The NHS Core Learning Unit's long awaited 'Food, Nutrition and Hydration for health and social care' programme has recently been launched. NHS South Central are the designated sponsor for promoting this programme and we have begun to do so thr

Doctors Induction continued

Jun 13th, 2008

Progress is being made with the standardisation of doctors induction across the Wessex deanery. A further meeting took place this week to review where we were at. A number of training matrices have been collected from Trusts and PCTs in the r

A long silence, a short summary

Jun 6th, 2008

Phew! It's been a couple of weeks since I've last blogged, so I shall summarise a few of the latest activities just to give you a flavour of what has been happening...Heather Penny has now joined the ESR team as 'National NLMS Account Manager',

Core Learning Unit: How to Run Usage Reports

May 16th, 2008

I hosted NESC's first ever webinar yesterday. The topic was 'Core Learning Unit: how to run usage reports'. Our featured presenters were Nicola Buckland, Learning Support Manager at the NHS Core Learning Unit (CLU), and Lee-Anne Smith, Programm

Managing Induction for Doctors in Training

May 14th, 2008

Last Thursday I attended the first of two sessions 'Managing Induction for Doctors in Training' led by Dr Ray Vieweg, Clinical Tutor and Consultant Psychiatrist at Portsmouth City PCT.The aim of the first session was to explore the potential fo

Novelty blogging from Leeds

Apr 29th, 2008

Please humour me... I have been armed with a blackberry and i have set up an email address that publishes to my blog from wherever i am.i am in leeds today ...well im just pulling away from the station actually. I have been to visit our colleag

Nelson Mandela is dead!

Apr 9th, 2008

Helen and I attended The University of Winchester Learning and Teaching Day 2008. The theme for the event was 'Gold Blend - Pedagogy and E-learning'.The day began with a keynote speech entitled 'Perspectives on pedagogy and eLearning' presente

My secondment has been extended!!!

Apr 2nd, 2008

Well... I am really pleased to write that my secondment with NESC has been extended for a further year. - and full time too!So, I've decided to document my journey in an attempt to keep you up-to-date with everything that is going on behind the