1 – Introduction to the NHSP and informed choice

Unit 2 – The ear and hearing

Unit 3 – The NHSP care pathway and quality assurance

Unit 4 – The screening tests

Unit 5 – Screening outcomes

Unit 6 – The NHSP national IT system (S4H) and screening equipment

Unit 7 – NHSP knowledge update

For more information about the elearning programme and to access the sessions, please visit the NHS screening programme page.

Delivering sensory health services elearning programme now live

HEE has worked in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement to create an interactive elearning resource to help healthcare professionals deliver sensory health checks to children and young people with learning disabilities and autism.

The Delivering sensory health services elearning programme is designed to support dentists and their teams, eye care specialists (including opticians and optometrists, and supporting staff) and audiologists who carry out these sensory health checks.

Some children and young people with learning disabilities and autism can have difficulties understanding, receiving, and responding to information and may experience sensory processing difficulties.  People with these issues may have an adverse reaction to anything that under or overstimulates their senses, such as light, sound, touch, taste, or smell. This can affect their behaviour and ability to interact with other people making it more difficult for them to access health checks.

The programme outlines:

• What to consider when communicating with children and young people and their families in these schools or colleges
• How to work with other professionals to help support whilst in situ and provide this support
• To help prepare beforehand in order to understand how a particular school or college works.
• Specific topics on autism and behaviours that can be a challenge and what sensory impairment means to the patient.
• How to reduce/avoid this sensory overload whilst caring for the individual.

The resource may also be useful for other health and care professionals working in these settings for the first time.

Other organisations who supported the development of the resource include:  The National Association of Special Schools, Challenging Behaviour Foundation, Seeability, University College London and University College Hospital.

Access the Delivering sensory health services programme.

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 12^th November 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Weekly messages from the Chief Executive’s Office
• Overview of HEE education and training news
• An update from your regional office

Weekly messages from HEE:

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.

Our need to increase representation of BAME senior leaders at HEE is clear in our workforce profiling

Despite COVID, we recognise that we must continue to deliver manifesto and mandated priorities

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance 

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees.

This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance. Please note that this guidance will be updated weekly, on a Thursday morning. It is not the intention to send on email every week so please continue to check the page for updates.

One career endless opportunities #Choose GP

Applications for Round 1 2021 GP specialty training open on the 2 November – 1 December 2020. Please ‘like’ and follow the #Choose GP Facebook page to keep up to date with news and views and please forward this information to any doctors who may be thinking about career options. Find out more about the GP National Recruitment Office (GPNRO). We also have a number of GPs and trainees who are able to help with local or general enquiries – Please email Daryl Barrett at gprecruitment@hee.nhs.uk to be put in touch.

Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme to support GP trainees

The Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme (TERS) is an initiative that will offer a one-off payment of £20,000 to GP Specialty Trainees committed to working in a select number of training locations in England that either have a past history of under-recruitment or are in under-doctored or deprived areas. HEE, in partnership with NHSE/I, has agreed to provide 500 places across England for 2021/22, the largest number of places offered so far under the scheme. Find out more about the Targeted Enhanced Recruitment Scheme on our website.

Speciality recruitment webinar

A webinar was held on 21 October on the changes to specialty recruitment this year. Almost 3,000 trainees joined the webinar and we received in excess of 230 questions on the night.

The webinar recording is now available on the specialty training website along with answers to questions received on the night and individual specialty recruitment plans.

New blended training programme 

HEE and the Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have worked together to create the first blended training programme for occupational therapists in perinatal mental health. 

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update

The Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme launched this autumn to support pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. This programme will also help to accelerate pharmacist early years’ education and training reform, in line with the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.

A key challenge for provisional pharmacists is to balance adapting to their new role in the workplace alongside preparing for the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration assessment. The programme has therefore been designed to ensure that most of the learning happens in the workplace while providing a host of online resources, to help participants balance their personal development with their work commitments.

We are determined to give provisional pharmacists access to quality, evidence-based information as part of the IFPP. All participants are given access to OpenAthens, the SCRIPT elearning programme for Foundation Pharmacists and a library of resources on the NHS Learning Hub.

Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme and find out more on the IFPP website.

The programme team is sending weekly updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

New NHS Education Contract – moving towards implementation

Through the summer, HEE ran an engagement exercise to seek the views and advice of partners to help with the development of the new NHS Education Contract. This concluded in September and we have now entered into a new ‘Implementation phase’, leading up to the introduction of the new contract for 1 April 2021. To help with implementation, a new ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ document has been added to the HEE website to address the most common questions you may have about the new contract. This will be reviewed regularly, and if you have a question that is not answered in this document then please email it to educationcontract@hee.nhs.uk for a response.

New national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training have come into force.

The new national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training took effect on 1 November and apply to all new starters from August 2020. Working closely with the BMA and other stakeholders, the policy aims to bring a single, consistent approach to relocation and expenses payments. This policy will replace the existing 13 individual funding arrangements that currently exist across the country. Find out more about the new national arrangements for the payment of relocation and expenses for doctors in training.

HEE National Education and Training Survey

The HEE National Education and Training Survey (NETS) runs from 3 – 30 November with a new strapline – Let’s talk – and we need your help promoting it to healthcare trainees and students. Find out more about the National Education and Training Survey.

HEE Star training success leads to a further, system-based roll out

Following the successful delivery of training in the HEE Star to those with relevant expertise across the AHSN Network, a further training offer has now been developed for colleagues leading workforce redesign in local health and care systems.

In We Are the NHS: People Plan 2020/21, HEE committed to training up to 50% of STP/ICS workforce leads in the Star methodology; a workforce redesign process developed to systematically address the numerous and varied workforce challenges facing providers.

Between November this year and March 2021, 126 nominated delegates from systems across the country will be trained in the established Star methodology, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to lead a structured approach to workforce redesign at local Provider and system level.  

In addition to this, an optional ‘train the trainer’ programme is in development and will be available as a further module for attendees, allowing spread of the learning within organisations and across systems.

