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Virtual College is one of the UK's leading providers of total solutions within the e-learning arena.
Virtual College enhances the traditional learning solution through the careful integration of technology.
The total solution approach embraces all aspects of the learning experience and embraces actual programme/qualification delivery. This provides a blended delivery solution.
Virtual College has developed a focused product range that helps businesses improve their performance by adopting new ways of learning.
The City and Guilds Accredited Productive Leader e-learning programmes are being launched by a joint venture between Virtual College, leaders and experts in the field of e-learning and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
The course called 'Right from the Start with HENRY' has been developed to provide parents and carers with detailed information on how they can help provide their family with a healthy lifestyle right from the start.
The Care Quality Commission, the body responsible for checking that Hospitals, Care Homes and Care Services meet stringent Government standards, hasrecently tightened its regulation of private and NHS dental services.
Training provider, Virtual College, reveals the finalists for the organisation's 4th Lean Healthcare Academy Annual Awards to be held at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds on Wednesday 8th February 2012.
Online training pioneer, Virtual College of Ilkley, West Yorkshire, is experiencing major growth during its 15th anniversary year and is now offering more than 100 online courses with the total number of registered e-learners across all courses now hitting 360,000 – and is growing at an average rate of around 3,000 per month.
Geraldine Granath, the Head of People Development and Teaching for NHS South of Tyne and Wear in the north east of England, is a key member of the team which designed and brought forward the new self care e-learning module in partnership with the Healthcare e-Academy prior to its launch in 2009.
Bradford Council’s Occupational Therapy service is adopting lean strategies through a public and private sector partnership designed to streamline working practices and improve across-the-board service delivery.
Sue Speak, Head of Lean Improvement at Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, reports that Lean principles - similar to those used widely in industry to simplify operational procedures and boost productivity - are paying major dividends and having a big impact on patient care.
Virtual College in Ilkley, UK, has launched a new e-learning module relating to urinary catheterisation - widely regarded as one of the major causes of healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs) in the NHS.
The Lean Healthcare Academy’s second training centre has been launched and will serve the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust’s first 'Lean Champions' have gained Business Improvement Techniques (BIT) NVQ Level 2 qualifications which have been delivered widely in manufacturing to streamline working practices, boost productivity and cut costs.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, has won the ′Partnership with the NHS’ award at the Medilink Yorkshire and Humber Innovation Day and Healthcare Business Awards, held at The Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK.
The words ′lean’ and ′healthcare’ are being increasingly drawn together with more and more ′lean’ management initiatives and programmes being introduced around the UK.
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust has made a positive start in tackling its first major project following the adoption of ′Lean’ thinking as it strives to streamline working practices, cut waiting times and improve the quality of patient care and safety.
Airedale NHS Trust is to step up delivery of ′Lean’ principles that have already transformed the trust’s hospital working practices, reduced waiting times and improved patient care and safety.
The Lean Healthcare Academy, based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire is preparing to roll out its 18 Weeks blueprint nationally to other NHS Trusts and healthcare sector providers across the UK.
A pioneering public and private sector partnership has reduced waiting times for 'small for date' baby scans at a West Yorkshire hospital from up to six weeks to within 24 hours.
