In 2014, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust enlisted the help of Karen and the team at 18WeekeLearning to establish a package for staff both clinical and non-clinical in order to enhance staff knowledge of the 18 weeks RTT pathways and to support improvements in recording RTT pathways appropriately within the Trust.

Following completion of the training modules and as a direct result of commissioning the eLearning package, the exams have now become mandatory for all users who are exposed to RTT within the organisation. This also ensured both standardisation of practice and reliability.

With so many staff changes and with the change in RTT guidance since October 2015, the Trust renewed for a second year.

Once again, Karen and her team helped us through the registration process ensuring that all staff who registered last year were ready to go and for all our newcomers that they had accounts too.

The site has been refreshed, including reflecting changes in the new guidance and now supports comprehensive dashboards and reports which will make a difference when ascertaining competent staff within the organisation.

It has felt this year that the experience has been far less painful for staff and our success rate of staff passing the exams is double that of what it was last year. Staff have not felt it as daunting and we are easily able to pick out our RTT champions looking at the results.

The Trust has welcomed this training as we did struggle to find a definitive place for staff to understand the full impact of RTT and Karen and her team have provided an excellent structured and knowledgeable tool to for us to achieve this.

Thank you Karen!