Attendance is being coordinated at system-level with the support of HEE regional transformation leads, to ensure all systems have the opportunity to benefit from the training and are able to prioritise representatives to attend.

Engagement with the offer has been overwhelming, with almost 200 nominations for training received to date and requests for additional training places going forward.  All cohorts originally scheduled for this year are now fully reserved with over 70% of systems already registered. In response to this fantastic level of interest, 72 extra training places will be added to meet demand between December 2020 and June 2020, with a commitment to schedule additional cohorts if required – helping to build the collective capacity and expertise alongside AHSN colleagues, to go further and faster to meet the workforce redesign challenge. In the meantime, organisations can contact their regional HEE Workforce Transformation teams for support and guidance.

New framework to strengthen mental health support services 

HEE has published new guidance to help expand and boost the quality of mental health support services. The new competence framework aims to strengthen training and help drive recruitment and diversity within the mental health peer support workforce, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and People Plan.

Genomics 101: Understand the role of genomics in healthcare 

The use of genomics within healthcare is expanding, moving out of specialist areas and into routine care through the introduction of the Genomic Medicine Service in England (GMS). As a result, more healthcare professionals and their patients will encounter it than ever before.

The Genomics Education Programme has launched a collection of nine introductory courses as part of its Genomics 101 series, which aims to provide an overview of the fundamentals of genomics and its applications in healthcare. Created for those with little or no previous knowledge of the subject, each course focuses on a key aspect of genomics and its use in healthcare.

All nine Genomics 101 courses last 30-40 minutes each, are available through the elfh platform and are free to access for NHS staff and those within universities in the UK. A certificate of participation is available on completion of each course.

Please share far and wide especially across primary care networks as they would benefit the most from these courses.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

New elearning on Perinatal Post-mortem Consent

HEE elfh has worked with University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust and Keele University to develop a new elearning resource to support health professionals who are required to discuss perinatal post-mortem consent with bereaved families.

Losing a baby is a most difficult time for parents and it can be challenging for health professionals to support parents adequately at this time of intense grief. Health professionals may find discussing a post-mortem with families particularly difficult.

This elearning programme aims to improve the knowledge and confidence of health professionals speaking to parents which will enable parents to make a well-informed decision.

All content within this elearning module has been mapped against the learning outcomes stipulated by the Human Tissue Authority and Sands for perinatal post-mortem consent training.

Upon completion of the elearning package professionals who will be obtaining perinatal post-mortem consent will:

• Understand the law and legal requirements in England and Wales
• Understand the benefits, both present and future, for the bereaved family of having a post-mortem investigation
• Be proficient with the process of taking consent for a hospital post-mortem
• Explain what happens at a post-mortem examination and the options available to parents
• Understand the importance of sensitive communication skills.

Visit the Perinatal Post-mortem Consent programme page for more information about the programme, including access details.

elearning programme to support the transition of families from neonatal units to home

The Institute of Health Visiting and Tiny Lives Trust have worked in partnership with HEE elfh to develop a new elearning session for health visitors working with families to transition from neonatal units to home.

The elearning session aims to raise awareness of the health visitor’s role in supporting sick and preterm babies. It is intended to complement existing elearning for healthcare training programmes, which are referred to during the session.

The resource was coproduced in partnership with parents of babies who have been on neonatal units.

For more information about the resources, including access details, please visit the elfh website.

Learning Hub – Microsoft Teams guidance for remote teaching

The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce.  Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.

Colleagues across health and care have been uploading resources.  There are now over 700 resources available for the health and care workforce to access and share with colleagues.

As a result of the pandemic there has been a closure of physical learning spaces and the difficulty to conduct face to face teaching saw a need arise to provide the NHS workforce with a more flexible and blended approach to education now and in the future.  Health Education England (HEE) has contributed a suite of training resources to the Learning Hub on the adoption of Microsoft Teams to deliver effective collaborative working and online training delivery during the pandemic and beyond.

The Learning Hub is a platform that enables rapid dissemination and widens reach across the health and care sector, increasing adoption of useful learning resources.

Take a look:

Using Microsoft Teams for remote teaching and virtual classrooms.  This resource includes a Microsoft Quick Start Guide and other resources to get started.

Training resources for trainers using Microsoft Teams to deliver remote teaching days.

Contributing a resource is a really easy process and only takes a few minutes.  The resource can then be shared with and accessed by thousands of colleagues working across the sector.

If you have a resource to share, contribute it by logging in to the Learning Hub.  You can sign into the Learning Hub either using your existing elearning for healthcare or NHS OpenAthens username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.

If you would like further information about uploading content, please contact the Learning Hub team.

For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 2^nd November 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Weekly messages from the Chief Executive’s Office
• Overview of HEE education and training news
• An update from your regional office

Weekly messages from HEE:

Read recent messages from Dr Navina Evans, Chief Executive, HEE.

There is a future beyond COVID-19 and we have to be ready for it

Listening and learning

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

 HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance 

We have created a COVID-19 update webpage for October 2020 onwards. It will provide guidance and information from HEE, which applies to all students and trainees.

This webpage also includes HEE COVID-19 Surge Guidance. Please note that this guidance will be updated weekly, on a Thursday morning. It is not the intention to send on email every week so please continue to check the page for updates.

One career endless opportunities #Choose GP

Applications for Round 1 2021 GP specialty training open on the 2 November – 1 December 2020. Please ‘like’ and follow the #Choose GP Facebook page to keep up to date with news and views and please forward this information to any doctors who may be thinking about career options. Find out more about the GP National Recruitment Office (GPNRO). We also have a number of GPs and trainees who are able to help with local or general enquiries – Please email Daryl Barrett at gprecruitment@hee.nhs.uk to be put in touch.

Dr You campaign launch

Health Education England has launched a new campaign to raise the aspirations of young people to consider becoming a doctor. Resources include videos and other information and provide a useful guide for young people.

