Enhancing education, clinical practice and staff wellbeing. A national vision for the role of simulation and immersive learning technologies in health and care (November 2020)

Summary

This document outlines how Health Education England (HEE) hopes to expand the role of simulation and immersive learning technologies in the education and training of the NHS workforce. Simulation is defined as ‘a technique to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences, often immersive in nature, that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully safe, instructive and interactive fashion’. This document considers how existing techniques and technologies can benefit wider policy and strategy goals in health and care, outlining HEE's intention to:

1. promote and strengthen the dialogue between different system and stakeholder organisations, networks, and communities to enable and evaluate opportunities for sharing intelligence and innovation
2. provide a platform for collaboration on common themes of work
3. generate evidence of impact that will help support the transformation in health and care that is required for the future needs of patients and society.