1. Sharing a learning infrastructure:
HE/NHS collaboration on outreach training, learning space
development and video conferencing
Ruth Fosker, Manager Learning
Infrastructure
(presented by Gary Horrocks)

2. Topography of south east London
• HE
– King’s College London
– London South Bank University
– University of Greenwich
• NHS
– 6 acute, including 1 foundation, trusts
– 2 mental health trusts
– 6 PCTs
• NHS overspend of £48 million in the sector

3. Learning infrastructure projects
• £50,000 for each of 6 boroughs to
develop multi agency learning
• £225,000 for a videoconferencing
network
• £125,000 to join up 8 NHS libraries
• £135,000 for information literacy

4. Information literacy project
• 2 outreach trainers
• Project manager
• Priority targets
– Mapping existing provision
– Baseline for evaluation
– Publicity and promotion
– Specific audiences

6. Training and outreach activities
• Community nurses in Bexley
• Admin and support staff in Lambeth
• Public library staff in Brixton
• GPs in Lambeth and Lewisham

7. Sharing learning space
• 6 different projects in each of 6
boroughs
• No new buildings

10. Sharing learning with social care
• Joint learning centre for health and
care staff at London Bridge
• Project expanded with further
£245,000 from Skills for Care
• London project with universities

11. Videoconferencing network
• Kit installed on 15 sites
• Projects owned locally

12. Videoconferencing – practical
applications
• Mandatory training
• e-learning
• Connections between GPs and hospitals
• Connections between NHS training and HE
• Resource for library trainers

13. Thank you