Resources include videos of doctors from different backgrounds reflecting on how they got into a medical career, and information aimed at the students themselves, their families, and teachers. Take a look at the Dr You campaign

HEE appoints four influential nurse leaders

Health Education England (HEE) is delighted to announce the appointments of four regional Heads of Nursing and Midwifery, they are:

• Carol Love-Mecrow who will head of the Nursing and Midwifery team in the Midlands
• Christian Brailsford who will lead the Nursing and Midwifery team in the South West
• Professor Laura Serrant who will lead the Nursing and Midwifery team in the North East and Yorkshire
• Nichole McIntosh who will head the Nursing and Midwifery team in London.

Working closely with HEE’s Chief Nurse, Mark Radford they will play a key role in the development of Nursing and Midwifery policy for this priority area and work to support the Government ambition to recruit 50,000 nurses.

A further step toward an alternative route into nursing 

Health Education England’s (HEE) Blended Learning Nursing Degree, an innovative national programme to train nurses of the future, has moved to the next stage.

Using a mix of technologies to study with important practice experience, this degree will provide opportunities to more people who have the right aptitude and values but need to study flexibly, pursue a career in nursing.

At a collaborative event last week/month [25/9/2020] a partnership of seven universities, HEE and others discussed the next steps to delivery of the programme, while beginning to build a network for knowledge sharing and best practice.

Universities are working towards the first students starting their courses from early 2021.  HEE Blended Learning

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update

We are really encouraged by the number of provisional registrants that have signed up to the Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme (IFPP) at this stage, and new registrations continue to roll in. The IFPP is a new HEE-funded education and training programme, designed to support the 2019/20 cohort of pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme also provides a unique opportunity to accelerate pharmacist early years’ education and training reform and supports delivery of the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.

HEE-funded resources are being developed and shared, to prepare all eligible participants for their regulatory assessment in the first quarter of 2021 and to support their professional development. The IFPP library of resources is now live on the NHS Learning Hub, while access to NHS OpenAthens has been secured for all participants. This library is available to all, irrespective of their employment status

We are also providing free access to the RPS Provisional Registrations Service Support Line. This is a dedicated support line for provisionally registered pharmacists, staffed by the RPS professional support team.

Another key benefit of the IFPP is access to education supervision for those who do not have access to established foundation training programmes through their employer.

More information including FAQs and the registration form are published on the IFPP website.

Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme.

The programme team is sending weekly updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.

HEE Annual Report

The HEE annual report is now published and so we can look back at some of our key success of the last year. It has been an unprecedented time in the NHS in the last few months due to the impact of COVID-19 on services, the workforce and of course patients. HEE’s people played their role by helping over 30,000 students and trainees offer their services to the front line. We have worked in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement, the Department of Health and Social Care, HEIs, employers and professional regulators to support the system when it needed it most. We also provided global education through our HEE-elearning for healthcare Covid-19 programme, free of charge. 

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

Students on placement – ‘essential worker’ status and access to COVID tests

The DHSC has updated its guidance to make it explicit that students on placement should be regarded as essential workers and be given the same priority access to COVID tests as other healthcare workers. This guidance may help if a student needs a test and there are issues gaining access to one.

Funding through COVID – recap

At the outbreak of the pandemic, HEE committed to continuing to provide its education and training payments irrespective of how that education and training is delivered.

From 1 September (and 1 August in some cases), we went back to making payments based on the volume and type of activity that is undertaken. Activity driven payments are now, and will continue to be, HEE’s default funding approach as we continue to support providers through the pandemic response.

For full information about the financial arrangements, please visit the Funding section of the HEE website.

National Education and Training Survey (NETS)

The HEE National Education and Training Survey (NETS) 2020 runs throughout November (3rd-30th). This is the only national survey open to all healthcare trainees and students across all clinical learning environments The NETS gathers opinions from students about their time in clinical placements, asking them to provide feedback on what worked well and what they think could be improved. Survey results offer universities, colleges, healthcare placement providers and HEE further insight into the quality of the clinical learning environment.

This year, as students may be undertaking clinical placements during pandemic surges, the survey provides an additional opportunity to understand their experience and any impact on the quality of training. Please help by promoting this to students and trainees – Complete the survey (Opens 3 November)

Step into the NHS competition winners

A 10-year-old girl from Devon has been named national winner in HEE’s annual contest designed to help primary school children learn about roles in the NHS. Lucy Stephenson used her creativity to create an inspiring song about some of the jobs within the NHS and scooped top prize. Find out more about Lucy’s Step into the NHS competition win.

Meanwhile in the competition for Secondary schools, Four pupils from The Belvedere Academy, Liverpool, have been named national winners in the contest designed to help young people consider a career in the NHS after creating a fun and informative video to showcase the role of an NHS innovation consultant. Find out more about the Step into the NHS secondary school competition winners.

Quality Strategy Refresh

During November HEE will be hosting several stakeholder workshop sessions to explore the key areas our Quality strategy and framework need to cover and to hear from you, our partners, about your own work in this space.

Our aim is to work collaboratively to ensure our approach to education and training is truly multi-professional, to engage as widely as possible, and ultimately, to co-create a Quality strategy and framework that supports high quality education and training in the learning environment.

Please let us know which virtual session you would like to attend by completing this short form.

New competence framework for mental health peer support workers

Health Education England has published new guidance to help expand and boost the quality of mental health support services. The new competence framework aims to strengthen training and help drive recruitment and diversity within the mental health peer support workforce, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan and People Plan.

Library and Knowledge specialist give health professionals the gift of time

Health professionals are being given an invaluable gift of time a report to and All-Party Parliamentary Group learned this week/month [Mon 2 Nov 2020] with the publication of a report clearly outlining the true value NHS Library and Knowledge Services.

Librarians and knowledge specialists make the gathering of information as easy as possible for healthcare professionals, relieving the burden of sourcing and synthesising evidence while enabling NHS organisations to meet their statutory obligations to get evidence into practice across the service.

Health Education England (HEE) commissioned the report Library and Knowledge Services Value Proposition: The Gift of Time. 

Looking to build your knowledge of genomics in healthcare?

