Education and research are at the heart of what we do at the APM, and e-ELCA forms a cornerstone of that.
e-ELCA is a national e-learning programme developed by Health Education England: e-Learning for Healthcare in partnership with the APM. e-ELCA aims to enhance the training and education of the health and social care workforce, ensuring that well-informed, high-quality care can be delivered by confident and competent staff and volunteers to support people wherever they are.
It’s now freely available to everyone who supports those at or towards the end of life and their families. This includes professionals working in hospices, healthcare settings and the community. Content is written by specialists in palliative care, including many members of the APM. Dr. Sarah Hanrott is the current APM lead for the work.
e-ELCA is universally praised, with the only criticism being that people don’t know about it. A communications plan is in place to increase awareness of the programme. APM members, who have contributed hugely to the development of the 180 sessions, are also key to making sure that e-ELCA is used to its full potential.
Learn more about this exciting new session here.
Flexible learning, for anyone, anywhere, at any time.
There are over 180 sessions in 9 topic areas:
- Advance care planning
- Assessment in end-of-life care
- Communications skills
- Symptom management, comfort and wellbeing
- Specific conditions and contexts
- Social care
- Bereavement care
- Spiritual care
- Specialist care
e-ELCA also offers learning paths: short courses collated from relevant resources to help you to quickly access the sessions suitable for you and your role.
e-ELCA resources can also be used to collate bespoke learning paths to meet the specific learning needs of individual Trusts or organisations. These can be hosted on your organisation’s LMS or ESR.
How can I access e-ELCA?
e-ELCA is available to all.
If you are already registered with the elfh Hub, click here to access the program or you can register for access.
If you do not have an NHS email, use any personal or work email address. If your “place of work” is not listed in that section, please type “unknown” in the box and select that option in order to
complete the “Registration Details” section.
e-ELCA is also available via OpenAthens, ESR and eIntegrity.
e-ELCA on the Road
You may have met the e-ELCA team at various events and conferences in recent years.
We look forward to attending more conferences and events in the future and would love to see you there.
Communication
We also regularly include an article in the APM bulletin and disseminate this copy through other sources like HospiceUK and HEE.