FAST News
NSF for Older People The Single Assessment Course Accredited!
- FAST's course on SAP has been accredited, from 27 October 2005, by the Royal College of Physicians - offering 3 CPD credits.
- The Royal College's Assessor is a leading figure in this field and sits on the British Geriatrics Society Education and Training Committee.
- The Assessor's comments include: "Knowledge very relevant to work environment and I feel it is valuable CPD...The authors state it has been reviewed and validated - I contacted [other evaluators] who confirmed this....Information clear, accurate, reflects current and best practice. Scope of material clear and informative. Appropriate for target group...Personally, I found it interesting and useful and good CPD".
Review of FAST's COPD Course published in "Work Based Learning Magazine."
Autumn 2005: Oxfordshire gets ready to launch its FAST supplied e-learning portal service!
Check on what users say about FAST e-learning!
Autumn 2005: Cumbria & Lancashire gets ready to launch its FAST supplied e-learning portal service!
Autumn 2005: Carmarthenshire launches FAST e-learning course & LMS on its Intranet!
Winter 2005: Southwark gets ready to launch its FAST supplied e-learning web-portal service!
FAST takes a lead on training in Smoking hazards:
Autumn 2005
Dear Colleague
SMOKING KILLS AND CONSUMES NHS BUDGETS -
FAST RESPONDS WITH COPD E-LEARNING COURSE
FAST has released 90-minute multi-media courses on a series of clinical subjects, the most recent of which is 'Managing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease' (COPD), including a primary focus on the dangers of smoking. This course makes a significant contribution towards understanding COPD, diagnosis, assessment and the role of patients and carers in managing the condition. This has been endorsed by the enclosed editorial shortly to be published in "Work-based Learning" Magazine.
This course accords with the British Thoracic Society and National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) standards and was developed with NRTC involvement in partnership with Healthcare Trusts in order to create a valuable learning tool to add to their training initiatives with the potential of hugely increasing participation at a fraction of normal training costs. FAST courses are simple to operate and very user friendly (most of our users having no previous experience of e-learning at all which is why they could also add some value to IT initiatives).
This e-learning course uses familiar scenarios to point out the ease of making errors and the unexpected consequences, all of which can be avoided by following good practice guidelines and streamlining procedures.
E-learning makes it possible to spread training widely within a Trust or health area giving access to all involved in delivering services to patients. The courses are offered under Multi-User Licences and made available in Web, Intranet (in both cases, with course-tracking) and/or CD-ROM Library format to provide maximum flexibility.
Contact FAST to find out more!