North West Digital Clinical Placement Hub – platform and model design

The Radiotherapy Education Team, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, designed and delivered an innovative clinical digital placement, funded through the HEE CPEP, at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This innovation secured accessible clinical placements to learners across England and Wales in a hard-to-reach radiotherapy modality, Proton Beam Therapy. The success of the programme, in terms of learner’s experience and professional growth, awarded the team the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer Award for Placement Innovation 2021 (Creative provision of radiotherapy clinical placements (shorthandstories.com)).
The aim of this seminar is to provide an overview of the platform, the product model and new programmes that have emerged for nurses and AHPs over the last year, including development of new programmes at a global, national and regional level. The seminar will cover how this placement model can be applied to design and implement programmes across wider disciplines.