Initially the province of geeks, the development has had a transforming impact on many areas of everyday life. Most individuals in the developed world now have a least one email address and practically every business has their own website. More and
more commercial transactions are ‘web based’.

2012 also happens to be the 10^th birthday of the first version of the first of the courses now offered by EasiLearning. From the onset, EasiLearning have been able to provide a simple way for managers to track trainees, even when the employer does not have a Learning Management System or LMS. Many thousands of trainees have completed EasiLearning specialist courses and we are proud to be a small part of the global phenomenon that started just 20 years ago.

Learning the underpinning knowledge first, minimises time away from the pharmacy. In developing this course, EasiLearning has worked closely with ECG Training Ltd of Milton Keynes who are able to offer the practical training element anywhere in the UK. Early adopters of the course include a number of well known high street names and the National Pharmacy Association.

Further information is available by contacting EasiLearning.

 Highlights of the new version are as follows:

-          Course remains in line with updated guidelines issued by the UK Resuscitation Council in October 2010

-          Improved navigation to guide trainees through the course

-          Updated look and feel with easier to read fonts

-          Additional graphics to help explain some of the concepts in the course

-          Minor amendments suggested by users including updated incidence data and addition of recently identified causes of anaphylaxis

-          Additional assessment questions

-          Randomisation of presentation of question options – so that trainees repeating the course cannot rely on their memory of the position of the correct answer

-          Course variants for Community and Hospital based trainees

-          Lite Version for staff such as receptionists who need to be able to recognise anaphylaxis but are not qualified to give intra muscular adrenaline

-          Optional ability to see the number of retries by each trainee (Train and Track™ version only)

The course has been reviewed by some of the major users and their feedback has been incorporated into the released course.

Peter Mehta, Director of EasiLearning Ltd, commented “We look forward to shortly being able to offer Fast healthcare clinical training courses in Train and Track. The availablity of quality courses like those offered by Fast healthcare in this format will be welcomed by many of our customers”

Peter Mehta of EasiLearning said “We are aware of a number of enquiries in particular for our online anaphylaxis refresher training from individual nurses.  Fortunately the cost of completing an online course is very low – probably less than the petrol costs to drive into work. Nonetheless, I was suprised to learn from the RCN survey that an many as a third of nurses are self funding some of their training. Most of our courses are commissioned by the employer and can be accessed from anywhere as long as the individual has access to a PC and a printer. The employer can track the training either via our web Train and Track system or through an LMS such as AT Learning, Training Tracker or the nLMS”

EasiLearning courses are already running on a variety of other commercially provided LMS systems including Moodle.

Some of our courses may require to be accessed via trainees who do not have a staff record on the ESR e.g. community pharmacists, dentists etc. In this case our Train and Track web based system remains the preferred option as this allows anyone with access to the Internet to complete the training and be tracked by management without the need for any IT system other than a PC and a printer.

Roger will be concentrating initially on NHS organisations in Scotland