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Queen’s Hospital Education and Learning centre

Statement of Purpose

The Education Centre is a dedicated facility within the hospital, which will promote the concept of interdisciplinary learning, whilst maintaining the integrity of individual professional requirements. It will play a central role in enabling the Trust to maximise the use of its educational resources.

The rooms in the Educational Centre are not available for the use of meetings, which do not support or facilitate education, learning and development. Separate satellite seminar rooms support this need.

Staff will be able to access a wide range of learning materials to support their own professional and personal learning and development. This will be aligned to the aims and objectives of Directorates/Departments and the Trust as a whole to ensure that all members of staff have the necessary knowledge, skills and expertise to provide services to patients and carers and fulfil their potential. Opportunities will be made available to assist staff in achieving this goal.

The facilities include:

• Reception area with central booking system
• Lecture theatres with multimedia audio/video conferencing links
• Satellite seminar rooms for meetings and teaching.
• Clinical Skills Laboratory
• Resuscitation & Manual handling training room
• Library & Computer Assisted Learning Rooms
• In house catering facilities for users of the Centre
• Medical student locker rooms

Client Groups

The centre will provide facilities foremost for Hospital Staff but will also provide the opportunity to engage in the provision of services for a range of other external stakeholders and providers

Reception area

The reception area will provide a professional point of first contact, with high quality, advice guidance and support in reference to facilities available.

Hours of operation

In the first instance the centre will be operational between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday. However it is recognised that the opening hours need to reflect the needs of the service and will be informed by a mapping process, consultation and available funding.

Room Booking

A central booking system will be utilised and rooms allocated according to priority criteria. A booking form is available below. The booking form will need to be completed and returned to the Education and Learning Reception.

Cancellation Policy

There will be a cancellation policy that will ensure the maximum use of the facilities

Education Centre seminar rooms and lecture theatres

The following categories have been identified as priority

• Statutory and mandatory learning activities
• Core pre and post registration educational development
• Corporate priorities

Satellite seminar rooms

There are satellite rooms located throughout the hospitals, which can be booked through the education centre. Geographical location will feature in the allocation of these rooms. A full list of satellite rooms that can be booked together with wayfinding instructions and capacity details can be accessed below.

Cancer Satellite Seminar Room / Day Room 1 G80059|
(24 chairs. Tables seating 12/15 board room style)|

Cancer Satellite Seminar Room / Day Room 2 G12921|
(21 chairs. Tables seating 12/15 board room style)|

Radiology Satellite Seminar Room G45063|
(26 chairs. No tables)|

Shared Support Satellite Room 399027|
(13 chairs. No tables)|

Shared Support Satellite Room 499021|
(15 chairs. 1 table)|

Room booking form [25kb]

Audio-visual support

There are no dedicated audiovisual technicians in the Centre. However staff will assist with the set up and usage of laptop and data projection facilities. Clear instructions for the use of equipment will be provided. In addition the centre will support the development of individual members of staff to ensure competency in this area.

Multi-disciplinary Clinical Skills Laboratory

The clinical skills laboratory will be established and developed for the use of multidisciplinary internal and external staff.

Resuscitation & Manual handling training room

This is a dedicated facility to deliver the requirements of the Trust in relation to the above. In addition the room will be available for other purposes when necessary.

Library & Computer Assisted Learning Rooms

These will provide access and support to a wide range of educational resources in the form of e-learning programmes, books and periodicals.

In house catering facilities for users of the Centre

In order to maintain the fabric of the building it is necessary to ban food and drink from all areas other than the bistro.
There is a bistro located within the Education Centre. Food and Drink will be provided through SODEXHO. There will be requirement for pharmaceutical representatives and all other centre users to use this service.

Room booking form [25kb]

Key / equipment hire form [26kb]

King George Hospital - James Fawcett education centre

This centre is multi-disciplinary and therefore very active. We hold many departmental meetings including breakfast meetings for Cardiology and Gastroenterology. Lunchtime meetings are held daily in the specialities of Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics and Urology. General Practitioners attend the Centre for their educational meetings, which are held on Wednesdays and we have approximately forty local GPs who belong to the Redbridge GP education scheme. We run a Vocational Training Scheme for General Practice.

King George Hospital is an associated teaching hospital affiliated to the Royal Free & UCL and also St. Bartholomew’s & The Royal London Hospitals. 4th and 5th year medical students come to the hospital. We also have an Introductory Clinical Skills course for twelve 3rd year medical students twice a year.

We have many clinical attachments who do four week attachments with various Consultants. Normally these doctors are about to take their PLAB examination. After their attachments some of the doctors apply for posts within the Trust and are usually successful.

The James Fawcett education centre has a lecture theatre that holds 100 people, with multi-media and projection available. There are also 4 seminar rooms available with seating from 12 to 40.