Further Information: e-Learning content is designed in line with the NHS National e-Learning Framework.
What does this mean?
There is accelerating interest in the potential of e-Learning to benefit the NHS in the context of the agenda for the transformation of health services and related training and education.
The National Workforce Group has published an e-Learning strategy for the NHS, called the National e-Learning framework. This framework is an extension of the document Modernising Healthcare Training: e-Learning in healthcare services.
It is important therefore that any e-Learning training resources that you commission or design support the aims stated in these documents.
If you are not familiar with them it is worth looking at them and checking that you understand what they are saying and how that might relate to any e-Learning which you are thinking about commissioning.
The Department of Health [DH] has commissioned content for use nationally alongside the e-Learning strategy. A good example is the commissioning of the Infection Control programme produced by the Core Learning Unit.
The NHS Core Learning Unit (CLU) provides a curriculum of work-based training courses. The courses are transferable, accredited, nationally endorsed, as well as being mapped to the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF), NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA), Care Quality Commission and sector skills competencies.
Other providers of national content commissioned by the DH include e-Learning for Healthcare and NHS Connecting for Health themselves.
Also, the UK Alliance for e-Learning in health is responding to this increased interest in the use of e-Learning to support the training and education of the health and social care workforce. The purpose of their database is to capture and share details of e-Learning programmes that have been developed and are available for use within the health and care sector.
Examples of their courses are:
- non-medical Prescribing e-Learning resource project
- Coronary Heart Disease
- safeguarding children
In addition
The learning enabled through the use of e-Learning needs to be mapped to the common approved competence frameworks being used within the NHS such as National Occupational Standards (accessible via the Skills for Health website) and the Knowledge and Skills Framework [KSF].
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