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GP Coaching Service 2026–27 – Applications Open
NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is inviting applications from qualified GPs currently in practice in Scotland for the next round of the GP Coaching Service.
Up to seven hours of coaching support is available as part of the 2026–27 programme. Matching with coaches will take place in waves over the summer and autumn months.
Further information, including details on eligibility and how to apply, is available on the Learn to Change (L2C) website.
Colleagues are encouraged to share this opportunity within GP networks to help raise awareness and support access to the programme.
Scottish Improvement Leader Programme: Cohort 56 recruiting now
Applications are now open for Scottish Improvement Leader (ScIL) Cohort 56. The programme supports staff already involved in quality improvement to further develop skills in leading, coaching and supporting improvement across health, social care and wider public services.
- Applications opened: 1 June 2026
- Closing date: 10:00am on 31 August 2026
The ScIL Cohort 56 Application Pack provides full details for prospective applicants.
For this cohort, NHS Dumfries and Galloway has one Health and Social Care place and one Excellence in Care place. Local applications will be shortlisted in line with local strategic priorities.
Applicants must complete the QI Essentials learner pathway before starting the programme. Further information is available on the ScIL Recruitment page on Turas Learn.
If you’d like any help with your application or want to discuss suitability, please contact Paula.Riley@nhs.scot (Health and Social Care place) or Karen.Hamilton6@nhs.scot (Excellence in Care place)
Clinical Waste Training
To access login into Turas and click: nhs.learnprouk.com/lms/user_level/ModuleLaunch.aspx?ModuleId=22681&Version=2
NMAHP Personal Development Planning Hub
The NMAHP Personal Development Planning Hub focuses on the appraisal process and brings together resources that may support NMAHP development journeys, including personal development planning and reflective practice.
Facilitation of Learning Programme
self–directed online learning units
For further information and to book a place please contact:
Department of Nursing
Thriving in a Digital Age Pathways
The Digital and Data Pathway is updated on a monthly basis, and the Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence Pathways each quarter. The resources are reviewed and refreshed with new and updated learning to keep content relevant, practical, and aligned to national priorities. The three pathways have now been updated for April. Updates include videos, articles, reflective activities and case studies from across the workforce, showing how digital, AI and cyber security are being applied in practice across the wider workforce.
Staff are encouraged to visit the Pathways regularly to:
- Access new and updated learning content
- Revisit pathway steps relevant to their role or current challenges
- Reflect on how digital, data and service design principles apply in their day‑to‑day work
- Support personal development and team conversations around digital capability
We also have two recently launched pathways:
- The Digital Leadership Pathway – providing guidance on the programmes, resources, and opportunities available to support your development and build the skills and confidence needed to be a Digital Leader.
- The Technology Enabled Care Pathway – supporting the develop and understanding of Technology Enabled Care and how it is used to support people and service delivery across health and social care.
🔗 Visit the Thriving in a Digital Age Pathways Site here
Understanding Bias and Taking Action
26th August 2026, 10.00-12.00 on Teams or
6th October 2026, 10.00-12.00 on Teams
This workshop is designed to support participants to increase skills and competence as an inclusive colleague. During the workshop, participants will:
- Explore the concept of ‘in groups’ and ‘out groups’ and how powerful they are in influencing behaviour
- Reflect on conscious and unconscious bias and consider how bias is established, reinforced and manifest through discrimination and microaggressions
- Consider how we challenge the roles we play in reinforcing and perpetuating bias
- Recognise opportunities to take action in day to day life through allyship
Some feedback from previous participants:
- ‘Thank you, really insightful and interesting session’
- ‘Really enjoyed this session, very thought provoking about everyday behaviours’
- ‘Very useful having a protected space to think about these important issues.’
- ‘Very interesting session, I am now more aware and more confident to challenge bias’
- ‘The session was captivating, full of interaction, and truly inspirational.’
Book this course on LearnPro. After logging in, use the search bar at the top of the Dashboard, type in D&G 5208 EMP – Understanding Bias and Taking Action and select the date that works for you. Your manager will be asked to approve this request.
Bystander Awareness
22nd September, 10.00-11.30 on Teams or
10th November, 10.00-11.30 on Teams
We know that bullying, discrimination and disrespect in the workplace can have a significant negative impact on those who experience it, leading to stress, mental health challenges and long term psychological damage. When we witness behaviour that isn’t compassionate and inclusive, we might feel that we want to help, but it can be difficult to know what to do, particularly if these behaviours have become an accepted part of working life.
