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On 2 May 2013, 210 healthcare and social services professionals will graduate from the second and third cohorts of Scotland’s Dementia Champions Programme. This is the first cohort to include socia...
Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond, MSP, will experience at first hand today (24 April) how 3-D technologies and interactive anatomy can work together to improve training for healthcare profes...
Providing advice and care for patients with acute dental problems – new guidance
The Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP) has today launched its guidance, ‘Management of Acute Dental Problems’. The guidance, available in three formats, encourages consistent...
Learning Disabilities Nursing - New Educational Frameworks Launched
26 March 2013 saw Michael Matheson, Minister for Public Health, launch two new learning disabilities nursing frameworks - NHS Education for Scotland‘s Pre-registration Framework for Learning Disabi...
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has been awarded funding by the Scottish Government to lead on delivery of a programme supporting the development of Staff, Associate Specialist and Specialty Grade...
Launch of Pharmacist Assistant Training Programme
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the National Pharmacy Association (NPA) have launched a new distance learning resource for Pharmacist Assistants employed in the community pharmacy setting in S...
NES receives Shine Programme Award
A multidisciplinary group in NHS Education for Scotland (NES) focused on Primary Care is one of 30 project teams from across the UK whose innovative idea to improve the quality of healthcare is bei...
Life-like hi-tech mannequins to help train healthcare staff
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Alex Neill, today (7 February 2013) officially opened a state of the art medical training centre at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert . NHS Educati...
Improving the Translation of Knowledge and Information into Healthcare Practice
Edinburgh is set to host an international conference on 7 November – Improving Quality in Healthcare: Translating Evidence into Practice – which will bring together international experts on healthc...
British Psychological Society - Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) Scotland Event
A minister in the Holyrood government has spoken of the important part that evidence-based psychology interventions will play in implementing Scotland’s new mental health strategy.
Survey Commences into Recruitment and Retention of Healthcare Workers
A multi-national project aimed at finding solutions to the persistent problem of difficulties in recruiting and retaining high quality healthcare workers for the remote rural areas of Northern Euro...
Winners announced for Scotland’s Dementia Awards 2012!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the first ever Scotland’s Dementia Awards: a partnership between Alzheimer Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Health Scotland and Scottish Social ...
Making Communication Even Better
A new online educational resource aimed at improving communications skills of health and social care staff is launched today (5 September) at the Allied Health Professions Conference 2012, “AHPs as...
Online Module on Child Protection
All staff working in the NHS need to know how to protect children. NHS Education for Scotland (NES), the national body responsible for educating and training healthcare staff, has developed an onl...
Flying Start® Goes 'Down Under'
Innovative web-based support developed by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and available in Scotland since 2006 for newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals in Scotland is n...
Today sees the launch of the first ever Scotland’s Dementia Awards: a partnership between Alzheimer Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Health Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council. T...
Breaking the Chain of Infection in Healthcare
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has today updated and re-released ‘Breaking the Chain’ - the hugely successful DVD training resource developed around Standard Infection Control Precautions which ...
Medical Education Research Consortium Launch
1 May 2012 sees the launch of the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) /University of Dundee Medical Education Research Consortium. The formal launch will be undertaken by Michael Matheson MSP, Minist...
Dental Prescribing App Launched
Dental Prescribing, an app for use on iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch®, is launched today by the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme (SDCEP), part of NHS Education for Scotland (NES). B...
Midwives in NHSScotland are set to benefit from innovative approaches to learning and development through the use of serious computer gaming and visual software as well as participation in interact...
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