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From 2012-14 we worked with the Higher Education Academy on a project to identify and disseminate curriculum innovations currently in practice across the UK in nursing, midwifery and AHP education. The project’s first year focused on scoping and identifying innovations, using a student journey to provide a framework to which innovation could be mapped. HEIs from across the four nations submitted case studies detailing examples of innovation in teaching and learning that are now available for all to access.

Assessment strategy to promote employability in PGT programme

Swansea University

The redesign of the assessment strategy across a postgraduate taught programme to promote employability and provide a more authentic assessment. The diversity of assessment methods provides challenge for the students but enables them to demonstrate a range of skills with application in the world of work and practice. What prompted innovation? Employers in public […]

Interprofessional teaching strategy between midwifery and medical students

Queen's University Belfast

A small team of midwife teachers and medical colleagues have collaborated together to develop an innovative inter professional teaching strategy between final year midwifery students and 4th year medical students. The planned workshops involve the midwifery students teaching the medical students on a variety of aspects of labour and birth. The midwifery students adopt […]

App for pain and dementia carers website

University of Greenwich

The iPhone Pain Assessment application and dementia carers web site What prompted innovation? There is what has been described as an ageing time bomb or a crisis facing our health and social care systems. The population around the world is ageing; in fact, we are about to see the over-80 age group triple and […]

Teaching and assessing knowledge on haemoglobinopathies using 'Who wants to be a Millionaire'

University of South Wales

I have adapted a resource developed by Antenatal Screening Wales for midwifery teaching/training and assessment of knowledge on haemoglobinopathies. It is based on the ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire’ game/programme. What prompted innovation? Lack of knowledge/interest on the topic/relevance of haemoglobinapthies in a low prevalence country like Wales. Poor retention of previously taught […]

Use of mock funding panels in assessment in social work

Staffordshire University

The innovation concerns a new approach to summative assessment within the “Social Work: Community Care with Adults” level 5 module. Students work in groups and are tasked with creating a fictional case scenario which raises community care issues. They then have to complete a community care assessment of the fictional service-user’s needs and put […]

Interactive website

Kingston University, University of London

An interactive website that demonstrates the use of specific mental health interventions and advanced communication skills. The student can watch, repeatedly if necessary, clinical examples of different therapeutic interventions and see how skills are used to develop a collaborative partnership with a client in mental health practice. The student can download a blank template […]

Online Clinical Supervision

University of Southampton

The innovation is called CSO-L (Clinical Supervision On-line). Using cloud based technology, an online environment has been configured, based on the research finding from my doctoral thesis. This virtual world provides a safe and professional environment for one to one and group clinical supervision. The site allows for multiple groups and networks to be […]

MSc Clinical Leadership

University of Southampton

The innovation concerns a unique MSc programme in Clinical Leadership in Cancer, Palliative and End of Life Care. This programme aims to enable emerging and established clinical leaders in these specialties to critically champion compassionate and informed care of a high quality, and to create learning environments that promote excellence. Specifically, to achieve these […]

Forum theatre

University of Southampton

Our innovation is using a theatrical method called ‘forum theatre’ which we have specifically tailored for enhancing the teaching and learning experience for students in health and social care. Forum theatre is a theatrical game in which a problem from clinical practice is shown to students in the form of a play in an […]

Spidergram of curriculum design

University of the West of England, Bristol

Curricular are often designed and developed to include separate modules which are reported as contributing to fragmentation in skills development (Cadman et.al., 2003) and compartmentalisation of professional development (Gass et. al., 2004). The Spidergram of Curriculum Design (SgCD) below illustrates the template used for mapping learning outcomes and syllabus content nursing programmes. The use […]