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Welcome to April’s Healthcare Newsletter

In this issue we bring you our prize draw winners, Skills for Health news, radicalisation training and the Patient Safety Congress.

If you would like more information about anything included in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Matthew Dickinson

Matthew.dickinson@virtual-college.co.uk

 
 
Matthew Dickinson

 
 
 

Monthly prize draw winner

 
 
 

Every month we randomly select someone who has completed one of the 12 e-learning courses available in the National Patient Safety Suite.

January’s winner was Gurparkash Bhangu from London North West Healthcare NHS Trust and February’s winner was Emma Grimes from East Cheshire NHS Trust.

All 12 patient safety courses are free to subscribers to the National Patient Safety Suite, click here to find out more.

 
 
prize draw winners

Above is Gurparkash with her new iPad she won for completing a National Patient Safety Suite course.

If your organisation subscribes and you completed a course last month keep an eye out because the next winner could be you!

 
 
 

Safeguarding Children 

safeguarding children refresher

It is a mandatory requirement for anyone who works with children to complete safeguarding training every three years.

Our new online refresher course covers all topics in the Intercollegiate Document 2014 to make sure healthcare professionals are updated without having to repeat previous training… Read more

 
 
 

Parkinson's UK

Omitted and Delayed Medicines

A big thank you to Parkinson’s UK for promoting the ‘Omitted and Delayed Medicines in Hospitals’ course in their Excellence Network.

Watch a video about the course developed with NHS England here

 
 
 

Skills for Health – what’s your action plan?

As of 1st April 2015 funding for Skills for Healthcare e-learning has been stopped and all users are now charged.

 
 
 

Do you use Skills for Health training? And before signing up for the same service have you considered your options?

We have provided training to over 1.5 million learners and have developed a healthcare specific package of mandatory e-learning courses organisations can pick and choose from, click here to view the package. 

 
 
1.5 million learners
 
 
childhood diabetes

Rise Child Diabetes

1,000 more children have been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes this year in comparison to the previous.

Click here to view the figures released by the NPDA.          

 
 
ccg event

East Riding CCG Professional Forum 

We have been asked to talk about the National Patient Safety Suite at this Practice and Community Nurse Professional Forum. Click here to find out more and see the agenda. 

 
 

New courses in development

We’re currently working with a number of sector experts on the following e-learning courses which are currently in development:

  • Forced Marriage
  • Skeletal Terminology
  • Diabetic Foot
  • Self-Harm and Suicide
 
 
CQC audits

Simplify CQC Audits

We’ve worked with industry experts to develop an online auditing tool that makes processes easier and quicker.

This auditing tool has a CQC Provider Compliance Assessment ready to use, find out more here.

 
 
 

Patient Safety Congress and Awards

 
 
 

We’re exhibiting at the Patient Safety Congress and Awards in July. This 2 day event showcases outstanding practice and features prestigious speakers such as Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director, NHS England, David Behan, Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission and Gill Leng, Deputy Chief Executive, NICE.  

Click here to view all the speakers at the event.

 
 
patient safety event

We’ll be on stand D6 presenting on the importance of e-learning in patient safety training. 

 
 

New members

A warm welcome to all new members who have joined recently, including:

  • St Catherine’s Hospice
  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Isle of Man, Nobles Hospital
  • Gravesham NHS Trust
  • South Sefton CCG
  • Stockport NHS Trust
  • Greater Preston CCG
  •  Sirona Care and Health
  • Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
  • ABL Health
 
 

Radicalisation training

We’re currently working with Dr Dave Sloggett, a leading authority on the subject, and Rizwaan Chothia, East Midlands Special Operation Prevent Engagement Officer, to create an e-learning course entitiled ‘Understanding Pathways to Extremism and the Prevent Programme’.

This course is being developed to compliment the Home Office HealthWRAP face to face training. Look out for more information coming soon.