The e-learning resource will help to deliver the roll out of the Prime Minister’s dementia package that would see 100,000 nurses and health care assistants receiving dementia training by e-learning by 2015.

The e-learning sessions in dementia have been developed by e-Learning for Healthcare, part of Health Education England (HEE), the new body responsible for the education and training of health and healthcare staff.

Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health announced further measures to tackle dementia, one year on from the Prime Minister’s Challenge of Dementia. This ambitious programme of work is designed to make a real difference to the lives of people with dementia and their families and carers.

The Dementia e-learning sessions have been designed to familiarise health and social care staff with recognising and understanding dementia and to be able to signpost appropriate support.

Written by experts in both psychiatry and medicine for the elderly, the e-learning supports both the implementation of the National Dementia Strategy and David Cameron’s challenge.

Staff will be able to access three 30 minute sessions of learning which will support staff with difficult questions such as ‘I am worried about Dad’ that could be asked of anyone in contact with patients and families on a day to day basis. It also covers the importance of public health messages and addressing social stigma as essential in making a difference in caring for people with dementia.

In addition, a further ten 30 minute sessions are available which support more advanced practice in assessing and managing dementia, whilst equipping staff with the skills to provide high quality dementia care.

Professor Chris Welsh, Director of Education and Quality of HEE said:  “The nature of dementia means that managing the condition can pose unique and sometimes difficult issues for staff, both in the hospital and in the community.

“We believe that care for patients with dementia needs to start in education to create a dementia-aware workforce.  This e-learning tool is the first step in a three stage programme led by Health Education England in improving the care for those with dementia.

“Over the coming months, we will be working with providers of education to ensure that dementia and other long term conditions play a far greater role in the knowledge and the skills we expect of those who graduate to become professionals in the NHS.

“This will become a mandatory part of the education we expect all staff to have before joining the NHS”.

Stage three will be the delivery of expert leaders in each NHS institution who will work across disciplines, and with senior staff, to lead dementia awareness, treatment and training programmes.  The development of these posts will be supported by Local Education and Training Boards (LETBs) in their work locally with NHS providers of care.

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For further information contact Richard Green, Head of Media Relations, 07557 204428

Notes for editors: HEE was established on 28 June 2012, working as a shadow Special Health Authority from 1 October 2012. It took on its full operational responsibilities from1 April 2013. It has five national functions:

• providing national leadership on planning and developing the healthcare and public health workforce;
• promoting high quality education and training that is responsive to the changing needs of patients and local communities, including responsibility for ensuring the effective delivery of important national functions such as medical trainee recruitment;
• ensuring security of supply of the health and public health workforce;
• appointing and supporting the development of LETBs; and
• allocating and accounting for NHS education and training resources and the outcomes achieved.

The e-learning dementia resource can be accessed here http://www.elfh.org.uk/projects/dementia/ . e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) is an award-winning programme providing national, quality assured online training content for the healthcare profession.   Contributing to the revolution in healthcare training in the UK, e-LfH’s e-learning projects enhance traditional learning, support existing teaching methods and provide a valuable reference point which can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

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Where local areas have succeeded in integrating health, care and support services, too often it has been despite the national system rather than because of it. This is why Health Education England has joined a range of national partner organisations, to support local areas to tackle these national barriers and allow locally-led, integrated services to flourish.

Context setting for the Framework document

As national partners, we have co-produced Integrated Care and Support: our shared commitment – a framework document on integration.

The document, signed by all the partners, sets out how local areas can use existing structures such as Health and Wellbeing Boards to bring together local authorities, the NHS, care and support providers, education, housing services, public health and others to make further steps towards integration.

Context setting for the Narrative

National Voices, a national coalition of health and care charities, has developed a person-centred ‘narrative’ on integration. This is an agreed definition of what we mean by ‘integrated’ care. It provides a guide to the sort of things that integrated care will achieve, such as better planning, more personal involvement of the person using services, and free access to good information. It also provides some clarity over what local areas should be aiming to achieve practically, in their efforts to integrate services.

It is written not just for the experts, but for patients, people, families and carers. It shows them what they have a right to expect, so they can then demand the most helpful care and support.

As a national partner we have adopted this definition of what good integrated care and support looks and feels like for people, and we are asking local areas to sign up to using it too.

Context setting for the Pioneers programme

Together the national partners are asking local areas to express an interest in becoming ‘pioneers’ to act as exemplars, demonstrating the use of ambitious and innovative approaches to efficiently deliver integrated care.

We are looking for pioneers that will work across the whole of their local health, public health and care and support systems, and alongside other local authority departments as necessary, to achieve and demonstrate the scale of change that is required.

The national partners will provide tailored support to pioneers. In return, we expect them to be at the forefront of sharing and promoting what they’ve learned for wider adoption across the country.

To read the framework, Integrated Care and Support: our shared commitment, click here.

Read the letter inviting local areas to become pioneers: click here.

