Testimonials

Read some of the many testimonials our clients have given us:

Providing staff with the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver better patient care during COVID-19

As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent, Health Education England wanted to assist NHS Trusts and their partners address the huge upskilling challenge with taking on new and returning staff, and rapidly upskilling existing staff faced with unprecedented pressures.

Clinicalskills.net was perfectly suited to meet this challenge;  the clinical guidelines are constantly updated, reflect the latest guidance, and the highly impactful and detailed illustrations provide the users with memorable step-by-step guides for the majority of clinical procedures required to provide the very best patient care.

Providing staff with the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver better patient care during COVID-19

As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent, Health Education England wanted to assist NHS Trusts and their partners address the huge upskilling challenge with taking on new and returning staff, and rapidly upskilling existing staff faced with unprecedented pressures.

Clinicalskills.net was perfectly suited to meet this challenge; the clinical guidelines are constantly updated, reflect the latest guidance, and the highly impactful and detailed illustrations provide the users with memorable step-by-step guides for the majority of clinical procedures required to provide the very best patient care.

Within days the clinicalskills.net team enabled access to specific content to all trusts and partner organisations who were not already active clinicalskills.net clients for the duration of the 3-month programme. The uptake was excellent, and it was gratifying to be able to meet this need for extra support and training so effectively. I am certain that the availability of this resource will have provided many staff with the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver better patient care, improve outcomes and save lives.

Feedback from the education teams, nursing directorates and individual staff members has been overwhelmingly positive and I know many of the organisations who benefited from access to clinicalskills.net during the programme have chosen to adopt clinicalskills.net to deliver a more blended learning approach to skills training – something that seems certain to be increasingly the norm as we emerge from the pandemic.

I would whole-heartedly endorse clinicalskills.net as a vital online reference resource and learning tool and would personally like to thank the entire team at clinicalskills.net for their responsiveness, commitment, and dedication throughout the pandemic.

Professor John Clark, Regional Head of Nursing, Health Education England

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Professor John ClarkRegional Head of Nursing - Health Education England

Providing staff with the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver better patient care during COVID-19

As the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic became apparent, Health Education England wanted to assist NHS Trusts and their partners address the huge upskilling challenge with taking on new and returning staff, and rapidly upskilling existing staff faced with unprecedented pressures.

Clinicalskills.net was perfectly suited to meet this challenge;  the clinical guidelines are constantly updated, reflect the latest guidance, and the highly impactful and detailed illustrations provide the users with memorable step-by-step guides for the majority of clinical procedures required to provide the very best patient care.

Within days the clinicalskills.net team enabled access to specific content to all trusts and partner organisations who were not already active clinicalskills.net clients for the duration of the 3-month programme. The uptake was excellent, and it was gratifying to be able to meet this need for extra support and training so effectively. I am certain that the availability of this resource will have provided many staff with the necessary knowledge and confidence to deliver better patient care, improve outcomes and save lives.

Feedback from the education teams, nursing directorates and individual staff members has been overwhelmingly positive and I know many of the organisations who benefited from access to clinicalskills.net during the programme have chosen to adopt clinicalskills.net to deliver a more blended learning approach to skills training – something that seems certain to be increasingly the norm as we emerge from the pandemic.

I would whole-heartedly endorse clinicalskills.net as a vital online reference resource and learning tool and would personally like to thank the entire team at clinicalskills.net for their responsiveness, commitment, and dedication throughout the pandemic.

Professor John Clark, Regional Head of Nursing, Health Education England

Accessible formats for various types of learners

clinicalskills.net is an invaluable resource for our students and staff here at the University of the West of England. The content is relevant, up to date, evidence based, and peer assessed. The site is easy to navigate and presents its material in accessible formats for various types of learners.  The tests, checklists, and notes tools are a great way to assess comprehension, encourage best practice and record continuing professional development. The clinicalskills.net team have always been super helpful and responsive with any of my queries.

Gemma WitchardSenior Technical Instructor - University of the West of England

An essential resource

clinicalskills.net is an essential resource that is embedded in our clinical skills and simulation teaching framework.

It supports students and academic staff to prepare for clinical skills sessions with detailed, accurate and up-to-date procedural guidelines. Lecturers and students alike utilise the step-by-step procedures in a variety of ways to enhance learning before, during and after a clinical skills session.

