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Project ECHO, which stands for ‘Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes’, is an innovative and new way of learning in healthcare. ECHO is an online telementoring network that brings healthcare organisations together via video link, to form an online community, share best practices and support each other.
Project ECHO facilitates the delivery of a free and tailored programme of training and education across South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to multiple sites where there is a training and/or education need. This then creates a community of practice that supports service delivery, sharing of knowledge, and support to staff, often in underserved areas.
Project ECHO’s mission is to make medical knowledge as accessible as possible for people all over the world and fosters a spirit of learning from each other in a safe environment.
Training and education are led by a specialist ‘Hub’ to multiple other healthcare sites, for example, Care Homes, and GPs, to share knowledge and expertise through virtual meetings, teaching sessions, and case presentations. Together, ECHO members can discuss particular cases which they have found challenging to manage and determine the best course of action together.
Project ECHO enables:
In South Yorkshire we have the following hubs:
The benefits are myriad but if we take nursing homes, they report that the benefits are:
Each hub facilitates training in response to the local need and delivers a number of courses for example palliative care training to care homes, Learning Disability training to the system (across the health and social care sector in South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw), Long Covid training in Sheffield. These support the ICS priorities and are delivered to multiple staffing groups – see diagram.
St Luke’s ECHO Super-hub- Michelle McKenzie Smith echo@hospicesheffield.co.uk
Barnsley ECHO Hub - Rachael Goodyear - rachael.goodyear@nhs.net
Rotherham, Doncaster & Bassetlaw ECHO hub Teresa Candido- 01302 644787 teresa.candido@nhs.net
Sheffield Children’s ECHO hub- Jenna Whelpton jenna.whelpton@nhs.net