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Background - £30m(DH) Bidding for the £30m.... • June 2010 – DH Press Release – Several groups & meetings to discuss a regional way forward • Core Group Established – Motivate, advise, support & co-ordinate regional approach – Numerous teleconferences • Submission of Bids to the Regional Network – Bids Independently reviewed by Dr Jane Coad & team – Peer reviewed at the WMPPCN meeting – Combined into one large regional submission • September 2010 – again …… Outcome • • • • Successful - £4.5m 45 actual awarded of the 55 Region with the most bids submitted Region with the most funded projects around training, education, care, transition and decision making • Collated and reviewed under the West Midlands Paediatric Palliative Care Network umbrella • Oct 10 – March 11 Outcome Over £1.4 million to Coventry University across a programme of 7 projects Supported by Acorns Children’s Hospice and one with West Midlands Ambulance Service Included: 1. Two projects focused around developing an elearning approach to meet needs of staff caring for this group of children and their families (CELE) 2. An evaluation of the West Midlands DH projects 3. A paramedic decision making tool 4. A long term ventilation training needs survey 5. A series of learning events (Steering group; launches) 6. With Birmingham Children’s Hospital – a communication tool kit for CYP with learning disabilities Our Team Academic and Clinical team E-Learning Technologists Prof Jane Coad Collette Clay Dr Lynn Clouder Natalie Mills Kerry Gaskin Richard Flint Maria Cable Annie Wing Paul Hammond Annette Roebuck David Widdas Sean Graham Dr Carol Chamley Francis Edwards Daiseikh Ruparelia Nikki Fitzmaurice Laura Strumidlo Dr Maggi Savin-Baden Jacqueline Stretton Annie Pettifer Cathy Tombs Reena Patel Penny Parrott Anne Dickinson Patricia Bluteau Sally Spencer Imran Ali Jamie Cargill Jo Watson Steven Ball Richard Mupanemunda Alex Philpott Jess Bishop Project support – Marie Krumins, Adam Moore, Nicky Ashley, Suzanne Hilton, Dave Guest, Matt Dyer, Gail Williams, Sheetal Gohil Our elearning programme A suite of seven E-learning modules have been designed to provide learning focused on improving the lives of children with palliative and complex care needs and their families To be delivered to wide range of health, social care, education professionals and lay people Design of the programme? • The programme has been designed by a team of academic, specialist technologists and clinical professionals in partnership with stakeholder input • Unique delivery and assessment style as it is delivered and assessed entirely online • National Partners have included Acorns Children’s Hospice, WellChild, Connected, West Midlands Paediatric Palliative Care Network (WMPPCN) and ACT Design of the programme A range of multi-media and reusable learning objects • Case studies • Service user involvement • Student discussion • Debate • Workbooks Excellent governance and QA – Pilot from Birmingham City University and Warwick University evaluation (Dr Ann Jackson) Student support Competitive costing Creative Days! Module 1 = Introduction to CYP palliative and complex care • The first module is at UG Degree level • Aims to provide an introduction to the palliative and complex care needs of children and young people (CYP) and an introduction to the Association for Children with Life Threatening or Terminal Conditions and their Families (ACT) care pathways • £650 per UG module Progressing along …. The Postgraduate Certificate in Children and Young People’s Palliative and Complex Care comprises of three modules at Masters level A further three Masters level modules have been planned and prepared as stand alone modules to be offered within the University’s CPD portfolio £540 per module PG Cert Perspectives on Palliative and Complex care for CYP & families M34CPD Engaging CYP with Palliative and complex care needs M35CPD Interprofessional work based learning M12CPD Second Life – Central City Associated modules Medicines Management in Palliative and Complex Care for CYP M37CPD Palliative & end of life care for neonates M36CPD Communication in relation to CYP M38CPD Stand alone modules Aim 2. Project resources • Patchwork text – Sean Graham • Drag and drop quiz – Daisekh Ruparelia • Jack’s Story - Paul Hammond Patchwork Text Drug Chart Resource Jack’s Story Aim 3. Group work activity • Individually, identify a concept or a piece of learning that you would like to develop into a resource - you have 5 minutes. • Share your ideas with your group (1 minute each) • Choose ONE resource that you would like to develop as a group • Nominate a spokesperson to report back to the large group Questions The development of your resource will be aided by addressing some basic questions: • Who is in your team with respect to expertise? • Who is missing? • What do you want to achieve? (LOs?) Additional questions • Who is the resource for? (discipines/level) • How interactive would you like it to be? • What resources would you need to do this money, background knowledge, expertise • What challenges will you meet? • What are the added benefits to the project? Sharing ideas • What have you learned about team work? • Challenges? • Benefits? Summary of main points And finally ……. Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision………… It is the fuel that allows ‘ordinary’ people to attain ‘extra-ordinary’ results………. Andrew Carnegie Acknowledgements For further information go to: www.coventry.ac.uk/yppalliativecare Author of presentation: David Widdas Contributors: Jane Coad Thank you to all our team, Richard Flint DH, WMPPCN, Acorns Kerry Children’s Gaskin Ruparelia Hospice and all Daiseikh our partners