Skills for Health launch new suite of primary care e-learning courses
The courses, delivered in partnership with the National Skills Academy for Health, were developed with the help of a panel of healthcare professionals and reflect all current government and expert guidelines.
The group assisted with the review and adjustment of existing core skills courses and provided insight into which areas would be most beneficial to CCG organisations, GP practices and the wider primary care sector.
Sam Gallaher, Executive Director of Skills for Health said: “Skills for Health recognises the important role Primary care plays in healthcare and has produced a set of e-learning resources to support statutory and mandatory training in the community.
“Developed by primary care staff for primary care staff these innovative resources allow staff to undertake training anywhere they have an internet connection. Based on the Core Skills Training Framework learning outcomes we see these training resources as an important step forward in an integrated approach to training across the healthcare sector.”
Roland Gude, Strategic Director at Sentinel Healthcare Southwest CiC, was part of the development process, using his experience in General Practice management to contribute suggested changes to the existing courses.
He said: “We spent time looking through the existing courses and making sure images, case studies and questions were aimed at GPs, rather than hospital staff. The new relevance of the course and their ability to be completed in remote locations in the GPs own time is definitely a unique offering and one that will hopefully make the courses a success.”
Farzana Hussain, a GP Principal, who trialed the new e-learning courses, said: “I don’t usually respond well to e-learning and find it a bit dry but I thought the courses were really useful; all the mandatory requirements were covered, modules with the videos and interactive topics really brought the learning to life and the information was really easy to digest”
