Background:
Building upon our already established track record of innovation, The TriTech Institute was established by Hywel Dda UHB, mindful of the national and local policy and strategic context, to support the development and evaluation of innovative healthcare technologies, which contribute to improved patient outcomes. Previous work supported by Hywel Dda includes the following.
Bite-sized diabetes training for healthcare staff…
- Improving knowledge,
- Boosting confidence and
- Promoting safer patient care.
About the Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme (CDEP)
The Cambridge Diabetes Education Programme was designed and tested by a multi-disciplinary, diabetes specialist team, consisting of nurses, dietitians, podiatrists, health care assistants, general practitioners and hospital consultants including Dr Sam Rice in Hywel Dda and Chris Cotterell in Swansea Bay. It is based on the UK, nationally recognised, diabetes framework of competencies for healthcare practitioners, to ensure that they have the right diabetes skills and knowledge to support patients living with diabetes.
The various UK diabetes competency frameworks CDEP utilises are:
- TREND-UK: An integrated career and competency framework for adult diabetes nursing
- Diabetes UK: An integrated career and competency framework for dietitians and frontline staff
- Diabetes UK: Podiatry competency framework for integrated diabetes foot care
- Diabetes UK: An integrated career and competency framework for pharmacists in diabetes
CDEP’s content is continually reviewed and further developed to ensure the learning opportunities offered are evidence-based, up-to-date and relevant to the target audience. CDEP’s outcomes are routinely audited to ensure that we are meeting healthcare practitioners’ needs.
CDEP audit outcomes:
In the last audit (Nov 2020 n= 41,137), an impressive 99.98% of users reported that undertaking a CDEP topic, either confirms their high level of diabetes knowledge (15%) or alternatively, supports an improvement in their diabetes knowledge (85%). To date 3,844 HCPs from Wales have been trained using the system and as a follow on from the collaboration, Dr Sam Rice was able to negotiate free access for all Healthcare Professionals across Wales.