RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The development and introduction of a national e-learning programme to support the dissemination of NEWS2
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 530
OP 533
DO 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0457
VO 22
IS 6
A1 Nicholas Blackwell
A1 Lesley Durham
A1 Rachel Binks
A1 Derek Bell
A1 Bryan Williams
YR 2022
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/22/6/530.abstract
AB 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.