Purpose
This policy is about making sure that First Response Resuscitation & First Aid Training Ltd has effective systems of educational governance and leadership to manage and control the quality of resuscitation, education and first aid training.
These systems should treat learners according to principles of safety, equality and fairness. They should ensure appropriate assessment, manage learners’ progression, and share outcomes of education and training programmes. It is in the public and patients’ interests that there is effective, robust, transparent and fair oversight of education and training.
Responsibility
First Response Resuscitation & First Aid Training Ltd (First Response) must demonstrate leadership of medical education and training through effective educational governance. Working together, they should integrate educational, clinical and medical governance to keep patients and learners safe and create an appropriate learning environment and organisational culture.
First Response along with the Resuscitation Council (UK) & Qualsafe control the quality of education leading to the various awards in first aid training, basic life support, defibrillation and anaphylaxis qualifications.
A director must be accountable for educational governance, and those in educational leadership roles must have demonstrable educational credibility and capability. First Response is able to maintain curricula and assessment frameworks according to the standards set by the (GMC) General Medical Council & (GDC) General Dental Council.
Standards
1. First Response educational governance system continuously improves the quality and outcomes of education and training by measuring performance against the standards, demonstrating accountability, and responding when standards are not being met.
2. The educational and clinical governance systems are integrated, allowing First Response to address concerns about patient safety, the standard of care, and the standard of education and training.
3. The educational governance system makes sure that education and training is fair and is based on principles of equality and diversity.
4. First Response facilitates these standards and requirements for the delivery of all stages of resuscitation education and training.
Promoting excellence: standards for resuscitation education and training sets the standards that we expect organisations responsible for educating and training in the UK to meet.
The standards and requirements are organised around control by the following organisations listed below:
- Resuscitation Council (UK) 2015: www.resus.org.uk
- Quality Standards For Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Practice & Training. Primary Dental Care –Quality Standards: www.resus.org.uk/quality-standards/primary-dental-care-quality-standards-for-cpr
- Quality Standards For Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Practice & Training. Primary Care –Quality Standards:www.resus.org.uk/quality-standards/primary-care-quality-standards-for-cpr
Requirements
5. First Response has effective, transparent and clearly understood educational governance systems and processes to manage or control the quality of medical education and training.
6. First Response can clearly demonstrate accountability for educational governance in the organisation at director level or equivalent. First Response be able to show they are meeting the standards for the quality of medical education and training within their organisation and responding appropriately to concerns.
7. First Response must consider the impact on learners of policies, systems or processes. They must take account of the views of learners, educators and, where appropriate, patients, the public, and employers. This is particularly important when services are being redesigned.
8. First Response regularly evaluates and review the curricula and assessment frameworks, education and training programmes as they are responsible to make sure standards are being met and to improve the quality of education and training.
9. First Response must evaluate information about learners’ performance, progression and outcomes – such as the results of exams and assessments – by collecting, analysing and using data on quality and on equality and diversity.
10. Customers must have systems and processes to monitor the quality of teaching, support, facilities and learning and must respond when standards are not being met.
10.1. First Response has a system for raising concerns about education and training within the organisation. They must investigate and respond when such concerns are raised, and this must involve feedback to the individuals who raised the concerns.
10.2. First Response must share and report information about quality control of education and training with other bodies that have educational governance responsibilities. This is to identify risk, improve quality locally and more widely, and to identify good practice.
10.3. First Response must collect manage and share all necessary data and reports to meet GDC/GMC approval requirements.
10.4. First Response is responsible for managing and providing education and training must monitor how educational resources are allocated and used, including ensuring time in trainers’ job plans.
10.5. First Response must have systems and processes to make sure learners have appropriate supervision. Educational and clinical governance must be integrated so that learners do not pose a safety risk, and education and training takes place in a safe environment and culture.
10.6. First Response must have systems to manage learners’ progression, with input from a range of people, to inform decisions about their progression.
10.7. First Response has systems and processes to identify, support and manage learners when there are concerns about a learner’s knowledge, skills, or conduct that may affect a learner’s wellbeing or patient safety.
10.8. First Response has systems to make sure that education and training comply with all relevant legislation.
10.9. First Response ensures that recruitment, selection and appointment of learners and educators are open, fair and transparent.
10.11. First Response is involved in the collating, examining results, student information, analysis of data is therefore registered with the (ICO.) Information Commissioners Office under registration Z1874429.
If you have any concerns or questions about this policy, our courses, or any of our trainers, please get in touch.
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