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Autumn 2008
With our compliments....
On Friday 10th October, 47 healthcare professionals graduated from Education for Health programmes in an inspirational and moving service at St Mary’s Church in Warwick; our graduates were awarded 5 Diplomas in Respiratory Care, 11 BSc (Hons) in Respiratory Care, 13 Diplomas in Chronic Disease Management, 1 PG Diploma, 1 PG Certificate, 15 MSc in Respiratory Care and 1 Honorary MSc in Respiratory Care.
Their achievement is great and we have been proud and honoured to work alongside them. Their awards mean that they have demonstrated clear ability to understand, use and apply evidence based care to improve patients’ lives. With extraordinary commitment, many of them have already used their new knowledge to transform workplace practice and service delivery – very visible examples of Lord Darzi’s vision of education being used as a lever for service improvement.
We believe education to be a continuum which allows and encourages us to learn from each other. These graduates have achieved exceptional results and we will be working with them to share their work more widely over the coming months.
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Vicki Golding
On behalf of the Communications Team
Education for Health
Taking action, educating people and transforming lives worldwide
Summary
Taking Action
- Invitation to all involved with the prevention and early intervention of stroke
- Launch of new electronic educational resource on the management of respiratory disease
- Development of new Cardiovascular resource to improve care for people at risk
- European Lung Foundation raises awareness of lung disease for patients across Europe
Educating People
- Putting Lord Darzi‘s vision for education into practice
- Locally Delivered Training – meeting the training needs of healthcare professionals
- How can you improve adherence in your asthma patients? - By taking part in Asthma UK’s survey
- WebWatch: Walking the Way to Health – initiative aiming to encourage people to do regular walks in their communities
Transforming Lives Worldwide
- Signpost to Web News – To help you keep abreast of developments and access new content on our website:
- New Course Programme; upcoming education & training dates now enrolling
- Aspire to Inspire: New 2-Day Course; Facilitation, Presentation & Teaching Skills
- 20% Discount Book Offer; Caring for Muslim Patients & Palliative Care for South Asians
- Bursary opportunity with the Queen’s Nursing Institute; ‘Careers in the Community’
- Education Commissioning; using education to achieve your healthcare targets for long term conditions
- How to make your case for Education and Training – Download unique Toolkits; update
- Free Diagnostic Algorithm - to guide the management of hayfever and perennial rhinitis
Taking Action
Invitation to all involved with the prevention and early intervention of stroke
The Department of Health is currently considering what the recently published Stroke Strategy means for the workforce. They have set up a new national Stroke Training Forum and invited Education for Health to be part of its steering group. We've also been invited to chair one of the four Task Groups: Awareness raising and information...
Learn more about this Task Force and give us your views at:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#stroke1
Launch of new electronic educational resource on the management of respiratory disease
eGuidelines.co.uk and Education for Health have launched REAL (Respiratory Education and Learning). It will provide healthcare professionals with an interactive asthma case study, information on how respiratory drugs work, self-management plans, and links to expert articles and the latest BTS/SIGN guideline on asthma. It also offers a route to a range of accredited educational modules from Education for Health which enables multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable health improvements for their patients with asthma..
Learn more about REAL at:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#real
Development of new Cardiovascular resource to improve care for people at risk
Jo Haws, Clinical Lecturer in CVD and PCCS/CVNL Forum Member
One of the first things I’m keen to develop is a series of educational slide sets that Cardiovascular Nurse Leads may find useful in their work to improve cardiovascular care for people at risk. To provide up to date, clinically relevant information, free to download and adapt for local delivery, I’m starting with the Stroke Strategy and invite colleagues and fellow CVNL’s to contribute...
Find out about this new CVD resource and send your ideas directly to Jo Haws at:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/cvdresource1.pdf
European Lung Foundation raises awareness of lung disease for patients across Europe with new online resource
The European Lung Foundation has just published a fantastic resource for health professions and patients about air travel and oxygen. The potential problems associated with lung diseases and air travel are well recognised. Many lung patients are now able to safely enjoy the benefits of air travel if they plan their provisions in advance. This new online resource details every airline across Europe, what they provide and who to contact. Monica Fletcher, our Chief Executive is Chairman of the International Professional Advisory Committee and a member of the Council…
Find out more at:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/resources/resources.asp#webwatch3a
Educating People
Putting Lord Darzi‘s vision for education into practice
47 health professionals graduated from Education for Health this year with Open University qualifications. As graduates they share the ability to effect and manage change, and the future for their patients is bright indeed...
