STARs Website Clare Adams Project Manager

What?  E-learning resource  Health and social care staff  Freely accessible via worldwide web  No login process  Based around patient scenarios  Interactive materials

 3 levels available:  Stroke Core Competencies  All staff  Advancing Stroke Modules  Registered staff  Thrombolysis Masterclass  Senior staff

Why? CHD & Stroke Strategy 2002 / 2004 organised training schemes for non-medical staff to develop both general and specialist skills in CHD and stroke care.

NES – Stroke Core Competencies 2005 Survey undertaken on implementation

CHSS / NHS Board partnership training 7 NHS Boards Part 1 Course aligned to the Core Competencies

Scotland wide access to stroke training  Anywhere  Anytime  Certificates for CPD

How?  Funding from Scottish Government  Partnership between CHSS, NES and University of Edinburgh  Started with Core Competencies site  Recruited stroke experts from across Scotland as authors  Launched May 2008

 2008 NACS identified training for staff on stroke units as priority  Core Competencies site well received  Survey of topics for Advancing Modules  Recruited stroke experts from across Scotland as authors

Advancing Modules  Thrombolysis  Physiological monitoring  Feeding & nutrition  Continence  Management of physical complications  Launched Sept 2009  Secondary prevention  Emotional impact  Cognition & perception  Resuming daily activities  Physical management  Launch Sept 2010

Thrombolysis Masterclass

Monitoring usage 1.Google analytics 2.Certificate database 3.On line evaluation

1. Google analytics  117, 857 hits  56,910 unique users

2. Certificate database  Successfully completed tests  15,335 certificates awarded to date  51% of these to learners in Scotland  Profession  Board area  Place of work  Stroke unit  AfC banding  Student

3. On line evaluation  10% completion rate  Personal and professional feedback  Comments / suggestions

Accessibility to website  Initially a considerable problem  PCs not have software loaded  NHS firewalls  Survey of all stroke units in Scotland  Simple to rectify

Drivers NHS QIS Stroke Standards  1.7 The service is able to demonstrate that any member of health and social care staff who has been working in the stroke unit for more than three months has undergone stroke training relevant to their role, and as minimum has received training in the NES stroke core competencies.

Drivers “NHS Boards should ensure that their stroke MCN is providing in-service training opportunities such as STARs to staff involved in stroke care.”

The future  Certificate database  Updates  STARs 4: Website for carers  STARs 5: Further 5 advancing modules  Acknowledgements