The Genomics Education Programme has a limited number of funded Master’s-level CPPD courses and qualifications in genomics available through their partner universities. Open to all NHS employees in England, funding is available for courses that commence before 31st March 2021.You can find out more about the modules available, funding options and how to apply on the Genomics Education Programme website.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

Care Certificate sessions re-designed to support mobile phone users

HEE elfh has worked with Care Certificate leads in Health Education England and Skills for Care to ensure the Care Certificate elearning sessions are easy to access on a mobile phone. The re-design was initiated by feedback from learners and educational leads and reflects the different ways our users are now accessing learning.

The Care Certificate programme is a set of core standards that health and social care support workers adhere to during their daily working life.

The elearning programme underpins the theoretical learning for each standard, and there are also scenarios which support its completion in a wide range of care settings.

Designed with the unregistered workforce in mind, the Care Certificate was developed to provide standardised, structured learning at the beginning of a career in care.   This aims to ensure that care workers have the same introduction to fundamental skills, knowledge and behaviours to support the provision of compassionate, safe, quality care to the individuals in their care.

The re-designed sessions include the same learning objectives and content as the previous versions and are suitable for learners accessing the resource on a desktop, laptop and tablet as well as on a mobile phone.

More information about the Care Certificate elearning programme is available here.

SCRIPT – supporting safer prescribing practices in primary and secondary care settings

The SCRIPT elearning programme provides portfolios of modules specifically for healthcare professionals working in primary and secondary care settings.

The European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT) Working Group on education reviewed different types of digital learning used to teach rational prescribing and assessed their effect on learner-related and clinically relevant outcomes.

The EACPT working group concluded that: “elearning is the most-used type of digital learning for safe and effective prescribing education and is efficacious in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate prescribers the required knowledge, skills, and attitudes.”

SCRIPT modules cover a range of topics relating to prescribing, therapeutics and medicines safety and are categorised into different themes. Modules are suitable for any prescriber or anybody in training to be a prescriber, for example. foundation trainees, undergraduate medical students, doctors and non-medical prescribers.

Themes include:

• Principles of prescribing
• Prescribing in medical emergencies
• Prescribing in special circumstances
• Therapeutic groups

Each module takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. All course materials have been authored by a team of expert healthcare professionals and are regularly reviewed and updated.

What are the benefits in using the SCRIPT elearning programmes?

• Safer prescribing
  SCRIPT enhances knowledge and confidence in prescribing correctly, improving patient safety, therapeutics and medicines management.
• Professional development
  Certificates are made available on completion of a module, which can be used for online learning portfolios as evidence of continuing professional development.
• Flexible learning
  SCRIPT is easily accessible and intuitive to use, allowing users to complete modules at their convenience and refer back to modules at any time.
• Free to learners with an NHS.uk or NHS.net email address.

How do I access the elearning?

You can access the SCRIPT elearning programmes by visiting the SCRIPT website.

Updates to the Foundation elearning programme

HEE elfh has worked with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to update three sessions within the Foundation elearning programme.

The Foundation elearning programme is a free elearning resource for Foundation doctors.

All sessions are mapped directly to the 2016 Foundation Curriculum and the material is approved by UKFPO.

The following sessions have recently been updated:

• An Underperforming Colleague – What To Do
• Audit
• Mental Health Act
• Psychotic Disorders
• Stress – Bullying

For more information about the programme, including access details, visit the Foundation programme page.

New elearning programme will help physiotherapists treat patients with respiratory problems including COVID-19

HEE elfh has worked in partnership with the University of Southampton, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust to develop a free Respiratory Physiotherapy elearning programme to support physiotherapists treating patients with respiratory conditions, including COVID-19.

The sessions are designed to support existing and newly qualified physiotherapists who want to update their respiratory knowledge and skills to help prepare them for working in daily and emergency out of hours respiratory care.

The programme includes an introduction to respiratory assessment and the clinical reasoning process, plus more detailed modules about auscultation, chest x-rays and arterial blood gas analysis, which play a significant part in assessment and help to analyse a patient’s respiratory problems.

Further topics covered are:

• Oxygen therapy
• Humidification
• Manual techniques
• Active Cycle of Breathing Technique (ACBT)
• Incentive spirometry
• Suction
• Tracheostomies
• Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing (IPPB)
• Mechanical insufflation: exsufflation MI:E cough assist
• Non-invasive ventilation.

There is also a paediatric module which covers the differences in anatomy and physiology when assessing and treating an infant.

For more information about the programme, including details on how to access, please visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/respiratory-physiotherapy/.

elearning programme available to support health and care colleagues in identifying and responding to child sexual exploitation

HEE elfh worked in partnership with Brook, the leading young person’s sexual health and wellbeing charity, to update existing elearning resources designed to support educators, health and care professionals and community workers in identifying victims of child sexual exploitation (CSE).

The CSE elearning programme aims to build the skills and confidence required by educators, health and care professionals and community workers to identify child victims of exploitation, respond to disclosures and take action if they suspect a young person is at risk.

elearning modules within the programme include:

• Module 1: What is CSE?
• Module 2: Spotting the signs
• Module 3: Safeguarding young people.

On average, each CSE elearning module takes 15 minutes to complete, delivered in interactive formats.  You can also test your knowledge at the end of a module and gain access to a resource bank to support you in your work.

Learn more about the Child Sexual Exploitation elearning programme.

The Child Sexual Exploitation Programme is also available to the health and care workforce via AICC and the Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

Learning Hub – mental health resources recently contributed

The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.

Colleagues across health and care have been uploading resources.  There are now over 700 resources available for the health and care workforce to access and share with colleagues.

Health Education England’s mental health team has recently contributed a suite of resources to the Learning Hub including:

New Roles in Mental Health resources, products and tools

Multi professional approved clinician implementation pack

Good practice in new workforce roles

Transforming mental health social work

Contributing a resource is a really easy process and only takes a few minutes. The resource can then be shared with and accessed by thousands of colleagues working across the sector.

If you have a resource to share, contribute it by logging in to the Learning Hub.  You can sign into the Learning Hub either using your existing elearning for healthcare or NHS OpenAthens username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.