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Karen CairnduffSenior Lecturer in Clinical Skills Simulation, Lead for Adult Nursing - University of Hertfordshire

An essential resource

clinicalskills.net is an essential resource that is embedded in our clinical skills and simulation teaching framework.

It supports students and academic staff to prepare for clinical skills sessions with detailed, accurate and up-to-date procedural guidelines. Lecturers and students alike utilise the step-by-step procedures in a variety of ways to enhance learning before, during and after a clinical skills session.

Students enjoy using clinicalskills.net. They find it to be a vital resource to consolidate learning after a clinical skills session and a key point of reference during practice placements.

We have the reassurance that our students always have direct access to the latest evidence-based guidelines for clinical skills procedures. Just when you think a procedure needs revision, or a new one should be added, the team at clinicalskills.net, together with their expert authors, will have updated or created a new procedure to reflect current practice.

The team are always on hand to swiftly respond to any questions and support us with managing our student accounts.

Karen Cairnduff, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Skills, Simulation Lead for Adult Nursing, University of Hertfordshire

Aftersales support is excellent

Since 2020 we have integrated clinicalskills.net into our preregistration nursing curriculum. Students find it easy to navigate and appreciate the breakdown of a skill into picture format. As an academic I have found the aftersales care and support from clinicalskills.net to be excellent, receiving help and support when I needed it.

Dr Kate GoodhandRobert Gordon University Aberdeen

Extensive content is easy to access

At the University of Plymouth, all of our undergraduate nursing students, as well as some of our postgraduate nursing students, have access to the clinicalskills.net platform. The extensive, up-to-date and ever-growing content is easy to access and is used to support the delivery of undergraduate clinical skills teaching across the nursing curriculum. The medical calculations assessments are particularly helpful in preparing students for their numeracy examinations each year.

Suzi RobinsonLecturer in Adult Nursing, Clinical Skills and Practice Simulation Lead - Plymouth University

An excellent resource for our faculty

clinicalskills.net has been an integral part of our programme in Adult Nursing. We use the site as an illustrative learning resource as a pre-reading to clinical skills and simulated sessions. This provides students of varying learning needs with written and visual learning components. I also set a short quiz for students prior to each session to ensure that pre-reading has been completed, this is a helpful resource to monitor students’ progress. The system is accessible and easy to use as a faculty member and an excellent resource to our faculty.

Grace McDonaldLecturer in Nursing Education - King's College London

An invaluable resource for the clinical staff

clinicalskills.net has proven to be an invaluable resource for the clinical staff. Knowing that the evidence base is being kept current and that we can also annotate local context is helpful. The staff are very helpful in helping set up user accounts and continue to be supportive when we need them.

Jacqui BrycelandDeputy Nurse Director (Interim) Head of Nursing: Care Assurance and Safe Staffing - NHS Forth Valley

Day-to-day support from the clinicalskills.net team has been outstanding

clinicalskills.net has helped enhance and complement our learning systems at the university.  Students and staff have found it easy to access and the detailed pictures and supporting evidence have been invaluable for research and practical sessions, where students can access the information as they need it. The day-to-day support of the team at clinicalskills.net has been outstanding.

Nicola GuthrieDeputy Head of School for Skills and Simulation - Anglia Ruskin University

Supports the knowledge and skills of our students and staff

clinicalskills.net is an excellent resource to support the knowledge and skills of our students and staff and enables them to remain up to date with current best practice. The aftersales support has been incredibly responsive to our needs

Emily SaltProfessional Lead Adult Nursing and Safeguarding Lead - Keele University

Standardising nursing skills throughout the country

Can I just say that the resources you provide are fantastic! What makes them more valuable is the fact that they help to standardise nursing skills throughout the country.

Renette EllsonSenior Lecturer Adult Nursing - University of Central Lancashire

Feedback has been amazing

We have been using clinicalskills.net at Leonard Cheshire since December 2018 and feedback so far has been amazing. One of our nurses told me yesterday that clinicalskills.net is better than another well-known online resource she is used to using, so she will be using clinicalskills.net in future. Team leaders are loving having the resource to broaden their skills, but also printing out the pdfs of the procedures is giving them confidence as they can literally follow the step-by-step guide. From my perspective, word is spreading nicely now and our quality team and clinical governance team are recommending to services that they use your system, which is why the number of licenses has grown as it has, and there is a high level of enthusiasm from staff.

