Training and elearning

The Gloucestershire virtual school for children in care
Gloucestershire County Council’s virtual school is responsible for over 400 children in care from 5-19 years of age. Online classes were set up in order to help the youngsters achieve as much as other pupils in education. The virtual school has put together a school council. It has no site and few teachers, but offers individual online learning programmes with encouraging results. Head Teacher of the Virtual School, Jane Featherstone explains how. July 2008. read more ...

Selecting and managing inhouse trainers at Heatherwood & Wexham Hospitals
On adopting new digital radiology systems, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust identified a problem with training enough of its staff to use the new systems. The Trust selected Ideal Training to help role out a 'training cascade' programme whereby selected staff are trained as trainers, and then implement a full training programme of all staff who would use the systems, with minimum disruption to existing services. The Trust can now offer a high quality diagnostic imaging service and has the capability to support existing and new staff to use the systems. May 2008. read more ...

The National Library for Health — an architecture for knowledge discovery to delivery
Ian McKinnell Head of Development at the National Library for Health summarises the achievements of the Library in its aim to build a modern, networked library service that links users to both digital and physical library services, putting knowledge to work to transform patient care and public health. March 2008. read more...

Design of a fully client-based electronic attendance registration system in a UK district hospital
Dr Michael Ogundele, Dr Baljinder Singh and Dr Stella Imong of Torbay Hospital have developed an easy-to-use and effective web-based system which allows doctors in training and other healthcare professionals to record their attendance at various academic sessions organised by their hospital. February 2008. read more ...

How health-informatics practitioners in England’s NHS view their personal and professional development
Pam Hughes from the Information Centre for Health and Social Care reports on a study on this issue. May 2007. read article ...

Combating infection with online learning
This article looks at elearning within the NHS and how it is being used as a key tool in combating healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) and creating awareness of effective decontamination processes within NHS facilities. November 2006. read article ...

Simulation and elearning: the ideal partnership?
Advances in technology have led to opportunities for different methods of teaching and training. This paper explores the combination of two of these new technology-based educational methods: anatomical simulation and screen-based learning. November 2006. read article ...

Learning Management System simplifies training administration
Oldham Primary Care Trust wanted to improve the management of learning, particularly with regards to the monitoring, evaluation and administration of training. The solution was a trust-wide learning management system. November 2006. read article ...