If you would like further information about uploading content, please contact the Learning Hub team.

For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.

Feedback sought on Coronavirus programme

HEE elearning for healthcare has created ten surveys to gather feedback from users on its Coronavirus elearning programme.  The programme launched in March 2020 and is freely available to all colleagues working in the NHS, independent sector and social care. The surveys are aimed at all health and care professionals and take just five minutes to complete:

• Allied Health Professionals:
• Diagnostic Radiographers
• Doctors
• Final Year Medical Students
• Midwifery Staff
• Nurses
• Pharmacy Staff
• Return to Practice
• Support Workers
• Volunteers

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 14th October 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.

Weekly messages from HEE:

Dr Navina Evans joined HEE in October as our Chief Executive. Read Navina’s first stakeholder message – HEE Chief Executive

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Specialty recruitment webinar

A webinar is being held for doctors in training on Wednesday 21 October at 7pm to outline new guidance and timelines for specialty recruitment. The webinar will be hosted by Prof. Sheona MacLeod, Deputy Medical Director – Education Reform, Prof. Adrian Brooke, Deputy Medical Director – Workforce Alignment and National Speciality Recruitment Manager Clare Wright. Here’s the link to the webinar

Questions can be asked during the webinar through Slido, using event code #specialtywebinar

One career endless opportunities #Choose GP

Applications for Round 1 2021 GP specialty training open on the 2 November – 1 December 2020. Please ‘like’ and follow the #Choose GP Facebook page to keep up to date with news and views and please forward this information to any doctors who may be thinking about career options. Find out more about the GP National Recruitment Office (GPNRO). We also have a number of GPs and trainees who are able to help with local or general enquiries – Please email Daryl Barrett at gprecruitment@hee.nhs.uk to be put in touch.

Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme update

More resources are being added to the Interim Foundation Pharmacist Programme (IFPP). This is a new HEE-funded education and training programme, designed to support the 2019/20 cohort of pre-registration pharmacists whose training and registration have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The programme also provides a unique opportunity to accelerate pharmacist early years’ education and training reform and supports delivery of the NHS People Plan for 2020/21.

HEE is providing free access to the new RPS Provisional Registrations Service Support Line. This is a dedicated support line for provisionally registered pharmacists, staffed by the RPS professional support team.

There is more good news for provisionally registered pharmacists working in primary care and Health in Justice in England. As established foundation training programmes are not available through employers in primary care or Health in Justice, HEE is funding CPPE to provide a structured foundation training programme as part of the IFPP. This is to ensure that this group of pharmacists are not disadvantaged in their learning.

Please encourage provisionally registered pharmacists to register for the programme. More information including FAQs and the registration form are published on the IFPP website.

The programme team is sending weekly updates about the IFPP. We encourage you to subscribe to these updates by emailing fpp@hee.nhs.uk, stating ‘IFPP Updates’ in the subject header.

Widening Participation – Call for Evidence

An NHS workforce which is representative of the communities it serves is a workforce that understands those communities and is better placed to meet their needs. The NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS Interim People Plan have both recognised that more needs to be done to encourage people from the widest possible range of backgrounds to take up careers in health and care and to offer them satisfying and developing careers in the NHS.

Health Education England is aware that many examples of innovative work exist which are attracting people from underrepresented groups and communities to widen access and participation to take up study which will lead to a career in the NHS. In order to expand these approaches nationally we would like to hear what evaluation activity different organisations (Universities) have done to address access and participation issues to ensure  everyone regardless of  background feel they have the option to take up undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education and a career in the NHS is open to them.

We would be grateful if you could visit our website and fill in the form. If you have any queries around this piece of work please do not hesitate to contact us on policyandregulation@hee.nhs.uk.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

Students on placement – ‘essential worker’ status and access to COVID tests

The DHSC has updated its guidance to make it explicit that students on placement should be regarded as essential workers and be given the same priority access to COVID tests as other healthcare workers. This guidance may help if a student needs a test and there are issues gaining access to one.

Health Education England and the AHSN Network join forces to help support system partners in delivering innovation and transformation for the NHS workforce

An enterprising new partnership between Health Education England (HEE) and the AHSN Network is developing at pace. After successful discussions, HEE and the AHSN Network have agreed to share expertise and work together across several common priorities at national and regional level.

The AHSNs bring proven expertise in supporting and facilitating the spread and adoption of evidenced innovation across healthcare pathways, as well as their well-established, place-based relationships across the country.

HEE brings a greater awareness of the national strategic growth plan for workforce transformation enshrined in We Are the NHS: People Plan 2020/21, sharing a range of proven methodologies, tools and enabling programmes along with its own, regionally-based knowledge and expertise and the already well established partnerships in relation to digital readiness.

One of the first areas of partnership will be the usage of the Star methodology – HEE’s model for workforce transformation. AHSN colleagues, having been trained in the methodology will then use the model to help system partners better understand and explore the workforce challenges implicit in embedding innovations within their pathway transformation work.

Other common priority areas being pursued by the partnership for delivery to the system include Digital Readiness, Patient Safety, Technology Enhanced Learning and Genomics.

Learn about whole genome sequencing in healthcare

Whole genome sequencing has been in use behind the scenes for some time, but now it is becoming part of routine care with the introduction of the NHS Genomic Medicine Service. But when should it be used? How does it work? And what are the implications, both in healthcare and for families?

Join the Genomics Education Programme’s free, flexible online course on 2 November to learn from expert scientists, medics and researchers, as well as patients and families, how valuable this revolutionary test can be in a number of areas – most recently in the current fight against COVID-19.

The course is delivered through a range of articles, videos, animations and discussion forums facilitated by experts. Prior to enrolling on the course, join our Twitterchat on 22 October to find out why now is the time to learn about whole genome sequencing.

For more course info or to sign up, please visit the FutureLearn website.

