Please find here a presentation which informs about the Genomics education packages available at all levels – awareness raising to Masters level at the University of Manchester.

These are for all healthcare staff and not just Healthcare Scientist to access so please circulate as widely as possible.

A new guide outlines the principles that will help employers to deliver high-quality apprenticeships. Access the self-assessment and planning guide, developed by National Skills Academy for Health and Health Education England, which also includes good practice examples from trusts.
Read more here

A new apprenticeship standard for healthcare science practitioners is now ready for delivery. The standard sets out the skills, knowledge and behaviours required in the role, and outlines the competencies apprentices will need to demonstrate.
Read more here

The Royal college of emergency medicine has updated their e-learning resources, and now have a unique resource combining open access podcasts, blogs, and reference material on one curriculum linked website.

RCEM members can also access learning modules and questions. The resources can be accessed via http://www.Rcemlearning.Co.Uk

They are on twitter @rcemlearning

Combining traditional resources with FOAM means that everyone should be able to benefit and find useful information that suits their learning style.

A new website, launched with the Royal College of Radiologists, aims to save recruitment costs in radiology departments and become the go-to place for all radiology and clinical oncology roles. Find out more about Radjobs

Think Kidneys aim is to raise awareness, reduce avoidable harm and death and improve care for people with AKI in the community or in the hospital.

Patients and NHS professionals have developed all the resources together. We’ve taken advantage of their passion, skill and commitment to reduce the risk of AKI, improve outcomes for patients and reduce the financial burden on the NHS.
All the resources can be found online www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk . Case studies, blogs and latest news are on our website, where we share how people are working differently and improving awareness, prevention, detection, treatment and care right across the NHS and social care.
A public campaign was launched in 2016 to raise awareness of the importance of our kidneys for health and life. Early research found only 50% of the population know that their kidneys make urine. Our campaign reached over 20 million people through the media and our posters, which can be ordered here www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk for free, are on display in many GP surgeries, pharmacies, clinics and care homes. We are very keen to help people who are at risk of AKI understand how they can help themselves.
Recognised as a patient safety issue, Think Kidneys is supported by the UK Renal Registry and NHS Improvement Safety team. Using existing blood results an algorithm was implemented in labs systems to provide an AKI warning stage test result. Not only does this help the care of individual patients but the data are collected by the UK Registry to help the NHS improve care across the country – this is the first and largest set of information on AKI in the world.
Find out more and join our community online to change the way AKI is managed in your organisation at www.thinkkidneys.nhs.uk Think Kidneys – it’s all about safety, improvement, quality and better care.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has updated its revalidation standards and guidance in line with a planned review and stakeholder feedback.

Key changesAll documents except the Code have been revised. The standards and guidance includes:

• New examples of circumstances which would not count towards practice hours, i.e. work as a healthcare assistant or placements undertaken as part of a shortened midwifery training course.
  
• Changes in How to revalidate and the guidance sheet to explain why the reflective discussion partner must be a registrant and why the discussion must be a single discussion with one other person.
• Changes to the continuing professional development (CPD) examples to clarify that CPD is separate and different from everyday learning. Coaching and mentoring counts when it involves a specific skill. Group meetings should be outside of everyday practice.
• An explanation on how confirmation differs from appraisal, and clarification that confirmation is not an assessment against the requirements of the registrants current/former employment.
• Amendments to the alternative support arrangements guidance sheet to explain that applications for exceptional circumstances, due to lack of time, will not generally be accepted if nurses and midwives have been practising for more than six months since the guidance was launched. Registrants are expected to meet the requirements in a timely manner, on an on going basis.
  
• Clarification that where applicants declare they are not able to meet the revalidation requirements due to health reasons, their application may be referred to the assistant registrar for consideration in line with NMC guidance on health and character.

Further information 
To find out more about revalidation, please visit our revalidation for nurses and midwives section of the website.  Download the revised guidance documents

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