History Taking with Consultation Skills

At ECG, we are committed to providing training that healthcare staff actually want and need. As a result, we are creating a History Taking with Consultation Skills Training course. The aim of this course is to provide clinicians with the opportunity to gain more knowledge on how to take a history and effectively communicate with patients. We intend to cover history-taking structures, open and closed questioning, non-verbal cues, rapport building, empathy, active listening, how mental state and mental health conditions can affect your interaction, and common pitfalls.

Genomics in pharmacy: an introduction to person-centred consultations

Genomics is a form of personalised medicine that is transforming healthcare. Pharmacy professionals are well-placed to play a key role as genomics moves into mainstream clinical care, by supporting people with information about genomics and how this can contribute to medicines optimisation.

Supporting people living with frailty

This programme provides pharmacy professionals working in any pharmacy practice setting with an introduction to supporting people living with frailty. The aim of this programme is to develop your knowledge and skills to enable you to describe what frailty means, recognise people living with frailty and offer them appropriate support.

Tackling Loneliness and Social Isolation

The Learning and Social Isolation (LSI) course is focussed on highlighting the impact of chronic loneliness as a serious health concern and how we can all help to tackle loneliness with the interactions we have with patients and the public. It supports the call to action from the Jo Cox Commission to ‘equip people with information about the potential triggers for loneliness and ensure they know where to go for support’ and consists of e-learning, two animations, two podcasts and a resource guide.

Strategies for Assessment and Feedback to Support Clinical Practice Level 7 module

This Strategies for Assessment and Feedback to Support Clinical Practice Level 7 module offers a flexible method of learning to meet the educational and development needs of practitioners who are involved in teaching and assessing individuals or groups in a variety of health care environments.

The purpose of this module is to enable health care practitioners to develop their knowledge and skills in creating innovative assessment strategies appropriate to support learners in their clinical environment appropriately aligned with learning outcomes. They will also develop an understanding of the different methods of feedback and gain skills in delivering feedback in a variety of situations.

Ethical Issues in Long Term Conditions Level 7 module

This Ethical Issues in Long Term Conditions Level 7 module contributes to the development of knowledge and understanding of the ethical principles that should underpin clinical decision-making. There will be emphasis on ethical frameworks that can be applied to a range of common ethical dilemmas that healthcare professionals face in their day to day activities.

Students will have the opportunity to engage in debate and discussion of some selected clinical scenarios such as the denial of long term oxygen therapy to those who continue to smoke, truth telling and killing and letting die. This module enables the student to study ethical issues within the context of healthcare, and specifically in people with long term conditions.

Through a series of formal presentations, lectures and self-directed study, students will be able to articulate the rationale for a particular course of action. Clinical scenarios and personal reflection from students will form the basis for debate and discussion.

Frailty as a Long Term Condition Level 7 module

Person-centred approaches to care will be at the centre of this Frailty as a Long Term Condition Level 7 module's content.

Successful students will develop as leaders in the delivery of person-centred care, and progress their skills and knowledge in relation to the complexity of living with frailty. It will enhance your knowledge, understanding, skills and attributes in relation to current treatment, management and risk avoidance of different aspects and challenges of frailty.

The importance of excellent communication skills and effective collaborative working will be emphasised and explored in relation to the person living with frailty. Current key legislation, local, national and international drivers will be explored and applied to the management within your organisation. You will also critically review the interface of health and social care.

Applying Learning Theories to Support Clinical Practice Level 7 Module

This Applying Learning Theories to Support Clinical Practice Level 7 module will enable health care practitioners to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to provide sound educational experiences for learners in a clinical environment. During the course, you will develop the competence to design, plan and manage learning experiences for groups of learners or learners on a one to one basis.

This module offers a flexible method of learning to meet the educational and development needs of practitioners who are involved in teaching individual and/or groups in any public, private or voluntary health care environment.

Successful learners will typically:

Weight management for adults: understanding the management of obesity

This e-learning programme will help improve your knowledge about the prevalence of overweight and obesity, the structure of weight management services in England and the structure and requirements of a tier two commissioned lifestyle weight management service.

It provides you with practical advice on how you can support patients on their own weight loss journey, including how to initiate the difficult discussion around weight management.

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

  • outline the epidemiology of obesity
  • use appropriate equipment and techniques to measure and categorise a person's degree of overweight or obesity
  • describe the determinants and health risks of being overweight or obese and the benefits of maintaining a healthy weight
  • assess a person's readiness to lose weight and willingness to modify behaviour to achieve and maintain an appropriate target weight
  • describe a range of motivational and behavioural techniques to support weight management
  • discuss the role of diet, physical activity, medicines and surgery in the management of weight and provide practical healthy lifestyle advice
  • select the most appropriate intervention or referral pathway to other primary/secondary care specialist services where necessary, in line with local and national weight management strategies
  • describe and implement a community pharmacy weight management service.

Travel health - understanding and supporting travellers' wellbeing - GPhC

This learning programme is intended to help you develop your understanding of the health needs of travellers, and how you can support their wellbeing. You will explore the various risks that travellers face, from common ailments, such as sunburn and travellers’ diarrhoea to malaria and dengue fever.

On completion of all aspects of this learning programme you should be able to:

  • understand how the actions and attitudes of the traveller can influence the risks of travel
  • use the appropriate resources to find the latest up-to-date information on disease risks in a specific country
  • provide tailored advice to travellers by identifying the individuals risks that may affect their safety and health
  • understand and advise on the effects that travel can have on those with existing health conditions
  • develop the service you provide to travellers, identifying those at greatest risk of travel-related illness and infecions.