This session will increase your understanding of:
- Barriers that we might experience to taking action
- The impact that a bystandercan have by taking different kinds of actions
- Simple tools that you can use to take action if you witness bullying, discrimination or disrespect in the workplace
Some feedback from previous participants:
- ‘Really enjoyable and gained a lot from it – now I have a better idea of what can be done to stop negative behaviour’
- ‘a really useful session – it would be so beneficial to all staff to undertake’
- ‘excellent, well structured and succinct’
- ‘I feel better equipped to take effective action and feel I have a ‘toolkit’ of options which I wasn’t aware of before’
Book this course on LearnPro. After logging in, use the search bar at the top of the Dashboard, type in D&G 5207 EMP – Bystander Awareness and select the date that works for you. Your manager will be asked to approve this request.
Health inequalities and Value Based Health and Care Resource
NES & The Realistic Medicine Team are pleased to announce the launch of our new Health inequalities and Value Based Health and Care resource.
Through practical examples and reflective questions, this resource helps all of us:
- To better understand why inequalities arise and the key drivers of these
- To recognise how Realistic Medicine and Value Based Health and Care can support more equitable outcomes
- To identify how we can overcome some of these challenges individually as well as when we work with others in our day-to-day roles
This module is for anyone who wants to contribute to providing fairer, more compassionate health and care across Scotland. Learn more by accessing our promotional flyer.
Acknowledgements and thanks to: Dr. Carey Lunan, GP Chair of Scottish Deep End Project, Dr. Cristina Fernandez-Garcia, Specialist Lead Health Inequalities at NES and Dr. Lisa Adams, Public Health Specialty Registrar.
LearnPro Module on Stoma Care
NHS Dumfries and Galloway are pleased to inform you that a new Stoma Care Module is now available on LearnPro.
Stoma Care is a fundamental aspect of safe, compassionate and effective patient care across both acute and community settings. With increasing numbers of patients living with colostomies, ileostomies and urostomies , it is essential that clinical staff have a sound understanding of: –
- Routine stoma assessment
- Early identification of complications
- Peristomal sin care
- Appliance management
- Supporting patients with independence and dignity.
High quality stoma care directly impacts patient safety, reduces avoidable complications, supports shorter hospital stays and smoother discharge planning. This module aligns with national standards and professional expectations, including: –
- The NHS Scotland Quality Strategy – delivery safe, effective and person-centred care.
- The Healthcare Improvement Scotland focus on harm reduction and improvement in patient outcomes.
- The Nursing and Midwifery Council Code – which requires nurses to maintain competence and delivery of evidence based care.
All registered nurses, health care support workers and any other relevant clinical staff are encouraged to complete the module.
For any further questions or support please contact Annie Quinn, Stoma Care Nurse Specialist on 01387 241248 or email dg.stomacareservice@nhs.scot
Planning for Retirement and Your Pension and the Public Service Pension Remedy
Pension course information and links of how to book the courses.
Risk Assessment -Training Workshops 2026
Interested in learning more about conducting suitable and sufficient risk assessments and using risk assessment language?
Want to learn about the law on risk assessment, what the key 5 steps recommended by the HSE are and learning what a hazard or risk actually is?
What are control measures? How do you use a risk scoring matrix?
Workshops (with limited places) are being offered to NHS staff throughout 2026 on the following dates:
14 July 2026
9 September 2026
10 November 2026
The training venue will be:
Meeting Room 6 at Mountainhall Treatment Centre, Bankend Road, Dumfries
DG1 4HP and will run from 9.30am – 12.30pm.
Bring your own coffee/tea
(Cafè Mountainhall is next door to training room)
Email : dg.occhealth@nhs.scot or call 01387 244626 and ask for Elaine Simpson/Scott McGill or book via LearnPro. Course code: D&G 5109.
No pre-course work required…but there is a test paper at the end of the workshop to check learning so bring your smart phone as it is accessed via a QR Code
Cost: FREE
HIV eLearning Modules
A suite of eLearning modules are live and available on the HIV Transmission Elimination Page on Turas which have been developed in line with the Outline of Requirements for Improving the Detection and Diagnosis of HIV in Non-HIV Specialists including:
- Recognition and Diagnosis of HIV
- HIV, Stigma and You
- Confident Conversations about HIV Testing
Equality & Diversity Learning
Trauma Aware Workplace programme 2026
This highly evaluated programme is a joint initiative between NHS Dumfries and Galloway Equality and Diversity, Spiritual Care and Psychology. It responds to a need for a more trauma aware workplace identified through the Voices for Change project, which gathered information about the experiences of women and disabled people in working in Health and Social Care in Dumfries and Galloway. Participants are welcome to register for individual sessions, or for the full series of 3 sessions.
Feedback from previous participants:
- ‘I learned many things that made my understanding of trauma deeper, including how trauma experience is very different to each individual and how the brain is built and scans the environment for threats.’
