TY - JOUR T1 - The development and introduction of a national e-learning programme to support the dissemination of NEWS2 JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 530 LP - 533 DO - 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0457 VL - 22 IS - 6 AU - Nicholas Blackwell AU - Lesley Durham AU - Rachel Binks AU - Derek Bell AU - Bryan Williams Y1 - 2022/11/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/22/6/530.abstract N2 - Early detection, timeliness and competence of clinical response are a triad of determinants of clinical outcome in people with acute illness. In 2012, the Royal College of Physicians published the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) with the aim of standardising the response to, assessment of and monitoring of acutely ill patients. This was subsequently updated in December 2017 to become NEWS2. Alongside the development of NEWS/NEWS2, it was clear that a supportive educational package was going to be essential for dissemination, learning and national adoption of NEWS/NEWS2 across all healthcare settings. Another driver for the early development of an e-learning package to accompany the launch of NEWS in 2012 was the opportunity that it provided not only to standardise the early warning system across the NHS but also to use that standardised process to facilitate better and more consistent education and training across the entire healthcare system; building on the concept of NEWS providing a common language. ER -