Mobile Skills Unit
A key objective for the Scottish Clinical Skills Strategy is to address the inequity of access to high quality multi-professional education across both geographical and professional boundaries. There was a particular challenge to deliver state of the art, simulation-based education to remote and rural areas of Scotland. Depending upon the definition used, up to one in five people in Scotland live in remote and rural areas.
Following a scoping exercise, NHS Education for Scotland agreed to fund the build of the Mobile Unit and a two year pilot period to allow full evaluation of the educational potential for such a Unit in the longer term and to determine the optimal use of the Unit.
The Mobile Clinical Skills Unit was launched on Friday 21 November 2008 by Ms Shona Robison MSP, Minister for Public Health, during the Scottish Clinical Skills Alliance conference, and has been on the road since January 2009.
The Unit provides the safe learning environment, part-task trainers and state of the art mid-fidelity simulation equipment (including SimMan and SimBaby) to allow a broad range of clinical skills education to be delivered.
Over 1700 healthcare practitioners took part in education on the Unit during the pilot period (January 2009 to December 2010), visting 26 venues and providing 227 courses throughout Scotland. In the majority of venues there has been an excellent balance between national and local programmes.
For more information contact Sarah Race, Project Officer for the Mobile Unit on 01382 496516 or sarah.race@nes.scot.nhs.uk
Contact Us
Project Officer - Mobile Unit:
Sarah Race
Email sarah.race@nes.scot.nhs.uk
