Technology Enhanced Learning News

August 2025

A welcome message to TEL news August

Welcome to the latest issue of TEL News.

Over the summer months the TEL team have been busy reviewing and updating existing elearning programmes, as well as creating new elearning modules, many of which will launch in the Autumn. Here is a snapshot:

The Transfer (or migration) of elearning programmes to the Learning Hub continues at pace.
The Simulation and Immersive Technologies team have created a series of advanced topics as part of the learning programme.
The TEL network continues to grow and has added a new CPD session.
The Virtual and Hybrid Learning faculty has a growing library of best practice learning resources and will soon be adding a podcast and docuseries to their resources.
Many new competency frameworks are being developed on our Digital Learning Services platform and the platform is being used across the UK in line with the 10 year plan.

Visit our website for the latest TEL related news and programme launches.

Workstream Updates

Simulation and Immersive Technologies

Promoting national resources to regional nursing teams and universities

Over the summer, the team have delivered a series of webinars, highlighting and demonstrating the national TEL resources available to both nurse educators and learners from a variety of Higher Education Institutions.

The team presented to over 175 attendees from almost 65 universities, which represents over 75% of all HEIs offering nursing courses in England, they also talked to 3 NHS Trusts and 2 ICBs.

Initial feedback showed that most of the attendees were likely or very likely to use the resources demonstrated and that they were interested to find out more about the products and their potential to include in both nursing curricula and to support both educator development and ongoing CPD.

We received some really positive comments from attendees; “Some great work going on at NHSE”; “this was really inspiring and informative” and “this has been revelatory”.

For any nurse educators who were unable to attend a session, but would like to find out more, there will be an additional open session on 11 September at midday. To register your interest, please email england.simimmtech@nhs.net

Becoming Simulation Faculty: Second advanced topic launched

The second advanced topic in the Becoming Simulation Faculty programme, Evaluation in simulation-based practice, has been launched, with further topics planned for release over the autumn. The sessions will supplement learning from the core course and include:

Introduction to evaluation in simulation-based practice
Defining your project
Choosing the right evaluation approach
Designing your evaluation strategy

Additional or advanced topics are currently under development and are expected to be launched by the end of the year, including; Extended reality (XR), Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) and Simulated participants.

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“United Through Simulation” for Healthcare Simulation Week 2025

Healthcare Simulation Week is taking place from 15-19 September 2025, with a theme of “United Through Simulation”. The TEL Simulation and Immersive Technologies team are inviting you to unite and join us in celebrating the contribution of the NHS to the global simulation community.

More than 700 people have now united through the Becoming Simulation Faculty (BSF) workshops, community driven spaces, where faculty can learn from each other to develop their simulation facilitation skills. Find out more about BSF, and access learning resources on the Learning Hub. In addition, there are also communities of practice, which bring together people from across healthcare simulation to share and spread good practice in simulation and immersive technologies.

As part of Healthcare Simulation Week, we invite you to come together for our DIHCE (Digital Innovation in Health and Care Education) community on 18 September, and XRE (eXtended Reality in Education) community on 19 September, where we will be hosting special sessions to mark TEL’s contribution to the global simulation community. If you’re not already a member, complete the TEL registration form to join our communities.

Supporting TEL

Four Nations Responsible AI in Healthcare Education Conference

Join us on 12 November 2025 10am - 4pm for a virtual conference exploring the responsible use of artificial intelligence in healthcare education. This free event will bring together voices from across the UK to share insights, challenges, and opportunities in AI-enhanced learning and is open to all healthcare educators, trainers and education leaders across the UK.

Conference themes include:

Enhancing educator teaching capabilities
Curriculum and assessment transformation
Continuous professional development for educators
Responsible AI for quality learning
Practical risks, challenges, and ethics.

Interested? Register for a place. For more information, contact: england.TEL@nhs.net

TEL Network

Are you a member of the TEL Network? The TEL Network has been developed to enable professionals from the NHS, higher education and social care to connect with each other, ask questions, collaborate on TEL projects and share successes. As a network member, you will receive invitations to our events, such as quarterly TEL Forums, CPD sessions and Tea and TEL. Join the TEL Network.

The TEL Network annual membership evaluation is still open for responses. We would be grateful if you could take 5 minutes to give us your feedback on the TEL Network to help us plan our work for 2025-26.

Upcoming TEL Network CPD

Join colleagues from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, on Thursday 28th August for a dynamic CPD session that reimagines digital capability development through the power of video learning. Inspired by the accessibility and appeal of YouTube-style content, this session explores how technology-driven methods can boost confidence, enhance digital skills, and make training more inclusive.

