SY Training Hub nominated for HTN Now Award 2024: Health Tech Team of the Year

The Health Tech Newspaper (HTN) have revealed the finalists in the HTN Now Awards.

The awards help to share and celebrate digital teams, programmes, innovations and health tech suppliers that have made a difference throughout the year.

The digital awards evening, will be live from 8pm on 29 January 2025, via the HTN website.

Finalist: South Yorkshire Primary Care Workforce & Training Hub

Overview: The team tested products of varying price, digital make up and readiness to see what fit for Primary Care by combining existing traditional teaching methods and schedules with the new tools to see if they brought additional capacity, improved engagement and embedded learning in a meaningful and powerful way.

Why? The issues around training Primary Care are many; lack of capacity to teach, lack of experienced supervisors, lack of facilities and space to host trainees, lack of investment into training… to name a few. This team set out to prove that with the use of digital tools they could mitigate some of these issues.

What happened? The team at the Hub has gone from knowing nothing about digital training tools to being one of the leading providers in the country in three short years. They have since joined ASPiH and are a key member of the Primary Care Special Interest Group bringing digital expertise to Simulation. Several training sessions were delivered to different cohorts of clinicians and trainees, using new digital training tools including immersive technologies. Each training session was evaluated, and a case study written around it for evidencing informed decisions. The testing of these tools started off with a baffling array of choices. To narrow these down, the team had to focus in on what the gaps in training were, what the issues were they were trying to solve, what was actually required. Evaluation has shown that trainees found value in a safe space to practice without fear of making a mistake in front of peers; the ability to practise conversations you wouldn’t normally get to; and a more visual learning experience.

Looking ahead. The knowledge amassed is now sought after by other organisations of varying sizes hoping to learn the benefits, pitfalls and value of products not only on the market now, but those that can be created in partnership with SMEs to cultivate a bespoke library of content fit for purpose.