ILX Enables Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS

2008/04/17 16:21

Press Release from:

ILX

ILX Enables Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS) To Save Significant Funds And Improve Training Provision & Delivery To 25,000 NHS Users

…ILX e-learning courses enable the UK’s largest HIS to support staff development and career progression within the NHS…

Thursday 17th March, ILX Group plc (ILX), the training services company, has enabled Sussex Health Information Service (HIS) to achieve significant savings while greatly enhancing training provision for its 400 staff. Sussex HIS is the UK’s largest HIS and is using flexible e-learning courses delivered

online via ILX’s Best Practice Portal to aid staff progression, and support front line carers to deliver enhanced patient care.

The portal framework has enabled Sussex HIS to create a unique learning pathway to project management, stipulating that users must progress through the APM Introductory Certificate (APMIC), through PRINCE2™ Foundation to Managing Successful Programmes (MSP™) Foundation. This approach ensures that staff can offer sound project management skills and methodology which in turn supports front line NHS carers to deliver enhanced patient care through the application of the latest technology.

Wendy Dearing, Senior Lead for Training, Change & Process Continuity, and Head of Education Training Development (EDT) for Sussex HIS said, “Delivering best practice e-learning courses via the ILX portal has really enhanced our training provision. We now have central visibility of the access, progress and performance of our 25,000 users, based over 17 sites. Access to courses is improved, and an internal survey has shown that our pass rate is still as high as it was with the classroom-based approach. The significant cost savings and the ability to provide more training to greater numbers of staff is a huge bonus, especially for an organisation such as ours.”