1. Do employees at the trust undertake clinical end user training for medical devices? A Yes, although see answer 2 below. 2. Which departments or employee titles are required to undertake medical device end user training?
A The department and job roles that are required to undertake training varies considerable based on the specific medical device. It is not possible to detail all of this as we have over 11,000 items of medical equipment and 5,500 staff. But in general terms the departments include:
• Mental health in-patient wards
• Physical health community hospital wards
• Community based staff in a range of different services e.g. district nurses.
• Minor Injury and Illness Units MIIUs.
• Children and Young People’s Services
In terms of job roles, this will include:
• Registered nurses
• Healthcare Support Workers across a wide range of services.
• Allied Health Professionals – Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists etc
• Facilities Staff, including Porters and Housekeepers. • And in fact all our staff have to undertake Resuscitation Training at Level 1 or above which includes awareness of the use of Defibrillators. 3. How is the training provided?
• Online/E-learning
• In person • Combination of online & in person • Other please state.
A The training takes a number of forms but is mainly a combination of online and in person training. 4. Who provides/ produces the training?
• Manufacturer
• Someone directly employed by the trust please provide job title.
• A third party please provide the name of the provider. • Other please state.
A Training is provided in a range of ways, too many to list separately. Some is provided by in-house trainers Resuscitation and AED training for example.; some is by e-learning, either externally procured or developed in-house; some takes the form of Action Cards and/or Guides and some is provided by the manufacturer in some cases as initial training but then continued by in-house provision. 5. What types of medical devices are subject to such end user training? 6. If the training is online/e-learning, what Learning Management System LMS. does the Trust use for employee training? Examples: Moodle, Totara, Mindflash, Google Classroom
A The Trust uses Totara, a Moodle-based LMS
7. If you do use Learning Management Software, does it enable managers to see whether their staff are up to date with training?
A Yes, our LMS provides real-time compliance data to Managers and others.. 8. Is annual recertification of competence managed manually, or does your Learning Management System automatically send reminders and allocate the appropriate courses to users? A Our LMS sends automated reminders to staff who need to refresh training and allocates courses to users based on their given training profiles. Some of the refreshers are annual and others have different refresher periods. 9. How much funding has the trust allocated to e-Learning in the past year?
A No specific amount has been allocated to e-learning. We have access to some free e-learning content, we buy in ClinicalSkills.net; we develop some in-house and we buy what we can’t obtain by one of these other routes.
FOI Request
I am submitting an FOI request, requesting data on the NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression Programme previously IAPT. provided by your trust for the year 2021-22.
Please see my questions below:
How many referrals did the trust receive for the above programme and timeframe?
How many of those were self-referrals, GP referrals or other? Please list raw number for each type of referral.
How many of those total referrals started treatment?
How many of those total referrals ended treatment before competed course?
How many of those total referrals finished a completed course of treatment?
What types of therapy are offered by the trust via the programme? Please list
How many referrals were offered each type of therapy, specifically:
One-to-one in person
One-to-one online
Computer based/workbook based self-access Silvercloud etc.
Group therapy
How many referrals started each type of therapy?
How many referrals ended each type of therapy before completing course of treatment?
How many referrals finished completed course of treatment?
How long in minutes are one-to-one treatment sessions in person?
How long in minutes are one-to-one treatment sessions online?
If there are sessions of different lengths, please list them all and how many referrals were offered each session length?
How many referrals started 30-minute or course of the shortest-length treatment sessions offered?
How many referrals ended those sessions before completing the course of treatment?
How many referrals finished complete course of those sessions?
How many referrals started the longest-length treatment sessions offered? 45 minutes and above.
How many referrals ended those sessions before completing the course of treatment?
How many referrals finished complete course of those sessions?
How many sessions are offered to referrals?
If there are different numbers of sessions offered as a baseline, please list them all and how many were offered each number as a baseline?
How many referrals offered the shortest number of sessions finished treatment?
How many referrals offered the largest number of sessions finished treatment?
How many referrals offered the mean average. number of sessions finished treatment?