Learn more about our Graduates achievements: http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp
Locally Delivered Training – meeting the training needs of healthcare professionals
In these days of economic uncertainty not all commissioners of training are willing to support 6 month diploma or degree modules for large numbers of students, although we have good evidence to say that those who have been on our courses change and improve patient care in primary and secondary care. As Scottish Training Coordinator, Ruth McArthur was asked to put together a programme for local nurses in the Glasgow area who already had some experience in the management of asthma and COPD. As well as a bespoke course on Eczema, commissioned by a Lead School Nurse based at Greenwich Teaching PCT...
Learn more about commissioning bespoke training in your locality: http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/_documents/ldt.pdf
How can you improve adherence in your asthma patients? - By taking part in Asthma UK’s survey
Asthma UK is investigating how well healthcare professionals understand their patients’ concerns regarding side effects of steroid medication. If you are seeing asthma patients, Asthma UK would really value your input in this survey. This will only take 5 minutes of your time and the results will be published in a subsequent e-newsletter...
Follow the link to find out more and take part in the survey:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/research/research.asp#Research3
WebWatch: Walking the Way to Health – initiative aiming to encourage people to do regular walks in their communities
Walking the way to Health (WHI) is the largest national body promoting and setting the standards for led health walks. It is a joint initiative between Natural England and the British Heart Foundation which aims to encourage people, particularly those who take little exercise, to do regular short walks in their communities. With more than 525 supported health walks on the WHI website – you can find your local ones using the fully interactive Walk Finder and further resources can be found on our website...
Keep up to date with the WebWatch series at:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/resources/resources.asp#webwatch3
Transforming Lives Worldwide
Sign Post to Web News
To help you keep abreast of developments and access new content on our website, just follow the links:
New Course Programme – Choose from our upcoming education & training dates now enrolling: http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/courseprog.asp
Aspire to Inspire: New 2-Day Course; Facilitation, Presentation & Teaching Skills;
Get to grips with the current thinking and theories behind effective facilitation and presentation techniques. Following a highly successful pilot the first course will run in Warwick in November...
Find out more and reserve your place:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/about_us/press_releases_news.asp#aspire
20% Discount Book Offer - Caring for Muslim Patients & Palliative Care for South Asians;
Providing a very helpful insight into different communities, for health professionals who are serious about making a difference to patients’ health and quality of life...
20% discount offer for readers of the British Journal of Primary Care Nursing:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/resources/resources.asp#offer
Bursary opportunity with the Queen’s Nursing Institute; ‘Careers in the Community’
A new opportunity to seek funding support with your education and training needs is available from the Queens Nursing Institute (QNI) - they are keen to support nurses and midwives at the start of their career in the community who want to make a difference to their patients.
The QNI offer funding that can be used towards part or total funding of a course or study day...
Visit our website for more info:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/funding_sponsorship/funding_spons.asp#funding2
Education Commissioning - use education to achieve your healthcare targets for long term conditions. Find out how we could help you:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/commissioners.asp
How to make your case for Education & Training – Download unique Toolkits; update
Our highly successful toolkits have been updated to offer nurses a simple, effective way to produce business cases to successfully secure funds for continuing professional development. Updated proposals for evidence based healthcare, TB and cardiovascular areas such as AF, CHD, CVD Risk, Diabetes, Heart Failure, Hypertension and Stroke...
For more information and to download FREE Toolkits:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/businesscase.asp
Free Diagnostic Algorithm - to guide the management of hayfever and perennial rhinitis
An algorithm has been made available on our website as a direct result of feedback from ATS delegates of an international workshop run by Education for Health Director of Research and Education, Dr Samantha Walker. She said, “Speaking on allergy diagnosis, one of my slides showed a simple algorithm to guide such decisions and it seemed simplest to put it on our website.”...
Download Free Diagnostic Algorithm:
http://www.educationforhealth.org.uk/pages/resources/resources.asp#algorithm
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