Are you a potential supporter?
Virtual Clinics is our brand new, stimulating e-learning module for primary care clinicians providing educational, expert-led, evidence-based guidance and advice to increase your knowledge and confidence to deliver the best patient care and improve patient outcomes.
Follow a series of virtual patients presenting with a range of health conditions such as T2DM, CVD, HF, CRM, CKD and obesity, who will visit (and revisit) the clinic in real-time. These case study-based interactive journeys illustrate true-to-life patient experiences from diagnosis to treatment and management, whilst demonstrating the ever-evolving conditions and associated risks and complications that can arise.
Virtual Clinics will improve knowledge and understanding of common conditions by following practical, expert-led case studies.
How support works
We rely on the generosity of our industry partners to provide funding support through educational grants and sponsorship to make our independent Virtual Clinics programmes freely available to healthcare professional members.
This unique initiative offers multiple support opportunities, including:
- Single patient – support a single patient’s health journey with a minimum of 4 Virtual Clinic visit consultations and assessments over 12 months
- Multi-patient – support a group of patients’ health journeys with multiple visit consultations and assessments for a pre-defined period
- Rolling annual sponsorship of a patient with multiple visit consultations and assessments, including yearly updates reflecting the latest data and guidance
Plus additional add-in options, including:
- Expert audio bytes, videos and commentaries developed and recorded by key opinion leaders in the field
- Live interactive webinars and question time sessions, allowing users to interact directly with the experts
- Additional programme resources – factsheets, downloadable educational materials, leaflets, checklists and more…
- Additional patient visit consultations and assessments during the support period
- Updates reflecting the latest data and guidance releases
What do supporters gain?
The benefits of supporting Virtual Clinics are:
- Acknowledgement of support on the website, all promotional email alerts, social media campaigns, plus all accompanying educational materials
- Increased brand recognition and product awareness through continuing return visits to the Virtual Clinics programme
- Aiding knowledge improvement, standardised treatment pathways and delivery of optimal care
- Gain detailed insights into developing perceptions, awareness and motivation for change with comprehensive summaries of user reflection and feedback questionnaires
- Tailored ‘return on investment’ reports
To learn more and to discuss how these patient programmes could support your marketing/educational strategies, please contact:
Jane Boyle, Issues & Answers Programme Director
Email: jboyle@sherbornegibbs.co.uk
Tel: 01789 766098
What makes Virtual Clinics different from other e‑learning modules?
- Virtual patients – Meet each patient and get to know their characters
- Patient health journeys, with multiple visits – Each patient visits the clinic at least 4 times over their journey, for follow-up appointments and subsequent reviews, demonstrating how their condition evolves during this period
- Medical notes – You receive access to the patient’s medical history and test results, along with expert commentary about the patient and their condition
- Interactive case assessments – Each visit comprises of a multiple-choice CPD question assessment where you, in consultation with the patient, help to decide how the patient should next be treated and managed
- Expert support – To guide you through, our experts will provide you with accessible links to the relevant evidence and guidance along the way, offering their expert advice and feedback at each stage
- Tailored correspondence – No matter when you sign up to see your patient, you will receive a full patient journey over the designated time period, with individually tailored e-alerts to notify you when your patient has returned for their next visit
- Certification – Following successful completion of each patient visit and assessment, you will gain CPD certificates and reflection forms which are automatically saved to your MyCPD area of the Issues & Answers website
Meet the latest case in Virtual Clinics
Diana with Diabetes
Diana is 55 years old, has recently moved to the area and registered with your practice. She attends for her new patient medical with the Health Care Assistant who notes that she has type 2 diabetes and a 30-minute appointment is made with you for a diabetes review. Diana has quite a good understanding of diabetes – her mother had the condition and she also attended a structured education programme shortly after being diagnosed.
