Most healthcare learning is a patchwork. We build it into a framework.
Generic bought-in modules, slide decks and mandatory training people click through. It doesn't sound like your organisation and it goes out of date quickly. It also sits apart from how people progress. We build a learning academy that helps you recruit, train, keep and grow talent, in your voice and your way of working.
Your learning and development team stays in charge. Our pathways add to the structure you already have. Induction and mandatory training get faster and more responsive, and you get impact you can measure and report.
Candidates can't see what working with you is really like, or how they'd grow.
Preview modules and a visible development pathway become part of your offer to candidates and placement students.
Learning people choose to watch.
We've built whole modules across healthcare: condition-specific, wellbeing, patient care, practical and medical. Pick an example to see the learning design behind it.
Bleak Practice
An original drama series for a medical and dental defence organisation, based on real clinical scenarios. Doctors, dentists and their teams watch a case unfold, then work through what went wrong and how to handle it.
The story comes first and the learning follows. Drama creates the stakes and the debrief turns them into practice. It is MDDUS's most engaged-with training by far, and members have recorded measurable improvements in clinical outcomes.
Learning science, with authoritative voices. Made accessible to everyone.
We design every module around how people learn and remember. Your trusted professionals do the explaining, and we make it clear and complete enough for a new starter and credible enough for a consultant.
Built on learning science
Short chunks, spaced repetition, retrieval practice and worked clinical cases. Designed for retention, not just completion.
Authoritative narratives
Clinicians, specialists and academics explain in plain language, through real stories and cases that stick.
Your voice, your ways of working
Your protocols, your people, your culture. It feels like it came from inside the organisation because it did.
Kept relevant
Modular by design. When guidance changes, you update one piece, not the whole programme.
Your content. Our expertise.
Studio or field. Without taking over anyone's diary.
Our capture process is built around busy clinicians and academics. We handle the scripting, instructional design and content management, so experts give us their knowledge, not their week.
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Script & design
We shape the learning outcomes and script with your experts.
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Capture
In our studio or in the field, on a schedule that suits clinics and lectures.
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Build
Modules, assessments and case studies, built to learning-science principles.
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Manage & grow
We keep content current, and it scales: new modules slot in with ease.
Modules we've built
Heart Failure
Glasgow Caledonian UniversityChild Protection Induction & Mandatory Training
NHS ScotlandPaediatric Palliative Care
CHASCare Home Nursing Care
Care sectorAsbestosis Symptom Management
Clinical moduleDementia Care
Clinical moduleAlzheimer's Carers' Module
Carers & familiesGP Communications
Primary careComplete Training Academy
MDDUSIndigenous Health CPD
Arizona State UniversityPalliative Care Academy
HospiceNot just the learning. The academy it lives in.
When there isn't a system that fits, we design and build it. That covers sign-up, pathways, tracking and reporting, all branded and built around your learners.
Learning Sparks
A learning platform we designed and built from start to finish. It's backed by the studio model that has produced more than 2,000 learning outputs with Arizona State University.
- Branded sign-up and secure learner access
- A library of expert-led learning, organised by pathway
- Progress tracking and reporting built in
- Designed to scale from one cohort to thousands
Palliative Care Academy
The hospice module is the first part of a comprehensive palliative care academy for health and social care professionals around the world. It's built to scale, and new modules can be added with ease.
- A global audience of health and social care professionals
- Specialist knowledge from the people who do this work every day
- Self-paced modules with progress tracked
- A foundation module, with the wider academy built around it
Cronkite Pro
The e-learning platform for Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. It brings learning modules together so learners can make the most of asynchronous study.
- Hundreds of hours of degree and postgraduate-level content
- Investigative journalism, sports presentation, media training and editorial management
- Pathways that lead to professional qualifications
- Instructional design that carries straight across to healthcare
Already have an LMS? The same modules can be built to plug straight into it. Either way, you own the content.
Plugged into how your organisation develops people. Not bolted on beside it.
Into your existing LMS
SCORM and xAPI-ready modules that drop into the platform you already run, with completion and assessment data in your current reporting.
A bespoke academy, built for you
No LMS, or one that's fighting you? We build the platform: the learning, the monitoring, and the links to the rest of your people systems.
Monitoring & reporting
Completion, compliance and engagement by team, site or role.
CPD & professional development
Learning logged as evidence for CPD and revalidation.
Progression & competency
Pathways mapped to bands, roles and competency frameworks.
Appraisals
Development conversations backed by real learning records.
HR systems If required
Starters, movers and leavers kept in sync automatically.
Quicker induction and mandatory training. Impact you can show your board.
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Induction before day one
New starters arrive having already covered the essentials, on any device.
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Mandatory training that responds
When guidance or policy changes, update a module in days, not a programme in months.
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Less time away from patients
Short modules fit around shifts instead of pulling teams off the floor.
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Good governance, built in
Clear records for audits, inspections and board reporting, without chasing spreadsheets.
We help you set the baseline before we start, so you can show the change.
Improvement in new-hire retention at organisations with strong onboarding.1
LEO Pharma staff whose usage data revealed training hot spots and the next content to make.
Of employees would stay longer at a company that invested in their learning.2
Learning outputs produced through our Learning Sparks studio model.
Start with one pathway. Grow it into a full academy.
One pathway
Induction or a mandatory training set, rebuilt in your voice and delivered through your LMS.
A curriculum
Role-based pathways across clinical, wellbeing and patient care, linked to CPD and appraisal.
Your own academy
A bespoke platform with monitoring, progression and HR integration, built, delivered and kept current.
Made in Scotland. Delivered wherever your people are.
Your workforce isn't all in one place, and neither are we. We run programmes for organisations with many sites across many countries, to the same standard everywhere.
Scotland HQ
Production, instructional design and programme management from our base in Scotland.
Washington, DC office
Our own capability on the ground, delivering for teams across the US and the Americas.
Partner services
Trusted production partners extend our reach across Europe and Asia-Pacific.
What should every new starter learn from your best people?
Tell us where learning gets stuck: induction, mandatory training, a specialist skill or a pathway that doesn't exist yet. We'll show you how to build it, deliver it and measure the difference.
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