NHS Training for Innovation

Improving patient care and safety by ensuring best practice in healthcare technology training.

Our projects draw on NHS expertise to create low-cost, high-impact training tools to improve patient safety, clinical team work and the effective use of medical devices. These range from complete e-learning packages and DVDs, to concise booklets and single-page guides for patients and staff. We share knowledge and promote best practice through our extensive stakeholder network of healthcare professionals, academic bodies and medical device companies.

An opportunity to spread best practice in Medical Device training. . . .

For a limited period of time the TFI Medical Device Information Portfolio (MDIP), will be accepting appropriate NHS in-house developed medical device training guides and educational materials, free from the usual administration charges. Read more…

1st NAMDET Annual Conference

The National Association of Medical Device Educators and Trainers (NAMDET) are to hold their first annual conference in Birmingham on 25th June 2012. Staged at Conference Aston within Aston University, the conference theme “Top Ten Medical Device Risks for Training: Medical Device Training Now and Into the Future” will be of great interest to those involved with medical device training and education. Read more…

The NAEP show support for Making Training Easier. . .

The National Association Equipment Providers (NAEP), recently published “Training for Medical Devices: bringing people together” in their Equipment Services journal, April 2012 edition. Read more…

Orthopaedic Accolade. . .

Purely by chance, whilst browsing the web recently a TFI member came across a highly praiseworthy mention of the Training for Innovation patient information DVDs. Read more…

e4E Training programmes continue to grow

Expansion of e4E training module course programmes continues with the upgrading of some courses and the development of new programmes relating to other device categories. Read more…

Store closure. . .

Following thorough analysis from TFI’s extended pilot of the tfi store facility, we have decided to withdraw the web trading resource. Although the site was attracting increasing usage, it was found that the Information and Training product showcase was at the same time stifling the potential Read more…

Theatre Team Training Programme

Our e-learning training programme aimed at surgical theatre groups of multi-professional healthcare staff has just been completed. The theatre team training is now ready for distribution to Trusts wishing to improve team cohesion in this critical area of service delivery. Read more…

Adapting training to 21st Century needs

The above title heads an interesting piece in a 23rd February 2012, Health Service Journal supplement. The 8pp “Training and Development” Supplement focuses on learning and education delivery within today’s hieghtened value conscious NHS Healthcare environment. The Adapting training to 21st Century needs, article on page 6 of the supplement highlights the successful partnership working between e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) and NHS Training for Innovation (TFI). Read more…

Hospital Acquired Infection Control: an interesting commentary from two London researchers

Hospital acquired infections are costing the NHS an estimated £1.5 billion a year and the ongoing research work of the HaCIRIC* researchers highlights yet again the need for constant infection control and the importance of team working in healthcare improvement. Read more…

Innovation Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS

December 2011 saw the publication of “Innovation Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS”. Read more…

Lord Darzi
“For new medical technologies, we will simplify the pathway by which they pass from development into wider use, and develop ways to benchmark and monitor uptake and training needs to enable staff to respond more effectively and flexibly to this dynamic environment…”

NHS Training for Innovation

Professor the Lord Darzi, Training for Innovation founding chairman.