FAST Healthcare

History

FAST has remained on course, since its 2003 incorporation, in its aim to create, publish and market short (up to 90-minute), work-based, interactive e-learning for its principal market: health, community and social care professionals mainly located in NHS Primary and Acute Trusts and Local Authority Social Service Departments. Courses created are kept under constant review, and updated according to the advice from FAST’s Subject Matter Experts and by taking on user-feedback too. In this way, existing product is kept alive and current, while FAST also makes judgments on the adoption of new course topics, all this being made possible by FAST’s continuous and regular contact with its market involving visits to clients and potential clients all over the country.The potential initial market which FAST sought to address was the 1.4 million employees in the NHS and some 700, 000 employees in social services.

Advantages of studying here

Consistency has been maintained in the style and “look and feel” of FAST’s e-learning products, which have found rapid acceptance in the market, with outstanding feedback from users as to the ease and effectiveness of FAST’s approach to e-learning. In the creation of each course, FAST has responded to training needs identified by the market itself, and by working very closely with Subject Matter Experts, the right course, with the right content and the right assessment has always resulted in good learning outcomes.For this reason, FAST’s focus, is to widen its product reach focusing on key risk areas led by HM government and Care Quality Commission agenda’s for change. An illustration of this is FAST’s new Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children which supports the current ‘Every Child Matters’ agenda and Standard 5 of the NSF for Children, Young People and Maternity Services. Our Emergency or Basic Life Support course is inspired by Resuscitation Specialists.

Areas of specialisation

To date, FAST’s courses consist: (i) Diabetes Mellitus; (ii) COPD; (iii) Clinical Negligence; (iv) Care of the Elderly; (v) Safeguarding Children; (vi) Clostridium Difficile Infection; and (vii) Emergency or Basic Life Support Skills (incl. AED) and CARING for PEOPLE with DEMENTIA.FAST’s aim is to become, as one of the UK’s leading e-learning providers in its sector, an organisation of first choice on a national scale for its portfolio and for its high quality client care and service. It is our intention to create a quality dominance in our initial public sector market, but to increase the reach to a host of organisations which must seek the most sound, efficient and cost-effective means to maintain staff training to the highest levels.

Description

FAST, a leading UK provider of healthcare e-learning was established in 2002 to create short courses delivered through e-learning and addressing topics identified by NHS Trusts, Care Agencies and Care Homes, Social Services and other agencies.FAST has developed from a one-product business, to an organisation that has acquired a highly respected place in its market environment: one of the ten Strategic Health Authorities (SHA) has Licences to offer all of FAST’s e-learning to some 64 NHS Trusts with a potential of over 100,000 users; the Yorkshire SHA has awarded FAST with a “preferred supplier” status for the commissioning of new e-learning; FAST’s courses were selected in a NHS trial to test out the new National LMS; FAST’s clients include organisations spread throughout the UK, including Wales, Scotland, Cumbria, Midlands, the South West, South East and East of England and London.