e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) works in partnership with the NHS and professional bodies to support patient care by providing free, high quality e-learning for the training and education of the healthcare workforce across the UK. By January 2013, learners had accessed 3,643,375 discrete e-learning sessions and undertaken 1,909,525 hours of learning.
e-LfH was established as a Department of Health programme in 2007, after successfully demonstrating the potential impact of e-learning in Radiology. In April 2013, e-LfH became part of Health Education England (HEE).
e-LfH is currently developing and delivering more than 60 e-learning projects in partnership with the medical Royal Colleges, other professional healthcare organisations and Department of Health policy teams. Projects are selected for their potential to make maximum impact on the quality of patient care, and to support the core principles of Quality, Innovation, Prevention and Productivity.
All e-LfH e-learning is available free of charge to all relevant users in health and social care, across the NHS family, thus facilitating multi-disciplinary training and teamwork.
From audiology to anaesthesia, dentistry to dermatology, electronic fetal monitoring to end of life care, primary care to prescribing, e-LfH’s e-learning projects contribute to the revolution in UK medical and healthcare training by providing 24/7 access to online, nationally quality-assured materials. The online training sessions enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point. Sessions are designed and built to be engaging and interactive, and use high quality images, video, audio and animation to help users understand and retain knowledge. Content is presented using a variety of templates such as ‘real-life’ scenarios, case studies and ‘knowledge bites’.
The e-LfH Learning Management System records user activity, enabling users to run reports on all their learning activity and build a transferable life-long learning portfolio. A new, simplified, reporting suite went live in 2012 and reports can be viewed online, or downloaded in PDF or Excel formats for use offline. Some projects also feed reports automatically to their associated e-portfolios, and, with appropriate permissions, trainers and employers can run reports on discrete groups of users.
The e-LfH programme has won many industry awards for e-learning best practice, and is proud to have been described as “transforming medical education for the 21st century”.
Further information is available on our website: www.e-lfh.org.uk
As projects are completed