Freedom to Speak Up Guardians

Freedom to Speak Up is about encouraging a positive culture where people feel they can speak up and their voices will be heard, and their suggestions acted upon. This animated film can be used in NHS Trust inductions, to inform new starters about how their local Freedom to Speak Up Guardian – an alternative route to normal channels for speaking up such as via line managers – can support them. Link to animation: Freedom to Speak Up

Better health through improved heath literacy

Providing reliable, easy-to-understand health information in accessible formats helps people make better decisions about their health. Being armed with greater knowledge can also have a huge impact on how people respond to treatment, recover from illness and manage a long-term condition while giving people the confidence to ask questions without feeling uncomfortable.

HEE’s national Library and Knowledge Services work with local NHS library and knowledge specialists to help them to share their expertise. Working with NHS Scotland, HEE has devised a free, online course for all to use on elearning for Healthcare  and throughout Health Literacy Month we are also supporting the year’s theme of Health Literacy Heroes.

HEE National Website Platform

HEE’s new digital service will replace the multiple website management systems across HEE with a single platform for all HEE websites, including national, regional, local and programme – similar to gov.uk. HEE continues to seek engagement with internal and external users and stakeholders.  Please get involved; register your interest, have your say, participate in user research and testing activities, and attend show and tell events.   Further, be an advocate, please share this information with people in your network who might want to get involved.  For more information or questions, please email parah.orakpo@hee.nhs.uk.

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

The Learning Hub – Did you know …

The Learning Hub is a digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of education and training resources for the health and care workforce. Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.

Did you know…

• It only takes a few minutes to contribute a resource to the Learning Hub that has the potential to be shared right across the health and care workforce? Select “Contribute a new resource” and populate the form with details including the resource title, type, description and author details.  Once contributed you can share the resource with health and care colleagues via social media or via a direct web link to the resource.

Did you know…

• The allowed file size for uploaded resources has increased to 2GB? This means much larger audio and video files can be contributed to the Learning Hub.

Did you know…

• You can sort and order search results on the Learning Hub? The resources can be sorted by relevance, alphabetically, by date authored or by rating.

Come and take a look at what the Learning Hub has to offer and how this could support your organisation in sharing and accessing learning resources. If you would like further information about uploading content please email: enquiries@learninghub.nhs.uk.

For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL and visit the Learning Hub website to read about our journey so far.

SCRIPT – supporting safer prescribing practices by healthcare professionals

The SCRIPT programme was created in 2010 and developed into a collection of innovative elearning portfolios designed to encourage safe and effective prescribing and medicines management among healthcare professionals.

SCRIPT was developed by the University of Birmingham and OCB Media and commissioned by Health Education England.

Each elearning portfolio has been specifically designed for foundation doctors, foundation dentists, paediatric specialist trainees, nurses, general practitioners, pharmacists and other non-medical prescribers. The portfolios are also available to undergraduate medical, pharmacy and nursing students.

SCRIPT elearning modules cover a wide range of therapeutic topics. A module usually takes approximately 1 hour to complete and does not have to be completed in one sitting. Content has been authored by a team of expert healthcare professionals and is reviewed and updated on a regular basis.

You can learn more about the SCRIPT elearning programme by visiting the SCRIPT website.

Updates to Statutory and Mandatory Training Programme

HEE elfh is currently undertaking an annual review of the Statutory and Mandatory elearning sessions.

The following sessions, and their associated assessments, have been updated:

• Conflict Resolution – Level 1
• Equality, Diversity & Human Rights
• Infection Prevention and Control – Level 1
• Infection Prevention and Control – Level 2
• Resuscitation – Level 1
• Resuscitation Adults – Level 2
• Resuscitation Newborn – Level 2
• Resuscitation Paediatric – Level 2

This year’s review has focused upon the following:

• Ensuring that the sessions are fully aligned to the Core Skills Training Framework (UK v1.6) following a reviewing by the Skills for Health team.
• Updating assessment questions using data from a thorough analysis of the effectiveness of the questions.
• Updating with any further recommendations from a team of subject matter experts and in response to user feedback.

We intend to complete all updates by the end of October 2020.

More information about the Statutory and Mandatory Training programme can be found on the elfh Hub.

We are supporting digital readiness across the workforce:

Dr Navina Evans – what a new era of digital leadership could mean for the provider sector

HEE’s new Chief Executive Navina Evans has written a blog on what the future holds for digital transformation and its role in health and social care. Read it on the NHS Providers website.

NHS Graduate Digital Data & Technology scheme webinar – register today

Are you looking for high-quality candidates to fill crucial digital, data and technology roles within your trust? The NHS Graduate Digital, Data and Technology scheme, commissioned by Health Education England as part of its Digital Readiness programme, is a highly focused development pathway supporting graduates to become the next NHS middle managers and beyond.

The Health Innovation Network’s Graduates into Health team are hosting monthly webinars for NHS managers to learn more about the scheme and the programme’s bespoke ‘grow your own talent’ model. The next session is 29 October, 08:00 – 09:00 and you can register for the event here.

Join the Digital Readiness Team at the free HETT: Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit – 20-22 October

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven seismic shifts in transformation across the entire health and social care ecosystem. In association with the Digital Academy Alumni, Topol Fellows and Clinical Entrepreneurs, and supported by NHS England, Health Education England and NHSX, the HETT virtual summit ushers in a new era in which leaders of innovation are resetting their long term plans to address the needs of this new digital landscape.

Hear from an exciting line-up of Digital champions, leaders, and innovators, including author of the Topol Review Eric Topol MD, HEE’s Director of Innovation and Transformation Patrick Mitchell, HEE’s Chief Information Officer James Freed, NHS Digital Academy workstream lead Aasha Cowey, HEE/NHSX Chief Social Worker Mark Nicholas, and many more…

With 18+ hours of CPD-certified keynotes, panel discussions, case-studies, and roundtables on offer it’s FREE to those in the NHS, independent healthcare provision, the care sector, and the wider public sector. Find out more and RSVP.

The Digital Readiness Team on Twitter

To keep up to date with the latest news on our work uplifting digital skills, knowledge, understanding and awareness across the health and care workforce follow @HEE_DigiReady on Twitter.

Further information

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s Covid 19 webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.

