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Training and education resources for healthcare professionals
At Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, we believe everyone living with chest, heart, stroke, and long COVID conditions deserves to live a full life—with the right support, at the right time, in the right place. Our No Life Half Lived strategy is built on this belief, ensuring access to quality self management and community recovery for all.
Our Professional Engagement Framework is designed with you in mind—whether you’re a healthcare professional, partner organisation, or someone using our community healthcare support services. We focus on delivering trusted education and health information that empowers informed choices and improves outcomes. Our Mission: To empower healthcare professionals and service users through education and health information—ensuring that No Life is Half Lived.
1. Raising Awareness and Building Networks
We’re working to make CHSS a recognised leader in health education and support. Through digital outreach, professional networks, and partnerships, we aim to connect more people with our resources and build a community of healthcare professionals and service users who benefit from our services.
2. High-Quality, Inclusive Education and Health Information
We’re committed to making our resources accessible to everyone. That means offering materials in multiple languages, aphasia-friendly formats, and adapting content for different learning needs—so you can access trusted, evidence-based information that supports better health decisions and outcomes.
3. Structured, Evidence-Based Learning Environment
Our blended learning approach combines face-to-face education with eLearning modules hosted on our planned Learning Management System. Whether you’re a professional or a service user, you’ll find high-quality, regularly reviewed content developed under a clear governance framework to ensure accuracy and relevance.
4. Demonstrating Impact and Driving Improvement
In accordance with CHSS values we listen, learn, and adapt. By collecting feedback and usage data, we continuously improve our education and health information services. This helps us tailor our resources to your needs and demonstrate real impact to our stakeholders—ensuring our offer remains effective and meaningful.
We provide national stroke training to healthcare professionals across Scotland, delivered by our National Educator, a post funded by the Scottish Government.
The current focus of the National Educator is to deliver FAST and Thrombectomy education, supported by the Scottish Ambulance Service, to healthcare professionals in NHS Health Boards in Scotland.
Our Link Up and Learn virtual education sessions also provide training to healthcare professionals involved in, or with an interest in, stroke care. Delivered in partnership with the Scottish Stroke Improvement Programme, these one-hour sessions take place fortnightly and cover a wide range of topics from colleagues working in stroke care, with time for discussion and knowledge sharing.
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Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, in partnership with local NHS Boards, deliver local stroke training programmes aimed at healthcare professionals and social care staff.
We currently have a Stroke Educator in NHS Fife and NHS Grampian.
A variety of training courses are available which range from introductory level to advanced and give access to the training required to meet the National Stroke Education Pathway. Stroke and TIA Assessment Training (STAT) is also delivered within the local areas.
Our eLearning portfolio contains learning for healthcare professionals, patients and carers, covering chest, heart and stroke conditions.
These free-to-access online resources have been created by multi-disciplinary healthcare professionals, patients and carers from across Scotland. Our latest module, HEARTe15, focuses on women’s heart health and is designed for both health professionals and the general public. It includes interactive case studies on cardiovascular risk, menopause and more.
The professional resources have optional assessments which, if successfully completed, provide certificatory documentation of learning that can be used as evidence of continuous professional development.
Many of Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland’s eLearning resources have been commissioned by the Scottish Government.
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We have a wide range of health information covering chest, heart and stroke conditions, and Long Covid. As well as more general resources to help people live life to the full. A selection of our health information is available in community languages. Our resources are peer-reviewed and PIF TICK-accredited so you know ours is information you can trust. You can access all of our resources via our Resources Hub and order print copies through our Shop.
To find out more about Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland’s Education programme, or to get involved in National or Local Education sessions, please get in touch. Email – [email protected]
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