To read the National Voices, person-centred ‘narrative’ on integration click here.

For an easy read version of the narrative click here.

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BTBC News: May 2013

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They are part of a national steering group announced today by Health Education England. The group will be chaired by Sir Stephen Moss, a non-executive director at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and former turnaround chair at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust.

The group includes nursing leaders from the Royal College of Nursing, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the Care Quality Commission, NHS England, the Department of Health, Public Health England, NHS Employers and the NHS Trust Development Authority.

Robert Francis, in his inquiry report into the failings at Mid Staffs, recommended that student nurses should spend at least three months working on the direct care of patients before their degree course. He called for an increased focus in nurse training and education on the practical requirements of delivering compassionate care and evidence of the appropriate values, attitudes and behaviours.

The Government response to the Francis report proposed that student nurses should spend up to a year working on the front line in order to receive NHS funding for their degree.The steering group announced today will oversee a pilot programme, working with partners across the NHS and higher education, to see how best to take forward these proposals and assess the most appropriate timescale.

Pilots are likely to involve up to 200 nursing students on paid placements across the country from this autumn and the steering group will also be responsible for evaluation in areas including the ability to test for values and behaviours and reductions in attrition rates.

Professor Ian Cumming OBE, Chief Executive of Health Education England, said: ‘By asking prospective students to undertake up to a year of experience on the front line, we can start to ensure that the NHS recruits not just for skills and academic ability but also for values and behaviours that can be tested in a healthcare environment before the NHS spends thousands of pounds on their education.

Professor Cumming said: ‘The healthcare experience will allow students to understand whether nursing and hands-on care is right for them. It will mean better, more experienced and more committed students in our universities. That is good for patients and good for the NHS.

He said: ‘It should also help to reduce the drop-out rates at university. It should be hard to be a nurse – a vocation, a real desire, not just something you accept as second best so you can do a degree course.’

Sir Stephen Moss, Chair of the steering group, said: ‘I am delighted to have been asked to chair the steering group for this important piece of work and look forward very much to working with a very experienced and committed group of colleagues on the implementation and evaluation of the pilots.

Sir Stephen said: ‘I am proud to be a nurse and want to do everything I can to ensure that we take this opportunity to address the many challenges currently facing our profession.

He said: ‘It is vitally important that we deliver skilled patient care, with kindness and compassion, and piloting this pre-degree experience will enable us to test out the effectiveness of exposing potential students to front line care and professional values at an early stage, before their formal degree programme. Of one thing I am certain, that is that things cannot stay as they are. We owe it to those we serve to continually seek new and innovative ways to meet their needs.’

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For further information contact Richard Green, Head of Media Relations, 07557 204428

Notes for editors: HEE was established on 28 June 2012, working as a shadow Special Health Authority from 1 October 2012. It took on its full operational responsibilities from1 April 2013. It has five national functions:

• providing national leadership on planning and developing the healthcare and public health workforce;
• promoting high quality education and training that is responsive to the changing needs of patients and local communities, including responsibility for ensuring the effective delivery of important national functions such as medical trainee recruitment;
• ensuring security of supply of the health and public health workforce;
• appointing and supporting the development of LETBs; and
• allocating and accounting for NHS education and training resources and the outcomes achieved.

A full list of the steering group membership is attached below, along with a biography for Sir Stephen Moss.

For more information on HEE visit our website – www.hee.nhs.uk or follow us on Twitter- @nhs_healthedeng or Facebook- www.facebook.com/nhshee

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Steering Group

Biography – Sir Stephen Moss

Stephen is a nurse by background, and has spent his entire career in the NHS.

After a number of years in clinical practice, he moved into a variety of nursing and general management roles and has over 30 years experience in posts at board level, including chief nurse, chief executive, non executive director and chairman.

Stephen was appointed by the Secretary of State as a Commissioner on the board of the first health service quality regulator, the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI).

In February 2009, Stephen was asked to join the board of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust as a non executive director, shortly before the publication of the highly critical Healthcare Commission Report. He took on the role of chairman in August 2009 until January 2012.

Stephen has recently been appointed a non executive director at Derby Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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11am-2pm, Wednesday 8 May 2013
Ground floor Board Room, Blenheim House
Duncombe Street
Leeds, LS1 4PL

Agenda and Board Papers

Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Apologies
3. Declarations of Interest
4. Minutes of Board Meeting held 27 March 2013
5. Action Tracker
6. Chief Executive’s Update
          6a. HEE Directions 2013         
          6b. Accounting Officer Arrangements
          6c. Harris Review
          6d. Patients First and Foremost
7. Scheme of Delegation and Standing Financial Instructions
          7a. Appendix A: Scheme of Delegation
          7b. Appendix B: Standing Financial Instructions
8. Finance Report
9. Review of SHA Quality Handover Documents
          9a. Quality Handover Documents: Thematic Risk Report
10. HEE Integrated Performance Framework
11. Any other business
12. Questions from the public

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