E-learning for Healthcare in the UK

CLIX has been chosen for one of most significant LMS projects in the UK in recent years by the e-Learning for Healthcare team at the Department for Health. With a vision for over 2 million users the project’s aim is to drive the expansion of e-LfH from delivering a single project to delivering multiple e-learning solutions across the NHS and international markets.

The e-LfH team were looking for an enterprise scale LMS to be hosted by the supplier and integrated with NHS wide corporate networks and systems. One of their major concerns was to solve the problem that "Experience to date has shown that the regular interface of most LMS packages is difficult for novice/non-dedicated users to navigate and exploit."

IMC has long claimed the intuitive usability of its software products as a unique feature and the award of the e-LfH project confirms us in this view. The review of the market for highly capable and user friendly learning management systems left IMC’s LMS software CLIX the clear winner.

A major feature of this ambitious project is the provision of wide ranging technical and consultancy services by IMC to help the e-LfH team turn the project’s vision into reality.

A brief review of the project’s scope illustrates its importance to the provision of professional and accessible learning for specialist staff in the UK’s National Health Service, one of the world’s largest employers.

E-LfH is committed to a current portfolio of work that envisages the delivery of 9 major e-learning projects, delivering 6000 hours of e-learning materials to 100,000 users in the period 2007 – 2011.  These materials will address, primarily, the educational needs and requirements of medical professionals, NHS staff and associated disciplines (including, but not exclusively Social Care, Primary Care, Prison Service and other groups with a responsibility for care).  An initial audience forecast is for around 500,000 users by 2010 rising to 3 million users by 2020.

After exhaustive development and testing the first pilot projects are due to be imminently launched. IMC is proud to be part of such a significant undertaking by the UK Government on behalf of training specialist staff both in UK and abroad.