Dive into digital formats that not only modernises the approach but also aligns with Trust-wide transformation initiatives and strategic goals.

Session: Embracing digital tools for training delivery: Transforming IT Training at Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Date and Time: Thursday 28 August 2025 10am to 11.30am

Register to secure your place.

Best Practice Learning Resources Library

Launched in May 2025, the Best Practice Learning Resources (BPLRs) library brings together the latest evidence-based best practice in a format that’s accessible, engaging, and ready to use. Designed to support individuals, teams, and systems, the library helps drive improvements in healthcare education and practice.

The BPLR Library has expanded yet again — with four new learning resources now available:

You can check out all the other BPLRs on the Learning Hub and access other VHLF resources on-demand (checklists, templates, slides, videos) by visiting the Learning Hub and selecting the VHLF catalogues using the links below:

Coming Soon: Inside TEL Podcast Series & Docuseries

Get ready to explore the future of healthcare education through the upcoming podcast and docuseries: Inside TEL

The six-part podcast series dives into the intersection of technology, AI, and innovation in healthcare education. Meanwhile, the docuseries takes a deeper look at how technology-enhanced learning is reshaping health and care education.

Special guest experts and industry voices, provide both series with fascinating insights into the evolving landscape of digital learning.

We look forward to sharing these with you in the coming weeks. If you would like to join the Community of Practice please register online. If you have any questions please email the team: england.VHLF@nhs.net.

Platform Updates

Platforms for education, skills and development

The TEL team continues to deliver live services to over 1 million colleagues in health and social care roles. This includes maintaining access to content through our 3 digital learning platforms and providing AICC and ESR links on relevant content.

The team are working hard on developing the Learning Hub and incorporating the functionality of a Learning Management System. This will enable remaining content from the elearning for healthcare (elfh) Hub to be available in the Learning Hub, including Statutory and Mandatory training.

In the future, the Learning Hub will be the single platform offer for learners, enhancing the user experience.

Digital Learning Solutions

The Competency Framework Service on Digital Learning Solutions (DLS) is being used across the UK and in line with the 10 Year Plan, the Competency Framework Service is being developed to support Skills Escalators.

Following feedback from framework owners and platform users, TEL are revising the support offering available to those using the competency frameworks service on DLS. The updated model is aligned for both new and existing frameworks, to ensure that everyone can access training. This will include new quarterly training sessions delivered by the TEL team and split by role.

Session 1 is for centre managers and implementation leads, whilst session 2 is aimed at supervisors and nominated supervisors. Both sessions will be held in early September, visit the training sessions for competency frameworks page to find out more.

Competency Frameworks

Frameworks and status on the platform and across the NHS:

PILOT

Digital IV Therapy Passport Step 4
Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) framework
Specialists HCSW framework
ACCEND

The Digital IV Therapy, STEPS 1 to 3, Paediatric Renal and Critical Care, PICU and Data professionals’ frameworks are live.

If you have any questions about the competency frameworks on DLS, the TEL support team host a monthly drop-in session to support centres across the UK. In addition, framework specific communities of practice (CoP) are run by the owners of each framework. If you are interested in joining these, please contact the TEL support team for further details.

If you would like to speak to someone about the TEL platforms, please email the TEL Platforms Implementation Managers

elearning for Healthcare

September AI Ambassador Network meeting

The next AI Ambassador Network meeting will take place on 3 September 2025, 10.30 – midday and will feature speakers Megan Morys-Carter - Director of Digital Innovation, Oxford University Hospitals Trust and Maria Garcia, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, UCLH Trust. This meeting will be of interest to anyone in health and social care, whether in the initial planning stage, about to implement AI Technology, or wanting to optimise existing AI usage. Join the AI Ambassador Network, to register.

Foundation Programme August update

The August Foundation Programme Update is now available and covers safe prescribing. Available in the elearning for healthcare Foundation Programme (2021 curriculum) – there are sessions that can help you including; FPC 1: Clinical Assessment, FPC 2: Clinical Prioritisation, FPC3: Holistic Planning, FPC 4: Communication and Care and FPC 5: Continuity of Care Specific Areas of Core Learning High Risk Prescribing Patient Safety. Check out the update for more details on these and other useful sessions: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/august-foundation-programme-update/

Covid Vaccination Programme Relocating

The COVID Vaccination elearning programme is moving to the Learning Hub on 15 September 2025. A redirect from the elfh Hub will send you directly to the new location of the programme in the Learning Hub. After the programme has moved to the Learning Hub, learning activity is recorded in ‘My learning’, where you can resume training and download evidence of training completion. Find out more about the relocation plans on the website.

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