This guide provides practical support and guidance to those using VC for either professional communication or education.  This  consists of a comprehensive guide, quick start programme and practical checklists.

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The RRHEAL QA guide is a “How to” toolkit  to ensure that education at a distance is quality assured.  This will assist with planning, delivering and evaluating education delivered at distance in an inclusive manner.

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RRHEAL Remote Participation Scotland Events 2012

Connecting Communities: Sharing the Learning

Better Health, Safe Care, Lower Costs 

RRHEAL/NHS Education for Scotland, Quality Improvement Scotland and the Scottish Government Health Department are pleased to announce that we will be hosting a series of events in Scotland this year bringing the opportunity to share and learn from this international Forum much closer to home.  The events will include for the first time the opportunity for healthcare professionals in Scotland to benefit from the 2011 Better Health, Safer Care, Lower Costs Forum event without the need to travel that is, via remote access.  The events will provide those who participate with guidance on how to host further remote participation events within their own locality and access to the forums key sessions online

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Pre Hospital Mental health Crisis Course delivers generic mental health care skills to practitioners who may work single handed and required to respond to patients experiencing mental health crisis.  The course has a blended format.  This course will be offered in future by Health Scotland.

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Landmark DVD ensures all health and social services staff across Scotland are Informed about Dementia.

In the first joint education initiative of its kind in Scotland, NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) have produced an educational resource for the entire health and social services workforce in Scotland.  Entitle 'Informed about Demential: improving practice', the DVD is an important milestone in achieveing the aims of Scotland's National Dementia Strategy and has been fully endorsed by Alzheimer Scotland and the Scottish Dementia Working Group (SDWG), the national campaigning group run for and by people with demenia.

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Literature Searches

The following link will take you to an interesting collection of articles documented by remote and rural clinicians in Australia.  These provide an insight into how remote and rural educational needs are met in the vast and challenging geography of Australia.

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