The Birth of Blue Stream Academy: Home of eLearning Think about what mandatory training involves. First of all you need to find a suitable course, make sure there’s available spaces and check the date. How will staff members get there? Who will cover their shifts? And how much does all this cost?!
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t Blue Stream Academy we recognised these issues and began to develop a solution for healthcare organisations that would make some of their compliance requirements a little easier.
to log on to their training profile from anywhere with an internet connection, effectively turning the world into a classroom.
Blue Stream Academy was founded in 2012 with a small experienced team who were versed in providing healthcare training. The key aim was to provide GP practices with a training solution that would save them time and money without compromising on quality of care. It began by creating a system that provided all staff members in a GP practice with relevant and required training, along with a Management of Information System (MIS) to track training and compliance. We worked with local GP practices, who still use our system today, to find out what they would like to see on the system and if they had any specific requirements. The practice managers requested a training solution that would allow staff to complete training without the practice having to close. The system we developed allows any staff member
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Following our success within the GP sector, we realised that other healthcare organisations were facing the same training and reporting issues, so we decided to develop solutions for nursing and care homes, urgent care providers, hospices and dentists. A key facet of Blue Stream Academy’s success is our sales and customer support team; a bubbly, friendly group of individuals who are focused on
Healthcare professionals also made suggestions about features and specific modules that would be beneficial to them. Ultimately, Blue Stream Academy created a system for practice managers that was developed by practice managers.
