Following the success of our previous events, our ‘Be a Better Paramedic’ Student Paramedic Conference returns for another day of engaging, challenging and interesting CPD.
Join us on Saturday 2nd March 2024 for this fantastic event.
NEW in the SW – NHS Paramedic Apprenticeship – Direct entry
Start dates of April 2024 and Sep 2024
The Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare provides HCPs with time, support & training to lead digital transformations.
The Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare provides HCPs with time, support & training to lead digital transformations.
The Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare provides HCPs with time, support & training to lead digital transformations.
The Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare provides HCPs with time, support & training to lead digital transformations.
SW AHPs, AHP Support Workers, & Students – HEE SW invites you to our next SW AHP MASSIVE conference & networking event. 23rd May Exeter
The PARAMEDIC-3 research team invite you to attend their free Pre-hospital cardiac arrest CPD webinar on Monday 8th August 2022, 19:00-20:20
The SW Clinical Senate currently have 2 vacancies for a Professional-in-Training on the Senate Council.
Applications are welcome from doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, pharmacists, dentists, and trainees from other specialisms that are currently represented on the Senate Council i.e. medical scientists.
The Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) are working with Health Education England (HEE) to build on existing examples of good practice in preceptorship and have opened consultation.
The National Education and Training (NETS) Survey is back for 2022 and is open to all trainees and students working and training in healthcare services across England.
SWASFT are upgrading to Office 365 including MS teams. Want to know how to use all the new features and find out where your old shortcuts went? Free bitesize training is available
Places are still available on a selection of HEI modules These places will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis and can be booked by contacting CPD Admin. A list of the modules with available places on them will be released via our upcoming email campaigns for SWAST CPD. *Please be advised…
New Clinical supervision page has been launched with more information for staff and students in SWASFT – click here for more
The Mental Health Education For Ambulance Services Conference 2022, will be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, Milton Keynes on Thursday 27th October. Reserve your place today to join in person.
Young Black Men Mental Health Crisis Tools- Guides Supporting Young Black Men. These useful guides can be accessed free of charge.
SWASFT e-learning PEd course handbook now available!
The PARAMEDIC-3 research team invite you to attend their free Pre-hospital cardiac arrest CPD webinar on Monday 8th August 2022, 19:00-20:20
Health Education England South West Multi-Professional Educational Conference – For all multi-professional educators, trainers and learners – Oct 14th 2022 – Virtual & Face to face – Taunton racecourse – Abstract submissions open
The questionnaire is aimed at any individual currently working with people experiencing a mental health crisis and will help us to understand more about this workforce and their training and development needs.
This session aims to inform on the use of the ReSPECT form with an added Q&A session, and will touch on similar forms used in other areas.
INTERNATIONAL PARAMEDICS DAY
The first ever International Paramedics Day will be held on 8th July 2022 to recognise and celebrate the work carried out by paramedics and first responders around the world.
Mental health crisis workforce questionnaire *The closing date for the questionnaire is Friday 29th of July at 17:00* Funding will be allocated and training put in place as a direct result of the findings. This questionnaire is aimed at any individual who currently works with people experiencing a mental health crisis and will help us to…
The CPD staff survey for 2022 is now open for you to have you say on how you feel about the many opportunities we have on offer. Completing this survey will give you a higher chance of seeing more of what you would really like to see us advertise. This could be either more…
Health Education England (HEE) are looking to improve future communications with all Student Paramedics, Graduates and NQP’s. If you are able to offer some of your time to complete a short, anonymous survey this will provide valuable insight to shape these improvements. Improved communication could be used for instance to disseminate changes in:…
The Topol Programme for Digital Fellowships in Healthcare provides HCPs with time, support & training to lead digital transformations.
Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme (CDEP) are pleased to announce the return of Hypo-Awareness Week for 2021. This awareness week is set to commence from Monday 13th September to Sunday 19th September. Hypos can be common in people living with insulin- or sulphonylurea-treated diabetes. They are a nuisance at best, but are often unpleasant…
There are now more bookable training opportunities and E-Learning opportunities now available for the Gloucestershire county ONLY. Staff who serve Gloucestershire patients in the Hub fall into this category. Please bear in mind that it is not us that provide these training opportunities, but Gloucestershire County itself! Whilst Gloucestershire County Council are not able to…
These advertised courses are only for staff who work in Gloucestershire as they are funded externally by Gloucestershire-based organisations (this is their stipulation). Whilst Gloucestershire County Council are not able to deliver our regular face to face training (yet), they have been actively working to source and develop resources to deliver live via online platforms. The following…
Frequent Callers Health & Science Research UK video presentation The Trust’s Frequent Caller Team have been invited to the Health and Science Research UK Conference this year. Below is the pre-recorded session related to High Intensity Users. We hope this will give you an insight into work being done nationally relating to service users that…
SWAST & UWE collaborative working Cohorts 6 & 8 of SWAST Dip HE (ECA to Paramedic) students were about to reach the end of their course when COVID 19 threw a spanner in the works. UWE had to be closed just when they were about to attend and complete their final OSCEs. SWAST and…
Health Education England are hosting a multi-professional free event to share good practice from across the South West region. The event will take place from 09:30-16:00 on Wednesday 17th July 2019 at Park House, 1200 Parkway, Bristol, BS34 8YU. Share examples of good practice in effective communication focussing on the training and education environment Some…
‘Living well with cancer’ This FREE session from Macmillan Cancer care is open to all patients who would like to: ✓ Have a better understanding of cancer related fatigue and how to manage it ✓ Understand more about how you can make small changes to your lifestyle to feel more in control and improve your…
We are playing around with setting up an email subscription service. The idea being that will pick up new posts and content as it is added, and email you if you sign up to a mailing list. This is a test post to see if the email subscription service plug in will will pick it…
The Pre-hospital Evaluation of Sensitive Troponin (PRESTO) study If you are a Paramedic and convey patients to Musgrove Park, Southmead, Royal Devon & Exeter or Derriford Emergency Departments you can participate in the PRESTO study. Chest pain is the most common reason for emergency hospital admission with 1.3 million patients presenting with chest pain in England…
Zero Suicide Alliance The Zero Suicide Alliance is a collaborative of National Health Service trusts, businesses and individuals who are all committed to suicide prevention in the UK and beyond. The alliance is ultimately concerned with improving support for people contemplating suicide by raising awareness of and promoting FREE suicide prevention training which is accessible…
A new Clinical decision support tool from BMJ including evidence-based research, guidelines and expert opinion is now available to all SWASFT staff and students on placement from April 2019 for three years (purchased by Health Education England). To access please visit https://bestpractice.bmj.com/oafed You will need a SWASFT NHS Athens account to access. Once logged in you…
Mind’s independent research shows that members of the emergency services are even more at risk of experiencing a mental health problem than the general population, but are less likely to seek support. Mind is delivering the Blue Light Programme to provide mental health support for emergency services staff and volunteers from ambulance, fire, police and search…
The Results of AIRWAYS-2 – What does it all mean? The AIRWAYS-2 team are hosting a free educational event in London for all the paramedics who contributed to the success of the AIRWAYS-2 research study on Wednesday 26 September at Cavendish Venues in London. The day will include the results of AIRWAYS-2, the results of the Pragmatic Airway…
Masters Loan
You can also apply for a loan to study an MSc . This type of loan can be used to complete a Masters program in most areas. You will need to check your eligibility , and it will need to be a full Masters course. (it can be part time).
NIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula invite you to attend their free Making Sense of Health Research 1 day Conference on Friday 16th November 2018 at Buckfast Abbey Dr David Nunan, the lead tutor for the internationally renowned Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine course provided by the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine, University of Oxford, will be this year’s key note speaker. To find out how our…
We’re excited to have launched the brand new SWAST CPD website. The new site includes changes to navigation, with improved menu and filtering functions that direct you to the information most relevant to you on both mobile and desktop versions. We’ve also improved the structure of our content and simplified the booking process so you’ll get…
The SWASFT staff, friends & family survey is now open until 29 June 2018.
Visit membra.co.uk/swasft1 to provide your feedback and help improve our services.
A range of resources are freely accessible to all staff on the Emergency Medicine Cheltenham and Gloucester (EM CAGE) Website.
Visit the Distance learning FOAMed Page here
http://emcage.net/
Jointly commissioning by Gloucestershire CCG and Gloucestershire County Council, ‘Risking Happiness’ was created by the Reckless Kettle Theatre Company and The Roses Theatre in 2015. The characters and story of the play are fictitious, but the process of writing it drew from real people, situations and experiences. The purpose of the play has been to…
Created by nurses at Guy’s and St Thomas’ to raise awareness of dementia among staff, Barbara’s Story has changed attitudes to dementia in hospitals across the world. Barbara’s Story follows a fictional patient who has symptoms of dementia, and explores the challenges she faces when she comes into contact with NHS staff at home and…
Continuing professional development (CPD) is the way in which you continue to learn and develop throughout your career, ensuring your skills and knowledge are up to date enabling you to practice safely and effectively. CPD is not just formal courses. A CPD activity is any activity from which you learn and develop such as; Work-based learning. For example, reflecting…
What is FOAM? FOAM is Free Open Access Medical Education; a collection of resources, a community and an ethos. The FOAM community spontaneously emerged from the collection of constantly evolving, collaborative and interactive open access medical education resources being distributed on the web. FOAM is independent of platform or media — it includes blogs, podcasts,…
OSCEstop is a free, one-stop online resource for comprehensive notes on medical school finals OSCE exams OSCEstop aims to help healthcare professionals improve their clinical examination and practical skills. Notes on all of the essential skills and detail on all of the stations likely to come up in OSCE examinations are provided to help you acquire and maintain…
The West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) are working with all members of the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative to encourage the use of a single national early warning score; ‘NEWS’, across the region. All the acute trusts, out-of-hours GP services, mental health trusts, community service providers and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in the West…
Some great FREE E-learning on a wide range of subjects. Levels to suit ALL staff! The Khan Academy’s mission is to provide a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere on wide range of subjects. It offers a personalised learning resource with practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalised learning on subjects including Advanced Placement Biology,…
Who are CAHPR? We are a network of researchers from a broad range of allied health professions (AHP), including Paramedics, who have joined together to support and develop AHP research, strengthen evidence of the value and impact of our professions and enable our professions to speak with one voice on research issues. We are supported…