Key Messages and links to 2^nd September 2020

Welcome to Health Education England’s weekly stakeholder bulletin.

In this bulletin we will provide:

• Weekly messages from the Chief Executive’s Office
• Overview of HEE education and training news
• An update from your regional office

Weekly messages from Chief Executive, Professor Wendy Reid –

This week’s message focuses on helping young people and clinical professionals to navigate their route through training throughout their careers, and ensuring they have a line of sight of what the pandemic recovery means to them. We are determined to make career paths for them all. Read Wendy’s messages here:

Young people matter to us and we need to help them

Don’t let data take humanity from your leadership

We are supporting all professions to rapidly grow to meet the needs of patients by:

Funding Boost for Clinical Placements – In August, Health Education England announced that £15m will be made available through its Clinical Placement Expansion Programme (CPEP) to increase clinical placements in the NHS and support growth in Nursing, Midwifery, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy and all the other Allied Health Professions.

This represents a 50% increase in the funding previously pledged.

The funding will be broken down as follows:

• £8.2m towards an additional 7,000 nursing and midwifery clinical placements across all regions and
• £5.8m towards an additional 3,800 allied health profession placements concentrating on the prioritised areas such as placement education facilitators with a further £1m of that investment focused on sustainable technologies.

This additional investment has been targeted to support the welcome expansion across all health professions undergraduate programmes this September.

The Department of Health and Social Care is also providing additional funding to support the lifting of the cap for medicine and dentistry courses. Read more here.

New Development Opportunity for Community Pharmacists – New continuing professional development (CPD) for pharmacists, coordinated by Health Education England (HEE) with NHS England and NHS Improvement, will further embed community pharmacy in urgent care pathways and help improve the care of patients presenting with minor illness.

A programme of workshops is being delivered to support community pharmacists in effective patient-facing consultations and clinical assessments for a range of common minor illnesses.

The CPD is being delivered in partnership with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE).  Workshops will be rolled out across England from September 2020.

Funded by the Pharmacy Integration Fund, the workshops build on those provided since last October by CPPE to help pharmacists manage patients referred from General Practice and NHS 111 to the Community Pharmacist Consultation Service (CPCS). Read more here.

We are ensuring core HEE work to support our NHS colleagues continues:

New NHS Education Contract – share your views – From April 2021, Health Education England will be introducing a new NHS Education Contract to replace the varying contractual arrangements currently in place (including the Learning and Development Agreement with NHS service providers).

We believe a single standard NHS education contract, to be used by all education providers and healthcare providers in all settings, will help achieve a nationally consistent approach to HEE contracting and funding for healthcare education and training.

To help develop this new standard contract, HEE is seeking the advice of partners, especially those who use the Learning Development Agreement or may use the new NHS Education Contract in the future. This includes healthcare providers (both NHS and PIVO), education providers (Higher and Further Education), as well as Medical Schools, Dental Schools, ICSs, Training Hubs and any other body who may now or in the future receive funding from HEE for education and training.

To do this, we have created a five-question national feedback survey to receive feedback and we are inviting all HEE stakeholders to review the draft contact and complete the survey. The draft contract and the survey can be accessed here: https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/new-nhs-education-contract

The survey will remain open until 20 September 2020. If you have questions about the survey or the wider project, please email commissioning@hee.nhs.uk

Applications invited for new HEE fellowships to help NHS staff shape the digital healthcare revolution – Health Education England is pleased to invite candidates for 30 new digital health fellowships aimed at helping clinical professionals build digital health expertise into their careers.

Successful applicants will receive equivalent funding up to 40% of their salary to give them protected time to engage in digital initiatives.

This second cohort of the Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships follows recommendations in the 2019 Topol Review to ensure that the NHS leads the world in using innovative technology to benefit patients. Recruitment for this round opens on September 1 and runs until September 30.

Successful applicants will be given time and support to design and deliver digital health projects and initiatives within their employing trusts. They will have access to a programme of workshops enabling them to lead digital health transformations for NHS staff and patients.

Applications are open to a wide range of NHS staff and candidates may be in training or in a permanent position. Current fellowship projects include a broad and exciting variety of initiatives designed to improve patient care and maximise NHS resources.

Full details about the programme and how to apply are available at: https://topol.hee.nhs.uk/digital-fellowships/

Have your say on the revised ARCP process – As the ARCP period draws to a close, we are encouraging trainees who have undertaken an ARCP to complete a short survey to help us understand experiences of the revised process during COVID-19 and the quality of information and resources provided. Feedback is vital to HEE’s Lessons Learned process, and will inform what we continue, what we discontinue, and where improvements can be made to the ARCP process going forward. The survey closes on 9 September. Have your say here

Dental trainee redeployment experiences during COVID-19 – 176 Dental trainees were redeployed across the system during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some have been frontline, some providing support in other ways. All have embraced health care sector positions that have allowed transferable skills to be utilised where there was need – providing care for patients and support for colleagues in roles such as: Family Liaison Officers at the Nightingale Hospital, COVID and non COVID wards in secondary care, supporting ICU teams, Primary Care Triple A and Urgent Dental Care services, National 111 triage, Contact Track and Trace and swabbing services to name but a few. In these short films dental trainees share their experiences of taking on these challenges and how they have gained valuable knowledge for the future.

Situational Judgement Tests from 2020 – Medical students / graduates sitting the Situational Judgement Test (SJT) in December 2020 and January 2021 will be accessing the SJT via a digital platform. A computer based SJT will be introduced as part of the application process for the UK Foundation Programme from 2021. An animation film has been developed which outlines what the SJT is, the options available for sitting the SJT and processes that need to be followed. For more information visit https://foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/

We are making sure all professions have the training they need to make a difference:

The Learning Hub – a quick reminder

What is the Learning Hub? – The Learning Hub is a new digital platform that provides easy access to a wide range of resources that are pertinent to education and training in health and care. Organisations and users can contribute and share resources for those in health and care to access.

What can the Learning Hub offer you? – As the Learning Hub is being designed based on users’ needs and developed using an agile, iterative approach new features are frequently being released in line with the original plan for the Learning Hub in its current Beta phase. This agile approach means users have access to and experience the benefits of new features as quickly as possible to provide a comprehensive learning experience.

