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UCLH CHARITY ANNUAL REPORT & ACCOUNTS 2019–20
£8.4M
Spent on projects to support training and developing staff
Training and developing staff uclhcharity.org.uk/does/training-and-developing-staff
Supporting workforce innovation
Boosting the flu campaign
Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACPs) are a new type of workforce in the Emergency Department and are usually senior nurses who can look after patients with a wide range of pathologies from the life-threatening to the self-limiting. UCLH plans to train up to 20 ACPs over the next five years and reduce the reliance on locum doctors, at the same time to become one of the largest centres for credentialed ACPs in the UK.
This proposal aimed to increase uptake of the staff flu vaccination programme at UCLH through a new, highly visible and sustained flu vaccination campaign across multiple channels to engage more staff and provide a fresh approach to the ‘get your flu jab message’.
Similarly, we are funding an exciting project to grow and develop Anaesthesia Associates (AAs). AAs are highly trained and skilled practitioners who work within an anaesthetic team under the guidance of consultant anaesthetists. With rising demand and recruitment issues more AAs are needed. This programme will establish the only London training centre and a pilot AA training programme led by expert teams at UCL and UCLH.
Supporting staff well-being We are funding a clinical psychologist to support the 300 staff in ED, AMU and ITU in order to overcome violence and aggression that they encounter, and the traumatic emotional clinical situations that they find themselves in.
Creating an Epic expert community To ensure Epic, the electronic health record system launched in 2019, is fully utilised to support UCLH’s ambition to be a digitally-enabled research hospital, this funding will aid programmes to develop super users and an expert builder community.
Extended funding for: Virtual reality (VR) to support assessment of technical skills at interview. After contributing to a 6% reduction in the vacancy rate and a 5% reduction in nursing turnover during the Queen Square pilot, we are funding 1,000 more VR assessments to be used across UCLH. The bespoke leadership development programme which will allow 24 more UCLH sisters/charge nurses to develop their skills.
