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The act of prescribing and the deliveries of learning – a project underway

Sofia Kitromili, 6 July 2023

New research aims to investigate effective learning delivery methods for trainee prescribers. Dr Sofia Kitromili, TEL User Researcher, and Dr David James, Former Director of British Pharmacological Society explain the impact of training on healthcare delivery. Prescribing medicines is the major tool used by the NHS to treat illness, alleviate symptoms, and prevent future disease….

Tackling the climate crisis – recommended learning for healthcare staff

Kieron Bradshaw, 10 November 2022

The disruption to care, and effect on the public at every stage of their lives, makes the climate crisis a health emergency. The good news is that we can all play a major part in the solution to this. As countries come together in Egypt for COP27, here is some recommended learning (all freely available on Health Education England’s elearning for healthcare platform), to help you achieve the targets set out in the Delivering a Net Zero NHS report.

Learning Technologies Conference 2018 Review

Avatar photo telblogmin, 5 February 2018

Learning Technologies is amongst the largest learning, education and skills exhibitions and conferences in the world and was attended by some of Health Education England’s Technology Enhanced Learning team. The conference ran from 31 January-1 February 2018 at Olympia in London. Research and Markets estimate that the learning technology industry will be worth an estimated…

Let’s do this!

Avatar photo telblogmin, 12 November 2015

We weren’t sure what to expect, to be honest.  We knew Hack Partners were experienced in pulling off these kind of events and some of us had a bit of experience at a Hack Partners’ hackathon but this was an exploratory exercise for us.  We knew that we wanted to innovate ourselves, we knew that…

They think it’s all over

Avatar photo telblogmin, 9 November 2015

The presentations at the end of a long weekend by all the teams completely bowled me over. The level of sophistication in presentation, design and working prototypes was quite amazing, as was the energy and enthusiasm in delivery. What seems so unfair is that each team only gets four minutes to pitch and two minutes to…

Reflections on TELHack from John Pyle – a mentor for the weekend

Avatar photo telblogmin, 8 November 2015

John has had to leave TELHack but has posted this to us to post here. John Pyle – Director of OpenHealth Hub, Director of Nine Health, Director of Commade TELHack 2015 (London): A perspective from a veteran of NHS Hackdays I have been privileged to have been able to see the development of the TELHack…