Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Professional Education (CETL4HealthNE)
Lead Institution: University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, Collaborative Partners: University of Durham, University of Northumbria at
Newcastle, University of Sunderland, University of Teeside, County Durham and Tees Valley Strategic Health Authority,
NHSU North East Region, North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Trust, North Tyneside Primary Care Trust, Northumberland Healthcare NHS Trust,
Tyne and Wear Strategic Health Authority.
Director: Professor Geoff Hammond, Contact: Lesley Neave, Tel: +44 ( 0) 191 246 4537, Email: cetlenquiries@cetl4healthne.ac.uk
The Medical School
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Framlington Place
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 4HH
www.cetl4healthne.ac.uk
Our programme of work is focused on six themes on which mixed groups in the partnership are working:
Interprofessional education (IPE) builds upon our previous collaboration as a
Department of Health = funded Common Learning site to identify and disseminate
good IPE practice within the region.
User involvement in healthcare education: building the knowledge of the
'People with Experience' into the design, delivery and evaluation of teaching and
learning activities. An initial workshop in December 2005 was well attended by
users, carers, practitioners and educators and generated plenty of ideas.
Peer group learning motivates student students and can enable more time to be spent
on learning tasks, help to model the way future professionals will work together,
including peer appraisal, and allow for immediate and focused feedback. The
group plans by the end of 2006 to complete a review of local good practice in
peer group learning.
Practice based approaches to learning. This group has identified a range of
themes to explore including preparation, assessment, role models and timing of
learning experiences.
Health of the population. The group identified that this is a large agenda, which
will need selectivity to achieve concrete gains. One focus may be the development of ‘whole systems’ inter-agency teaching.
Preparation for modernised health care requires exploration of the potential
impacts of new roles, new patient groups, and new technologies on practice and
education for practice. This group has highlighted two areas of work to look at in
more depth over 2006: urgent care and patient safety.
The work of these themes will be supported by two further groups looking at the
use of underpinning learning technologies and evaluation of the CETL4HealthNE’s activities.