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NMH | 2024 214 Education Ongoing Training Extensive ongoing staff training for the MN-CMS system, staff health and wellbeing, medication safety, medication reconciliation and continuing professional development are ongoing. The annual Charter Day Symposium was held in January 2024. The annual study day for General Practitioners was held in November 2024. The Labour and Birth Unit (LBU) hold multidisciplinary weekly skills teaching and "LBU Topic of the month" and there is ongoing training within the antenatal, postnatal and gynaecology wards and the antenatal clinic appropriate to their work. Site specific training Different departments and wards offer training specific to their scope of practice. For example, in the Fetal Medicine Department, Valerie Spillane CMM 3 offers a 'NMH Basic Ultrasound Skills Programme' to the Community Midwives. The programme teaches how to perform point-of-care ultrasound in their community clinics. In the Operating Theatre, some of the education trainings they do range from technical use of different machines used and short education sessions / mini simulations on the following: difficult airway simulation training, capnography, malignant hyperthermia, ROTEM guided management pathway, uteretonics and safe skin to skin Education weeks Similar to previous years, we provided inter-professional and multidisciplinary training weeks in sepsis, neonatal resuscitation and medication safety. Mandatory training The hospital comply with all mandatory and statutory training requirements as part of workplace effectiveness and safety for all (e.g. Manual Handling, CTG/ K2, Basic Life Support, Hand Hygiene etc.) PROMPT – Practical Obstetric Multi- professional Training It can be challenging to provide regular PROMPT training sessions while also providing clinical care. We are very grateful to both the former Ireland East Hospital Group training grant and the NMH Foundation who have jointly funded two pieces of essential simulation equipment to the cost of 33K which will benefit training in emergency care. Staff education and qualifications Aoife Lennon (Simulation) and Lavanya Lakshmanan (Medical Education) are completing Masters in Education at the University of Galway. Staff research and innovation As ever, the popular and well attended RISE meeting (Research and Innovation Table 1: Weekly multidisciplinary teaching programme Symposium Exhibition) has highlighted quality improvements, research, and innovation across all staff members in the hospital, both clinical and non-clinical, highlighting why for many this is a place to be proud to work, despite ongoing challenges. Multidisciplinary medical education committee S Al-Tikriti, N Adnan, V Broderick, C Brophy, I Browne, A Calnan, P Calpin, L Crowley, R Ffrench O'Carroll, A Hickey, M Higgins (Chair), N Higgins, S Knowles, L Lakshmanan, A Lennon, N O'Riordan, C Pugh, I Shanahan, L Sheehy – the NMH MDT Education Group. Prof Mary Higgins, Consultant Obstetrician & Gynecologist. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY Handover and MDT discussion twice a day on Labour ward, every weekday and weekend day Monthly: Accreta Monthly: Rhesus Fetal Medicine Maternal Medicine Emergency care Labour ward care Theatre Education Grand Rounds Monthly: Morbidity and Mortality "Fetal Friday" training