Videos

Category: Education and Training


iSPACE: Making GP Surgeries Dementia Friendly

The ‘iSPACE’ project has been introduced as an innovative, cost effective solution to enhance services in primary care for people with dementia.


Using the Forum Theatre method in healthcare education

James Wilson, lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton, explains an interactive theatre method used to encourage audience participation and learning around challenging health matters, including delivering significant news and working with dementia and psychosis.


Map of Medicine – Applying the PAIN approach to problem solving

Dr Paul Hopper, Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the role of the PAIN approach in solving problems posed by the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia.

This is one of a series of podcasts being created by Wessex HIEC to complement local Map of Medicine pathways. These pathways support GPs with appropriate guidance and timely management, investigations and referral of patients presenting in primary care with a range of conditions. The podcasts highlight key learning points around diagnosis and management.


Map of Medicine – Patient history and examination to support the diagnosis of dementia

Dr Paul Hopper, Clinical Director for Older People’s Mental Health, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the role of patient history and examination in diagnosing dementia.

This is one of a series of podcasts being created by Wessex HIEC to complement local Map of Medicine pathways. These pathways support GPs with appropriate guidance and timely management, investigations and referral of patients presenting in primary care with a range of conditions. The podcasts highlight key learning points around diagnosis and management.


An End of Life Care project in Dorset

The End of Life Care Project was delivered in 2013 with Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust & the Weldmar Hospicecare Trust after the outgoing South West SHA identified that acute trusts had room for improvement in their end of life care.

DCHFT and Weldmar delivered a project around: 1) multi-professional communication skills training in 12 workshops for all clinicians working in the trust, and 2) the establishment of an End of Life Care Champions Group for registered and non-registered healthcare workers in the trust to attend study days and learning & practice days to see EOL care taking place in another setting.


Community Pharmacy COPD Screening and Support Services – Starting the Conversation

A series of short videos to help pharmacy teams find the right people, and the right words, to appropriately recruit to the Community Pharmacy COPD Screening Service.

Created with the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Local Pharmaceutical Committee.