Networking
The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network is not seeking to redesign current initiatives but to pull together different strands of activity, identify gaps in provision and to work with others involved in Clinical Skills education.
In particular, we are coordinating our work with that of:
BASICS
The British Association for Immediate Care, Scotland (BASICS Scotland) aims to promote the provision of immediate care / skilled medical care in the pre-hospital setting. This primarily involves its members being available to attend emergencies that occur in their area as part of a coordinated response with the other emergency services - primarily, of course, the Scottish Ambulance Service.
BASICS Scotland courses include immediate care and emergency medicine courses for which there are 350 places, for rural practitioners, funded by NES each year. We are working with BASICS to ensure the Mobile Skills Unit complements their work, and with the goal of skills maintenance for people who've attended BASICS courses, and drawing on their expertise in delivering training in remote and rural areas.
Cuschieri Skills Centre
Technological advances and innovations require new skills to be mastered and Cuschieri Skills Centre designs programmes to facilitate these ongoing requirements. An enhanced, custom-built facility it includes interventional human anatomy, virtual reality simulations, microsurgery and a state of the art simulated operating environment. The Centre acts as a focus for multidisciplinary teaching and faculties are drawn from practising clinicians and other experts who ensure the high quality and relevance of the courses. The training is focused on intensive practical skillsrehearsal and the covers predominantly but not exclusively, endoscopic skills at three levels: Basic, Advanced and Procedure Related.
NES special initiatives
We are working with other special initiatives sanctioned by NES, with regard to the Clinical Skills elements of other initiatives, particularly Out of Hours and the Scottish Multiprofessional Maternity Development Programme. More information on NES’s initiatives can be found on the NES website.
RRHEAL
The Remote and Rural Healthcare Alliance (RRHEAL) was established in 2007 to coordinate the development of multi-disciplinary educational solutions for the remote and rural NHS workforce across Scotland. Their workplan focus for 2008-9 is on Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Rural Educational Interventions, and a rural-proofing framework for new initiatives working across a range of healthcare disciplines. We are working with RRHEAL to ensure a joined-up approach to the delivery of clinical skills education in remote and rural areas, particularly with regard to use of the mobile skills unit.
SCSN
The Scottish Clinical Skills Network (SCSN) was established in 2001 with support from NHS Education for Scotland. It is currently chaired by Dr Rona Patey, Director of the Clinical Skills Centre at Foresterhill in Aberdeen.
SCSN is a multiprofessional network which currently has a membership of over 100 individuals, drawn from healthcare professionals, mainly but not exclusively from Scotland, with an interest in the education and training of high quality clinical skills.
The SCSN seeks to bring together healthcare professionals with interests and responsibilities in the education and training of clinical skills. The network organises regular workshops on a variety of topics for members and runs a conference, held over two days, each September. Following the successful conference in Glasgow in 2009 the next conference shall take place in Dundee on 9 and 10 September 2010.
RCSEd
The Surgical Skills Laboratory at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh offers a wide variety of courses using both 'wet' and 'dry' facilities. Programmes vary in length, and range from key surgical skills training for senior medical students to complex specialist masterclasses for registrars and consultants. For more information please visit the RCSEd website.
Children and Young People's Services MKN
The Children and Young People’s Services Managed Knowledge Network (MKN) is a network and resource for all staff working in NHS Scotland with an interest in children and young people’s health. It has been developed to support NHS Education for Scotland's work in relation to the National Delivery Plan for Children and Young People’s Specialist Services in Scotland. The MKN provides a network for staff working with children and young people in NHS Scotland.
The main principles include: providing specific information and resources related to the care of children and young people; facilitating education / training and enabling practitioners to access, share and use knowledge based education on line, and; offering access to expert knowledge and support for personal and professional development.
For more information visit the Children and Young People's Services Managed Clinical Network Website (www.knowledge.scot.nhs/child-services)