- ‘The session has made me be able to view situations from another viewpoint, identify the importance of self care so I am able to cope and deal with the challenges faced within my job role’
- ‘The whole session was useful and delivered it in a way that could be understood by everyone, using examples that made it relatable.’
- ‘Useful for the focus of the trauma care to be centred on us as professionals and to have a reminder of the importance of self care to avoid vicarious trauma’
- A great session which gives good pointers and practices for our own service’
To register complete:
Trauma Aware Workforce Programme 2026 – Fill in form
Lunch and Learn: Introduction to Psychological Trauma
Either 3rd September 2026, 12.30-14.00 on Teams
Or 4th November 2026, on Teams
Join Rab McColm, Lead Psychological Therapist for Psychology Trauma Services, NHS Dumfries and Galloway to increase your understanding of:
· The nature of trauma – what is it?
· The widespread impact of trauma
· How trauma affects people and their experiences and behaviour
· Support mechanisms
· What we can do – being trauma aware in the workplace
Lunch and Learn: Self care in working with trauma
8th October 2026, 12.30-14.00 on Teams
Join Nathan Mesnikoff, NHS Dumfries and Galloway Spiritual Care Lead to increase your understanding of:
· How stress is related to our fight or flight reactions
· How working with the traumatized can traumatize us (and how to lower that risk)
· The important difference between empathy and compassion
· Ways to support yourself and colleagues working in high-intensity environments including brief introductions to mindfulness, gratitude practices, and self-compassion.
Lunch and Learn: Creating trauma aware teams
26th November 2026, 12.30-14.00 on Teams
Join Kerry Kalloway and Kerry Riddell, Organisational Development Facilitators, to increase your understanding of:
- How trauma can affect people’s experiences and behaviour at work
- Why trauma awareness helps teams to build resilience and work better together
- What we can do – tools for creating trauma aware teams
Dementia Champion Update Sessions 2026
Email dg.dementia@nhs.scot to book a space
10th Sept, 9:30am-12:30pm DGRI Seminar room 5 (hybrid option)
Considering Capacity
Presenter: Dr Fraser Gibb, Psychiatrist
Email dg.dementia@nhs.scot to book a space
Coffee & Tea will be available in the room. Please bring your own mug and a £1 contribution if you’d like to help yourself to drinks and biscuits
Adults with Incapacity project
This short video introduces new staff learning modules, part of the Adults With Incapacity project. All the material is available on Turas at the link below
Turas Once for Scotland: Adults with Incapacity learning site.
Care Opinion training webinars
All staff using Care Opinion
For more details and to register, visit https://www.careopinion.org.uk/info/support-webinars
Community Staff-High Risk Manual Handling Training
All community staff are now able to book onto High Risk Manual Handling update Training via Learnpro using course code 1987.
TURAS training: Duty of candour, FAI, compassionate communication and adverse event management
Duty of candour e-learning modules suitable for all health, social care staff and students. How to enact the legislation requiring openness and honesty when things do wrong (you must be logged into TURAS to complete) Duty of candour | Turas | Learn
Fatal Accident Inquiry Resource launched with video from the central legal office. Fatal Accident Inquiry | Support Around Death.
Adverse event management what people can expect from the organisation involved Adverse event management | Turas | Learn
Yellow Card ADR e-Learning Modules Update
- 6 modules developed by the Yellow Card Centre Scotland and NHS Education for Scotland covering key topics around adverse drug reactions and pharmacovigilance
- Additional accessibility options available
- Click here for the Turas ADR eLearning Modules
These modules have been developed by the Yellow Card Centre (YCC) Scotland in conjunction with NHS Education for Scotland (NES). If you have any comments or feedback regarding the content or functionality of the resource please contact YCCScotland@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk.
Online learning – Long COVID for GP
A series of virtual educational sessions centred around long COVID is now underway.
The events, hosted by the Scottish Centre for Project ECHO (SCfPE), take the format of ‘all teach, all learn’ forums. They follow a successful pilot run by SCfPE alongside NHS National Services Scotland in 2024.
Targeted at GPs working for NHS Scotland or with local or national government, each session begins with a short subject presentation from the facilitator. From there participants in the sessions are invited to share and discuss real anonymised patient and system cases.
These cases assist participants to master complexity in real situations, explore good practice and consider how this will improve outcomes for patients.
