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I am delighted to welcome you to the winter edition of the PTP Newsletter.From Glasgow to Exeter, from Sunderland to Dublin, my colleagues and I have travelled across the UK and Ireland to share your peers’ best practice and top tips. I’ve demonstrated new content, asked for opinions and listened to your feedback, to help K2 shape the development of your training programme. It was great to meet so many of you again this year, thank you for your input and participation. Due to demand, I’m pleased to say that the new South West and North East meetings in Exeter and Sunderland are now be included in K2’s annual itinerary. 2017 dates and reservation details are listed overleaf for : Manchester, London, Birmingham, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow, Sunderland and Exeter.
NewsletterK2 Medical Systems™
Perinatal Training Programme (PTP)
New in 2016JUST RELEASED! New Competency Assessment Tool – Highlights: • Assessments now available for each chapter• Add your own hospital’s questions, just for
your staff• Review individual scores & hospital stats• Track recommended relearning, post
assessment, has been completed• Negative marking removed and incorrect
responses displayed
I’m really excited to share this new addition with you. I believe it will be a real asset in helping to achieve evidence of training and competency, as outlined in ‘Saving Babies’ Lives – A Care Bundle for Reducing Stillbirth’. I’ve attached an Administrator’s Guide to provide an overview.
NEW HOMEPAGE The new-look PTP homepage features fresh new graphics and clearer defined reporting and activity tracking in Progress Manager.
Winter 2016/17
We are the largest provider of online CTG training in the UK and the ONLY provider to support both NICE 2007 & NICE 2014 GUIDELINES. To request a free upgrade to 2007 or 2014, please contact me directly. News regarding the latest NICE draft publication is listed overleaf.
e: [email protected] t: 07919 811895 www.k2ms.com
Robert Bawn Customer Liaisone: [email protected] t: 07919 811895
HOTNEWS To ensure best value for your hospital I can, at present, hold your costs at your current price for a further 3 years (no annual increases) and avoid the January 2017 price review. Please register your interest by emailing [email protected] by 6.1.17. There’s no additional payment, we just send a revised/extended contract to you; payments will remain fixed and continue to be paid annually. If you have any questions please let me know, my contact details are above.
New PTP homepage
12 New Competency Assessments
e: [email protected] t: 07919 811895 www.k2ms.com
With over 98% of all our users rating the PTP as either good or excellent we know we are still on the right track and are providing the very best eLearning experience possible. We are always developing and improving the system, however, don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or feedback to help us continue to make this award winning training system the very best it can be.
Support is available! Our K2 Support team are available between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday with any technical support questions on 0044 (0)1752 397800 option 1.
If you need help or advice, either on or off site, with staff engagement, maximising your K2 licence potential, or any other queries, contact me on 07919 811895, or email me at [email protected].
I hope to see you at the User Group Meetings in 2017.
Best wishes,
NEW PROGRESS SNAPSHOTNow renamed Chapter Completions to reflect its purpose and has been moved to the Administrator homepage, underneath Progress Manager Tab. Chapter Completions will display a date for any staff member who has fully completed any chapter during the months selected only. Choose from Any Fetal Monitoring or Any Maternity Crisis Management Training, and the number of months from the two drop down options, then press Update to display the information. Example below. You can save to Excel if needed!
TOP TIP You can Save to Excel or Print your staff data directly from Chapter Completion, or Progress Manager. Just click on the Save or Print tab.
YOUR HOSPITAL FEEDBACK REPORTS NOW INCLUDED!
View your hospital’s own user feedback reports to see how staff rate the K2 training. Resulting from your feedback, this new report will now be sent to your hospital every 6 months, along with the Evidence of Training Report. I hope that you find this new report helps you to evaluate the benefit of the PTP.
Dates for your calendar – User Group Meetings 2017
MANCHESTER 6th July LONDON 7th July BIRMINGHAM 12th July DUBLIN 13th September
BELFAST 14th September GLASGOW 27th September SUNDERLAND 28th September EXETER 11th October
To reserve your place please email [email protected]
Still to Come! • Intermittent Auscultation chapter• IPad and Tablet access• Low Risk Chapter
Intermittent Auscultation will also be added to the new Competency Assessments when released in 2017.
PTP ON THE MOVE
We are continuing our work to ensure the PTP is accessible from handheld devices such as iPad/Tablet. This is one of the most requested developments from all our User Groups and we are working hard to make this a reality as soon as possible in 2017.
News UpdateFollowing the national launch of K2 INFANT-Guardian™, we’re delighted to announce our first site to purchase, NHS Lothian, is due to go live early 2017. For further information please email [email protected]
NICE CTG GUIDELINES
A new draft publication of NICE Guidelines was released on 31st October and is now out for consultation. It contains an update on CTG interpretation, a move back towards the thinking in 2007 guidelines, similar to FIGO, variable decelerations and sinusoidal patterns back in. K2 will be monitoring and we will adapt to the new changes as soon as possible. The full publication can be found below:https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/GID-CGWAVE0613/documents/addendum-appendicies
