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Structured pathways

Learning programmes

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10 published modules

Frailty & Clinical Frailty Scale

A ten-module pathway from frailty concepts and recognition to CFS reasoning, management, services and complex decision-making.

Audience: Designed for healthcare professionals who assess or support adults living with frailty. Modules may be completed independently; the programme sequence provides a coherent course pathway.

Certificate process: unavailable · Open programme →

10 published modules

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

A ten-module pathway from multidomain assessment to a prioritised, coordinated and reviewable care plan.

Audience: Designed for healthcare professionals assessing, treating, rehabilitating or coordinating care for older adults. Modules may be completed independently or as a structured programme.

Certificate process: unavailable · Open programme →

10 published modules

Mental Capacity: Decision-Making in Clinical Practice

Ten modules covering supported decision-making, assessment, substitute decisions, proxies, advance planning, liberty safeguards, documentation and escalation across UK jurisdictions.

Audience: For healthcare professionals who make or support decisions with adults whose decision-making ability may be questioned. Modules can be completed individually or as a structured course.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Clinical Learning

Cross-specialty, source-led clinical learning with explanatory assessments.

Audience: Designed for healthcare professionals whose work involves clinical decisions, supervision, safety or multidisciplinary care.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Good Medical Practice: Standards, Judgement and Professional Practice

A ten-module applied professional learning programme helping doctors use Good medical practice in real clinical and professional decisions, with wider ethical, legal, regulatory and organisational context.

Audience: Doctors practising in the UK, with particular relevance to SAS doctors, locally employed doctors, consultants, resident doctors and international medical graduates. Selected material is also relevant to other GMC-regulated medical professionals and multidisciplinary colleagues.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Confidentiality, Information Governance and Data Protection: Professional Judgement in Healthcare

A ten-module applied professional programme on confidentiality, information governance and current UK data-protection practice, with four-nation awareness and the CLEAR professional-judgement framework.

Audience: Doctors practising in the UK, with particular relevance to SAS doctors, locally employed doctors, consultants, resident doctors and international medical graduates. Selected material is also relevant to nurses, allied health professionals, managers and other staff handling confidential health information.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

12 published modules

Foundations of Prescribing for Non-Medical Prescribers

A 12-module pre-prescribing foundation programme covering clinical assessment, applied pharmacology, safe prescribing, medicines optimisation, monitoring, patient partnership, antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing governance. Preparatory education only; it does not confer prescribing authority, qualification, register annotation or employer authorisation.

Audience: Registered nurses, pharmacists and other eligible regulated professionals preparing for formal prescribing education. Completion is educational preparation only and is not a substitute for regulator-approved training, supervised practice, registration/annotation or employer governance.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Medicines in Clinical Practice: Safe Prescribing, Optimisation, Monitoring and Professional Judgement

A ten-module applied programme on safe prescribing, medicines reconciliation, individualised treatment decisions, dose and formulation, polypharmacy, monitoring, adverse reactions, controlled drugs, shared-care interfaces, medication incidents and professional judgement.

Audience: Healthcare professionals involved in prescribing or medicines management across UK clinical settings, with particular relevance to doctors working in SAS, consultant, resident, locally employed and international graduate roles, and useful multidisciplinary context for pharmacists, nurses and allied professionals.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

15 published modules

Foundations of Prescribing - Nurse Prescribing Preparation Pathway

A 15-module pathway combining the 12 prescribing-foundation modules with three nurse-specific modules on NMC prescribing routes, readiness for approved prescribing education and transition into safe workplace practice. It does not confer V300/V150/V100 status, NMC approval, register annotation or employer authorisation.

Audience: Registered nurses or midwives exploring or preparing for NMC-approved prescribing education, and employers/educators supporting that preparation. This ClinicalEdu pathway is not an NMC-approved prescribing programme.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Law, Ethics and Professional Decision-Making in Healthcare

A ten-module applied programme connecting law, ethics, professional regulation, human rights, confidentiality, safeguarding, candour, raising concerns, probity and complex decision-making across UK healthcare.

Audience: Healthcare professionals across UK clinical settings, with particular relevance to SAS doctors, consultants, resident doctors, locally employed doctors and international graduates, and useful multidisciplinary context for nurses, pharmacists and allied professionals.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

15 published modules

Foundations of Prescribing - Pharmacist Prescribing Preparation Pathway

A 15-module pathway combining the 12 prescribing-foundation modules with three pharmacist-specific modules on the GPhC prescribing architecture, formal IP development where required, and transition into a safe prescribing role. It does not create GPhC annotation, replace an approved IP route or confer employer authorisation.

Audience: Registered pharmacists preparing for a separate independent-prescribing route, consolidating prescribing foundations or transitioning into a prescribing role, including awareness of the 2026 cohort transition. This ClinicalEdu pathway is preparatory education only.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

14 published modules

Quality Improvement, Clinical Audit and Research in Healthcare

A fourteen-module interprofessional practical programme that develops the knowledge and tools to classify, plan, measure, test, audit, evaluate, research, implement and report improvement work safely and credibly across health and care.

Audience: Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists, managers, quality and safety staff, researchers and other health and care professionals who design, lead, support, interpret or supervise improvement, audit, service evaluation or research.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

22 published modules

The SAS Doctors Handbook

A structured 22-module programme based on The SAS Doctors Handbook, with direct access to the complete online handbook.

Audience: Developed specifically for SAS doctors working in the NHS. The programme remains valuable to consultants, resident doctors, locally employed doctors, international medical graduates and other healthcare professionals where the subject is transferable; SAS-specific contractual and progression material should be read in that context.

Certificate process: manual · Open programme →

10 published modules

Acute & General Medicine: Clinical Reasoning in Practice

An integrated ten-module course on early recognition of deterioration, diagnostic reasoning, clinical evidence, complexity, consent and safe escalation in adult acute and general medicine. Intended as professional learning, not a substitute for supervised clinical practice or resuscitation certification.

Audience: Doctors and healthcare professionals working with acutely unwell adults. Apply learning within professional scope, current guidance, organisational policy and local escalation arrangements. This programme is not accredited BLS or ALS training.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

10 published modules

Consent: Shared Decision-Making, Risk, Refusal and Valid Authority

A ten-module programme on valid consent, shared decision-making, risk, refusal and lawful authority across UK clinical practice.

Audience: Healthcare professionals involved in examination, investigation, treatment and shared clinical decisions.

Certificate process: automatic · Open programme →

12 published modules

Leadership in Practice

A multi-module programme connecting leadership learning with clinical and organisational practice.

Audience: Relevant to SAS doctors, consultants, resident doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and others who lead people, services or improvement.

Certificate process: manual · Open programme →

6 published modules

Professional Development

Professional standards, appraisal, regulation, digital safety and reflective practice.

Audience: Designed for doctors and other regulated healthcare professionals, with profession-specific context stated within each module.

Certificate process: manual · Open programme →

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