Book to attend future sessions by visiting: Long COVID GPs ECHO | Project Echo
Chronic Pain Turas Learn Training – For all staff
A new Chronic Pain Turas learning toolkit and online knowledge hub are now available to all NHS Scotland Health and Care staff to deepen their understanding of a condition that affects 38% of adults in Scotland. The Scottish Health Survey 2022)
Everyone working in a public-facing role – including clinical, administrative, domestic and estates colleagues – is asked to complete the training. The HUB includes more in depth resources and supports two sets of training modules – Informed and Skilled.
Being informed about chronic pain means health and care staff will be in a stronger position to support someone with chronic pain to access the appropriate services and resources.
This NHS Education for Scotland (NES) resource has been developed in collaboration with the National Pain Education Group to promote understanding and learning on Chronic Pain.
To access the Turas resource visit: Chronic Pain Knowledge Hub | Turas | Learn
For further resources on Chronic Pain visit:
Shared Decision Making module
The Realistic Medicine Team and NES have launched their new Shared Decision Making module which is now published on Turas.
Realistic Medicine and Value Based Health and Care Learning Resources
This eLearning resource is for everyone working in health and care in Scotland exploring why this approach is important, breaking down barriers and supporting people to make informed decisions.
For any individuals who don’t have access to Turas, please see the links below to the videos included in the module:-
Suicide Prevention Modules
NES have launched four new Modules on Turas Learn on Suicide prevention. Click on the link below to access:
Turas Module: Dealing with bereavement in the workplace
Those of us working in health and social care may come across situations where we experience the death of a colleague. Knowing what to say and do in these situations to provide support to ourselves and others can be challenging and naturally people may feel apprehensive.
The NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Bereavement Education Programme has recently launched a suite of 5 e-Learning modules that cover certain aspects of responding to a colleague’s death.
The modules draw both on current guidance to enable you to offer a person-centred approach which is educationally evidence informed, as well as incorporating real-life case studies which can be used for reflection and discussion.
Please note – You will need to login with your Turas account to view the experiencing the death of a colleague modules below:
- Experiencing the Death of a Colleague: Module 1 – An introduction to grief & bereavement
- Experiencing the death of a colleague: Module 2 – Sharing the news
- Experiencing the death of a colleague: Module 3 – Consideration for employers and managers
- Experiencing the death of a colleague: Module 4 – Support & wellbeing
- Experiencing the death of a colleague: Module 5 – Memorialising & remembering
You may wish to work through all five modules in order, or you may choose to only work through one or some of the modules, depending upon your learning needs and goals. However, for a full understanding of the topic it is recommended that you undertake all five modules.
We would be grateful if you could share this with relevant networks / individuals.
For any questions, please contact SupportAroundDeath@nes.scot.nhs.uk.
Environmental sustainability eLearning course on TURAS.
The course is for all NHSScotland staff and can be found on TURAS Learn*. It provides an introduction to sustainability concepts, topics and issues, and will develop understanding of:
- the effect the environment has on human health
- the environmental impacts of delivering healthcare services
- action that NHSScotland is taking to become more sustainable
- action we can take as individuals to contribute and make a difference
The articles are live on the Sustainability Action website
Clinical Education training calendar test of change
The Clinical Education training sessions are now listed on LearnPro for the rest of this year. A training calendar will not be sent to the wards on a monthly basis, with the exception of Galloway Community Hospital who will still receive a calendar for the next few months.
Venepuncture and cannulation, IV medicine administration, CVADs and Vital signs will be running every 4 weeks
Male catheterisation, ECG and IV opioids will run every 6 weeks
Ear irrigation, PEG and NG management will run every 8 weeks.
The codes for all sessions are listed on the Clinical Education teams page on BEACON
Any different sessions that are running will be advertised via email and BEACON.
Medical Devices Level 1: General Awareness All staff Online Module
Medical Devices Level 1: General Awareness | Turas | Learn (nhs.scot)
Medical device safety is extremely important and in order to increase awareness of medical device safety the attached is a monthly Flash Report from IRIC (Incident Reporting and Investigation Centre).
The Corporate Risk Manager audits reported adverse events to determine if a report to IRIC is required; however, anyone can submit a report to IRIC and guidance is included in the Flash Report.
The Corporate Risk Manager recommends that any potential or actual medical device adverse events are reported via Datix
Basic Life Support New training available to all staff
Did you know that if you have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital you have a 1 in 10 chance of surviving? In order to address this inequality Scottish Government has asked for all NHS Scotland Boards to provide training to staff to be able to respond and improve this from happening.
Learning and Development have worked with the Resus team to create a new elearning module which has been added to LearnPro. To access this module, log in to LearnPro and then click on show all elearning then type in basic life support.
Public Protection Partnership Learning
All Public Protection Partnership Learning and Development can be found by clicking on the link below:
https://www.dgppp.org.uk/article/24289/Learning-and-Development