Workforce Projects Team (WPT) is delighted to announce a partnership between them, London Deanery and the Department of Health to produce a Hospital at Night (HaN) e-learning package for multiprofessional teams.
The national e-learning for health governance board have given their approval for a Hospital at Night e-learning training package to be developed and hosted on the national platform. WPT and London Deanery are collaborating to support the development of the Hospital at Night e-learning training programme for multidisciplinary teams.
HaN was shortlisted for this year’s British Medical Journal Education and Learning awards and was highly commended in the Health Services Journal Patient Safety category in 2008. The London Deanery has been working on some well regarded training initiatives including the ‘Simulation and Technology-enhanced Learning Initiative’ (STeLI), which has been cited in the Chief Medical Officer’s 2008 Annual Report Safer Medical Practice. By working together with the London Deanery and the Department of Health’s national e-learning programme, an innovative package can be developed to support training in multiprofessional teams.
Increasingly, it is being recognised that the skills required for looking after an acutely ill patient are generic, cutting across a variety of professions, and that training can be developed to be delivered to all the relevant staff groups. Developing these skills with these professionals supports patient safety and increases the quality of care.
The e-learning package will consist of approximately 12 hours of e-learning content and should link across to training on the HaNBleep system.
It will cover key topics such as:
Acute and critical care skills
Patient safety and clinical prioritisation
Teamwork, leadership and communication
Handover
Clinical prioritisation
Top 10 calls to HaN teams
Top 10 clinical conditions
Safe outcomes and quality of care.
A clinical lead and an editorial board will be appointed shortly to lead the project and develop the programme over the next few months.
The partners are exploring plans to link the e-learning package to a multiprofessional training centre. In this training clinical teams will be put through their paces in a fully equipped ‘Learning Hospital’. By using full immersion scenarios it will be possible to train teams in a highly realistic clinical training environment. This will allow them to develop insight into refining their clinical practice in the context of HaN.
Now the EWTD deadline has passed it is envisaged that trusts will be focussing on sustainability of solutions and developing a multiprofessional team to care for patients is one way of ensuring this. Trusts are also looking to improve the quality of training delivered in a 48 hour week through exploring different ways of delivering training and developing an innovative approach. This HaN e-learning package aims to support trusts to achieve these objectives and maximise patient safety and training opportunities.
For further information on this please visit: www.healthcareworkforce.nhs.uk/hanelearning
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