ECDL

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ECDL Enter your trust

• Presented by Enter your name

Informing Healthcare
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WHAT IS ECDL?
The European Computer Driving License is an
internationally recognised IT qualification aimed
at all desktop PC users. It is the basic
Information Technology skills standard for NHS
Wales, and overseen by Informing Healthcare
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What is Informing Healthcare?

• Informing Healthcare is a Welsh Assembly
  Government strategy to modernise healthcare in
  Wales over the next ten years, supported by
  investment in Information and ICT.

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Informing Healthcare and ECDL

• An Access to Learning project is being conducted
  within Informing Healthcare which is overseeing
  the expansion of the ECDL qualification
• The Access to Learning project will also develop
  education and training for all staff in health
  informatics and improve professional development
  for health informatics
• For more information contact the Access to
  Learning Project Manager, Vic Heard
• Tel [phone] e-mail Vic.heard_at_sip.wales.nhs
  .uk

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ECDL IN BRIEF

• Internationally recognised computer skills
  qualification in PC competence
• Free to all Health Services Staff
• Flexible approach Up to 3 years, from
  registering passport
• 7 modules, covering core computer user
  competencies
• Modules can be taken in any order
• 7 x 45min timed tests (1 per module)
• Candidates can re-sit tests

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ECDL MODULAR STRUCTURE

• BASIC CONCEPTS OF IT
• Terminology, Health Safety, Legal Issues
• USING A COMPUTER MANAGING FILES
• Folder Structure, Copying, Moving, Backup etc.
• WORD PROCESSING
• To Mail Merge Level
• SPREADSHEETS
• Simple Formulae, Charting, Single Multiple
  Sheets
• DATABASE
• Forms, Queries, Reports
• PRESENTATION
• Develop A Slideshow, Transitions, Animations,
  Import
• INFORMATION COMMUNICATION
• Internet, Email

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BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS

• Raises your level of competency in IT computer
  skills, saving time
• A survey of NHS staff who had passed ECDL found
  that, on average, people saved 35 minutes of time
  every day after passing the ECDL
• Can improve your internal/external career
  prospects
• (survey of 1400 people conducted by NHS
  Information Authority)

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CAREER BENEFITS

• The Royal College of Physicians awards 40 CME
  points under its CPD scheme to doctors gaining
  the ECDL.
• The Royal College of Midwives includes the ECDL
  within its professional updating scheme, to
  recognise that their members have gained the
  agreed level of competence.

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BENEFITS FOR (insert trust)

• Benefits highlighted by the NHS IA survey
  includes an increase in staff morale, increased
  staff confidence and a positive effect on
  attitudes to new IT systems.
• The ECDL also reduces drastically the numbers of
  people needing to ask for IT help, with over 80
  stating that they rarely needed IT help after
  passing the course.

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THE VICIOUS CIRCLE
inadequate IT training
inadequate training budgets
poor end-user utilisation of technology
poor return to the health service for
its investment in IT
poor perception of IT by health service managers




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THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE
ECDL
increases in training budgets
highly effective end-user utilisation of IT
high returns to the health service for
its investment in IT
recognition of technologys contribution to the
service by health service managers




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ECDL The Future

• Financial support from Informing Healthcare to
• Set up and deliver on-line training and testing
• Provision of ECDL log books from BCS
• Funding of additional trainers
• Additional Equipment Resources

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Expanding ECDL in (enter trust)

• Enter your trusts training arrangements i.e
• Workshops Fortnightly
• Testing Day monthly
• On-line opportunities

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Story of Dr Bytes

• Dr Bytes starts training to reach ECDL
  standards

• Registers FREE at the (enter test centre)

• Attends workshops, training, sits exams

• Completes all 7 module tests

• Logbook sent off to the BCS

• ECDL certificate returned

• Dr Bytes PC thinks hes wonderful

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FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information on ECDL please
contact Enter your trust contact
details Informing Healthcare Contact Susan
Thomas, Tel[phone] susan.thomas_at_sip.wales.nh
s.uk Internet www.wales.nhs.uk/ihc NHS Intranet
http//howis.wales.nhs.uk/ihc