Wendy BennettLearning and Development Operations Manager - Leonard Cheshire Disability

Delighted with the new clinicalskills.net assessment package

At LSBU we were seeking a method to support skills sessions, using blended learning, and to provide opportunities for students to test their knowledge of clinical skills. As we were already using the clinicalskills.net procedures, it was an obvious next step to begin using the newly added tests generated from the clinicalskills.net question banks…

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Delighted with the new clinicalskills.net assessment package

“At LSBU we were seeking a method to support skills sessions, using blended learning, and to provide opportunities for students to test their knowledge of clinical skills. As we were already using the clinicalskills.net procedures, it was an obvious next step to begin using the newly added tests generated from the clinicalskills.net question banks. We designed our own tests so that students could review their knowledge of the procedures such as Basic Life Support, Manual Handling, Infection Control and Medicine Management. As part of our blended learning strategy for curriculum delivery, the tests aided students’ preparation for skills lab sessions and allowed much more focused teaching and facilitation of practical skills during the allotted time.

Most students were compliant with the blended learning and the test activities. They enjoyed the activities and found it useful to them. Lecturers valued the certificate printout for the students, which provided evidence that they had completed the blended learning and test activities prior to class. We found that setting a threshold for a pass helped students to take the activity seriously. Having the tests increased the time available for delivering high-quality supervised practice. The tests helped to enhance students’ understanding of the topics, and made the sessions more meaningful. We are delighted with this new addition to the clinicalskills.net package and we plan to develop our use of the tests further to accompany many more skills sessions.”

Gary Francis, Associate Professor, London South Bank University

Gary FrancisAssociate Professor - London South Bank University

Delighted with the new clinicalskills.net assessment package

“At LSBU we were seeking a method to support skills sessions, using blended learning, and to provide opportunities for students to test their knowledge of clinical skills. As we were already using the clinicalskills.net procedures, it was an obvious next step to begin using the newly added tests generated from the clinicalskills.net question banks. We designed our own tests so that students could review their knowledge of the procedures such as Basic Life Support, Manual Handling, Infection Control and Medicine Management. As part of our blended learning strategy for curriculum delivery, the tests aided students’ preparation for skills lab sessions and allowed much more focused teaching and facilitation of practical skills during the allotted time.

Most students were compliant with the blended learning and the test activities. They enjoyed the activities and found it useful to them. Lecturers valued the certificate printout for the students, which provided evidence that they had completed the blended learning and test activities prior to class. We found that setting a threshold for a pass helped students to take the activity seriously. Having the tests increased the time available for delivering high-quality supervised practice. The tests helped to enhance students’ understanding of the topics, and made the sessions more meaningful.  We are delighted with this new addition to the clinicalskills.net package and we plan to develop our use of the tests further to accompany many more skills sessions.”

Gary Francis, Associate Professor, London South Bank University

Highly customisable and very simple to use, with excellent aftersales service

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust began subscribing to clinicalskills.net early in 2016. Our subscription provides access to both the procedures and the assessments. Our Clinical Skills Trainer has already incorporated the resource into the delivery of clinical skills training and is using it as pre-training material for HCA bands 3 and 4. The feedback has been very positive…

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Highly customisable and very simple to use, with excellent aftersales serviceRoyal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust began subscribing to clinicalskills.net early in 2016. Our subscription provides access to both the procedures and the assessments. Our Clinical Skills Trainer has already incorporated the resource into the delivery of clinical skills training and is using it as pre-training material for HCA bands 3 and 4. The feedback has been very positive, with comments on how the website is very easy to login to, read and use. The Clinical Skills Trainer really likes the format, particularly the step-by-step presentation and the quality of the illustrations. She has not found any discrepancies in the information provided.

Our Director of Medical Education/Deputy Medical Director has also reviewed clinicalskills.net and is very excited! He particularly commented on how good the user-interface is. As clinicalskills.net is highly customisable, it allows organisations both to tailor procedures and devise their own assessments, aligning with local policy and needs; he has great plans to extend its use for our undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees.

Our Head of Clinical Education and Learning loves the idea of having illustrations rather than videos, because these are so easy to update if/when guidance changes.