Learning Hub users can:

• contribute digital resources including elearning, video, audio, images, web links, documents and articles
• search for, access and rate a resource
• report an inappropriate resource
• access the resources and share them on social media and with colleagues.

Make a contribution – If you or your organisation have resources to share and contribute to the platform please visit: https://learninghub.nhs.uk and select “Contribute a resource”.  You can sign in to the Learning Hub either using your elearning for healthcare Hub username and password or by creating an account on the Learning Hub and using those details.

Coming soon – The Learning Hub team is currently working on the development of catalogues, which will enable organisations to have their own area on the Learning Hub; offering a home page with branding capability and a place for resources to be made available under an organisation’s own identity. The first release of catalogues will be available soon and enhanced with more functionality over time in line with the Learning Hub roadmap.

Take a look – Come and take a look at what the Learning Hub has to offer and how this could support your organisation in sharing learning resources: https://learninghub.nhs.uk.

For more information about the Learning Hub follow us on Twitter: @HEE_TEL, visit: telblog.hee.nhs.uk to read blogs about our journey so far or visit: www.hee.nhs.uk/tel.

New sessions for pharmacists available within the Educator Training Resource Programme – Health Education England elearning for healthcare (HEE elfh) has worked with the HEE London and South East Pharmacy Team (working across London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex) to develop four new elearning sessions, aimed at developing the knowledge and skills pharmacy educators require for supervising, assessing and evaluating pharmacy students in a variety of primary and secondary care settings.  Although primarily aimed for educators, the modules are also suitable for trainees on pharmacy programmes.

The elearning sessions include:

• Introduction to supervised learning events (SLE)
• Mini clinical evaluation exercise (MiniCEX)
• Care based discussion (CBD)
• Direct observation of practical skills (DOPS)

Each elearning session takes approximately 30 minutes to complete and includes videos and multiple-choice questions to test your knowledge.  You may choose to dip in and out of the sessions when it is convenient to you.

These sessions complement the existing resources for pharmacy educators, which include:

• MRCF (Medicines Related Consultation Framework)
• Multi-Source Feedback (MSF) (Mini-TAB)
• RITA (Record of In-service Training Assessment)

The new elearning sessions for pharmacists are part of the Educator Training Resource Programme, accessible via the Educator Hub and the ‘Enhancing Learning Through Assessment’ module.

If you would like to know more about the programme, including how to access the elearning sessions, visit: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/educator-hub/.

New Adverse Childhood Experiences programme now available – Health Education England elearning for healthcare has added a new elearning module on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to its MindEd programme.

This module is designed to deliver key knowledge and skills development for teachers and other professionals in schools. The three case study sessions are skills focussed and video rich, with blended learning support for workshop-based skills development. There are also information-packed knowledge sessions as a primer.

The three sessions cover:

• The science behind ACEs
• Building resilience for children affected by ACEs
• General classroom management.

The sessions are freely available to access. A further three sessions will be added later in 2020.

MindEd is a free educational resource for mental health.  The variety of free resources aims to provide adults, across professions and organisations and including parents and carers, with the knowledge to support wellbeing, the understanding to identify young and older people at risk of a mental health condition and the confidence to act on their concern and, if needed, signpost to services that can help.

For more information about MindEd visit: https://www.minded.org.uk/.

ESCAPE-pain – using education and exercise to support people with chronic joint pain – HEE elfh has worked with ESCAPE-pain and the Health Innovation Network to develop two elearning resources, aimed at helping healthcare professionals and exercise instructors understand the principles behind the ESCAPE-pain programme – facilitating group education and exercise sessions for people living with chronic joint pain and learning how the programme may be implemented in their organisation.

There are two ESCAPE-pain programmes designed to support people living with chronic knee and hip pain, and people living with chronic back pain.

The elearning resources are aimed at:

• helping interested providers determine how ESCAPE-pain may fit within their organisation and to begin the process towards implementation.
• professionals who plan to deliver the programme and become ESCAPE-pain facilitators.

Each elearning session takes approximately 20-30 minutes to complete, with the aim of improving providers’ understanding of what the programme involves and to prepare for the facilitator training.

If you would like to know more about the programme, including access details to the elearning sessions, please email the team at: hello@escape-pain.org for more information.

We are supporting digital readiness across the workforce:

Health Education England’s Connected Communities project would like your help! Research on career pathways in health and care informatics, undertaken by the Digital Readiness programme in 2019, recommended that further work was needed on defining what networking opportunities professional body’s and other organisations currently offer.

HEE are seeking to rapidly understand the needs of health informatics professionals (bodies, groups and individuals) and how best to engage with them. We’d like to understand more about your participation and involvement in networks to help improve professional and service development in the future. To share your views please complete this survey.

Regional Informatics Skills Development Networks (ISDNs) – Extending to new regions – The flourishing ISDNs in the North West and Yorkshire & Humber provide a wide range of learning, networking, sharing and accreditation resources to support informatics specialists and departments across those regions. Drawing on their expertise, we are jointly producing a toolkit, called ‘ISDN in a Box’, which will contain the basic resources to help the establishment of similar ISDNs in other regions.

HEE will also provide tailored practical support such as limited initial funding for an in-region LSD coordinator and work closely with organisations such as the Faculty of Clinical Informatics and the Federation for Informatics Professionals to develop the professional landscape. We are initially targeting regions where there is an existing strong CIO/CCIO network or Finance SDN, and working with the NHSE Regional Directors, regional digital teams, Academic Health Science Networks and CSUs.

For more information please contact  digitalreadiness@hee.nhs.uk.

FURTHER INFORMATION

By following @NHS_HealthEdEng you can keep up to date with new information and resources as they are published. Most importantly are the notifications of webinars being broadcast during the week.

Right now, making sure we are communicating properly is obviously incredibly important. If there’s any information you think is missing on HEE’s webpages, please let us know by submitting your question to the HEE Q&A helpdesk.