E-learning user information - ESR Hub

National E-learning Updates

E-Learning updates - 13 May 2025

New courses

000 Safe Management of Medicines for Social Care Staff

The safe management of medicines for social care staff e-learning modules are aimed at the non-registered medicines workforce, focusing on the knowledge and skills necessary to handle and administer medicines safely in domiciliary and residential settings.

E-Learning updates - 2 May 2025

New courses

000 Paramedic - Trauma and Critical Care for Paramedics

This course will focus on the assessment and management of head trauma, spinal trauma, thoracic trauma, abdominal trauma in adults over the age of 16.

000 Paramedic - Public Health

This course will explore the meaning of the term `public health¿ and consider how public health has evolved over time.

000 Paramedic - ECG

This course describes how to undertake an ECG and the electrical conduction system of a normal heart as identified on an ECG.

000 Paramedic - Paramedic Management of Infectious Diseases (including COVID 19)

This course outlines the coronavirus structure, pathophysiology, epidemiology and transmission.

000 Paramedic - Supervising and Assessing a Learner in Practice/CPD

This course provides introduces you to 4 people where you will learn a bit about them and their on-going learning and development. 

E-Learning updates - 15 April 2025

New courses

000 Preventing Harm from Environmental Exposure to Carbon Monoxide

The course has been created to enable health and social care staff to recognise the signs and symptoms of CO exposure and actions that can be taken to prevent harm to their patient/clients and their own families.

E-Learning updates - 11 April 2025

New course

000 Fraud Awareness

This course will give you an understanding of fraud, bribery, and corruption, as well as the importance of taking personal responsibility to prevent it.

This course replaces the existing course which has been renamed 000 Fraud Awareness (2014 - 2025) and has been end dated 30th April 2025.

E-Learning updates - 03 April 2025

New courses

000 NEWS2 and Deterioration for Secondary Care

This course discusses how the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) is used to inform decision making in the initial escalation of care but does not replace clinical judgement.

E-Learning updates - 21 March 2025

New course

000 Investing in prevention - tobacco dependency treatment pathways

This course looks at the role of finance professionals in understanding and supporting the development of tobacco dependency treatment pathways.

End dated courses

The following courses, provided by the HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association have been end dated on the 31st March.

  • 000 Board assurance and working together
  • 000 Board-level decision-making
  • 000 Business planning
  • 000 Change management
  • 000 Decision-making
  • 000 Effective communication and presentation
  • 000 Employee engagement
  • 000 Ethical and professional considerations
  • 000 Good governance
  • 000 Harnessing the power of clinical and financial collaboration
  • 000 How the NHS is funded and structured
  • 000 Influencing and negotiating
  • 000 Information systems in decision-making
  • 000 Innovation and improvement
  • 000 Integration in healthcare
  • 000 Investment decision making in the NHS
  • 000 Management and leadership
  • 000 Managing conflict
  • 000 Managing, motivating and leading teams
  • 000 Models of governance in the NHS
  • 000 Motivation and relationship management
  • 000 Negotiating and managing relationships
  • 000 Patient-Level costing
  • 000 Performance management
  • 000 Politics, policy and financial challenges
  • 000 Project management
  • 000 Risk management and governance
  • 000 Self-management, confidence and resilience
  • 000 The fundamentals of governance

E-learning catalogue

Details of the e-learning catalogue in ESR can be found through the following link:

ESR e-learning catalogue

E-learning Help

Course Completion

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Once an e-Learning course has been completed it will be no longer be displayed in the Portlet unless the course is part of a Learning Certification and is available for renewal.

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e-Learning linked to a Learning Certification

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  • Click the Renew and Play button to launch the course and ensure that your attempt will award any competencies attached to the Learning Certification.

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  • The e-Learning is linked to multiple Learning Certifications, these will need to be actioned individually by clicking the Go to Certifications button.