The library agreed to fund the resource because we thought that, long term, having clinicalskills.net would be more beneficial to staff (and ultimately patient care) than the purchase of additional textbooks. Given that the Learning Management System for clinicalskills.net is very simple to use, the library team were tasked with creating two e-learning programmes to address patient safety concerns in the Trust, on ‘Safe Placement of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes’ and ‘Clostridium Difficile’ – the idea being that test scores can be incorporated into the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) as evidence of training.

I particularly would like to thank the staff at clinicalskills.net for their excellent aftersales service. Nothing is ever too much trouble and they are always open to ideas/suggestions for making the resource work for us. They have supported us throughout, not only on ideas around the possible structure of the e-learning programmes but also by responding speedily to other requests from us, such as incorporating our Trust logo to highlight the assessments we created ourselves on clinicalskills.net.

Finally, a quote from Our Vocational Training Manager:

“clinicalskills.net is a very useful resource for bands 2-4 within any organisation. It is adaptable as policy varies across NHS organisations. I found it to be clear with the simple display of procedures. I would recommend this to all.”

Angela Hall, Library Service Manager, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Angela HallLibrary Service Manager - The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

Highly customisable and very simple to use, with excellent aftersales service

Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust began subscribing to clinicalskills.net early in 2016. Our subscription provides access to both the procedures and the assessments. Our Clinical Skills Trainer has already incorporated the resource into the delivery of clinical skills training and is using it as pre-training material for HCA bands 3 and 4. The feedback has been very positive, with comments on how the website is very easy to login to, read and use. The Clinical Skills Trainer really likes the format, particularly the step-by-step presentation and the quality of the illustrations. She has not found any discrepancies in the information provided.

Our Director of Medical Education/Deputy Medical Director has also reviewed clinicalskills.net and is very excited! He particularly commented on how good the user-interface is. As clinicalskills.net is highly customisable, it allows organisations both to tailor procedures and devise their own assessments, aligning with local policy and needs; he has great plans to extend its use for our undergraduate and postgraduate medical trainees.

Our Head of Clinical Education and Learning loves the idea of having illustrations rather than videos, because these are so easy to update if/when guidance changes.

The library agreed to fund the resource because we thought that, long term, having clinicalskills.net would be more beneficial to staff (and ultimately patient care) than the purchase of additional textbooks. Given that the Learning Management System for clinicalskills.net is very simple to use, the library team were tasked with creating two e-learning programmes to address patient safety concerns in the Trust, on ‘Safe Placement of Nasogastric  Feeding Tubes’ and ‘Clostridium Difficile’ – the idea being that test scores can be incorporated into the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) as evidence of training.

I particularly would like to thank the staff at clinicalskills.net for their excellent aftersales service. Nothing is ever too much trouble and they are always open to ideas/suggestions for making the resource work for us. They have supported us throughout, not only on ideas around the possible structure of the e-learning programmes but also by responding speedily to other requests from us, such as incorporating our Trust logo to highlight the assessments we created ourselves on clinicalskills.net.

Finally, a quote from Our Vocational Training Manager:

“clinicalskills.net is a very useful resource for bands 2-4 within any organisation. It is adaptable as policy varies across NHS organisations. I found it to be clear with the simple display of procedures. I would recommend this to all.”

Angela Hall, Library Service Manager, The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust

An invaluable resource

“clinicalskills.net is an invaluable resource because it provides a readily available, user-friendly guide to a wide range of clinical skills that most importantly is regularly updated, which means that staff are able to provide true evidence-based practice to our patients.

The range of clinical skills we are able to access on clinicalskills.net is constantly being expanded so learners and professionals from all stages of their nursing careers are catered for.

The use of pictures and text provide for different learning styles. Useful links to other sites are provided. [clinicalskills.net has an] easy to print-off format [and it is] easy to access to the information you require.

Students who have used clinicalskills.net throughout their University education programmes are now becoming qualified nurses in our clinical areas and are continuing to use clinicalskills.net in their work with current students.”

Louise GoodallSenior Practice Development Nurse - Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

Much more up to date than many of our policies

clinicalskills.net is the best thing since sliced bread for nurses–there is no other resource like it! All of our nursing staff have been very enthusiastic about it. It is much more up to date than many of our policies and procedures are–and it is much more visual and easy to follow than they are.

Gary SuttonKnowledge & Evidence Service Manager - Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust