Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network

The Mobile Skills Unit is a multiprofessional, multi-agency resource designed to be used for training and updating skills for all healthcare professionals, whether working in the primary or secondary care sector.

The MSU can also be used for training other agencies associated with health care (ie fire and rescue, coastguard, charities) as well as school pupils and members of the public in resuscitation and other health promotion skills. It is equipped to enable delivery of technical and non-technical skills, according to local needs. Here is an example of a training programme for a two-week visit.

Skills that can be taught on the unit

A variety of sessions can be taught onboard, depending on the needs of the staff in the local area, which can be delivered by a mix of local and national trainers. These range from airway management, suturing and venepuncture to immediate life support, chest trauma and multi-agency emergency scenarios. Scenario templates can be downloaded from the Simulation Toolbox here.

Courses that can be taught on the unit

Training programmes can be customised for staff based on local needs.  A diverse range of national courses have been delivered on the Mobile Skills Unit.  These include:   

  • Emergency Medical Retrieval Service courses  
  • BASICS Scotland Core Skills courses 
  • SCOTStar courses  
  • Paediatric Emergencies  
  • Psychiatric Emergences 
  • Surgical Skills 
  • Acute Medical Emergencies  
  • Faculty Development 
  • North Scotland Trauma Team

Online Resources

We develop online resources which can be used on the MSU, to find out more about the online resources available please access the resources section.

Quality Assurance

The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network is accountable to NES for the quality assurance of the education delivered through the Mobile Skills Unit. We have developed a simple self-assessment questionnaire to be used by the facilitators of each session run on the unit to check that the education meets nine criteria for best practice in skills delivery. The self-assessment questionnaire is available to download here.

For more information about the quality assurance process visit our dedicated QA webpage.

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