On 4 April 2012, Epic's Head of Open Source Mark Aberdour presented 'Implementing Moodle for the NHS' at the 2012 UK Moodlemoot Conference.

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MOODLEMOOT
2012
Implementing Moodle in the NHS
Mark Aberdour
Head of Open Source
Solutions, Epic
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2. OVERVIEW
Range of uses
User setup
Course enrolment
Blended learning
Organisation hierarchies / Mgt information
Compliance
Mobile
More information
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3. ORGANISATIONS
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4. RANGE OF MOODLE USES
Resuscitation Council UK – blended learning programme, three hours of e-learning and a face-
to-face workshop for nurses, paramedics and doctors
NWSEN – NW England Simulation Education Network, communities of practice, working
groups
East of England SHA - Palliative and End of Life Care blended learning programme, six hours of
e-learning and a face-to-face workshop for non-specialist staff
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement – Productive General Practice e-learning
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust – Pilot LMS with focus on statutory and mandatory
compliance programme
London Trauma Office – LMS - learning and development for trauma team leaders and team
members across faculties
For all their commonalities, they are all completely different too!
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5. USER SETUP
CSV Import Resuscitation Council UK
Active Directory Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Self-Registration NWSEN
London Trauma Office
East of England SHA
Email white lists
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
GP Practice Number white list
Self registration wins among cross-Trust
implementations.
Electronic Staff Never!
Record
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6. COURSE ENROLMENT
Manual NWSEN
enrolment Based on Working Group membership
Self enrol with London Trauma Office
faculty approval Candidate application forms
Auto enrolment Resuscitation Council UK
Depending on Trust
East of England SHA
Everyone enrolled on same single course
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Everyone enrolled on same four courses
Meta courses Imperial College Healthcare
Self-enrol onto enrolment course e.g. Level 4
Therapists, auto enrolled on all associated MCs
(would have used Cohorts but cannot self-enrol)
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9. BLENDED LEARNING
Targeted Moodle implementations for blended learning
programmes:
East of England SHA
Six hours of e-learning and follow-up face to face training
Resuscitation Council UK
Three hours of e-learning and a one-day workshop
NWSEN
Online working groups and CoP, with regular face to face
workshops. Rewrote Face-to-Face module for Moodle 2.x and
contributed back to maintainer (July 2011)
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16. ORGANISATION
HIERARCHIES / MI
East of England SHA
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Organisation management feature
Organisation levels, e.g. SHA, Org Type, Org Name
Import hierarchy from 3 column CSV file
Edit individual organisations
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Organisation levels, e.g. Clinical Programme Group, Staff
Group.
Imported from Active Directory
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17. COMPLIANCE
NHS Litigation Authority
Requires demonstration of clinical training compliance
Major driver behind Imperial’s Moodle pilot
Moodle menu based around RAG statuses for the
employee’s compliance statuses
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18. COMPLIANCE
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19. COMPLIANCE
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20. MOBILE
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21. ALSO USED BY…
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London Ambulance Service
Derby Hospitals NHS Trust
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
NHS Choices Training
Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery
Learning@NHSWales
NHS Education South Central (NESC)
Birmingham Children’s Hospital
South West Medicines Information and Training
West Midlands Regional Library Unit
Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow
Hillingdon hospital
Medway Trust and PCT
Chelsea and Westminster
North Cheshire Hospital
Disclaimer: nothing to do with Epic!
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22. MORE INFORMATION
NHS mobile research report
Available on request
Epic Insight – Implementing Moodle in the NHS
http://www.epic.co.uk/assets/files/Implementing_Moodle_NHS.pdf
NHS downloadable mobile apps
http://www.epic.co.uk/services/mobile-learning.html
NWSEN’s Face-to-face module
Available on request now, moving to Github SOON!
Email me: mark.aberdour@epic.co.uk
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