Enhance in Wessex
Enhance is a new education programme and is part of a national project to prepare the medical workforce for an increasingly complex and diverse patient population. It has been adapted for the foundation programme to train generalist clinicians who are prepared for the evolving complex needs of our population. The enhance programme is designed to run alongside and support achieving the foundation programme capabilities.
Enhance is split into two separate offers – enable and explore.
Enhance Enable
Enhance Enable is a self-directed programme consisting of six modules to be completed across the 2-year foundation programme (three to be done in F1 and three in F2). Each module has a workbook to complete during self-development time (SDT) and gives suggested evidence on how you can demonstrate the learning outcomes of the module. These outcomes can be supported with clinical, professional, or reflective work. Below is an overview of the modules and the 4 cross-cutting themes. You can right click and choose ‘open image in new tab’ to view this at a larger scale:
Enhance Enable will be supervised by the local Foundation Programme director and they can advise on how to sign up and the requirements for sign-off of each module. The workbooks can be found on NHS Learning Hub under Enhance for Foundation programme.
Foundation doctors can create their own account on the NHS Learning hub by using the GMC number to sign up.
Access to the national enhance learning hub can be found here.
We have also developed regional resources to explain what is available here in Wessex, more about the programme and extra resources for the modules.
Access to the Wessex enhance learning hub can be found here.
A guide for foundation doctors to the Enhance Enable offer can be found here.
Enhance Explore
Enhance explore is a further educational offer in which doctors undertake specialised foundation programmes. These programmes give protected time to further explore the enhance learning. From August 2025 start, these explore placements will be available to apply for via the foundation priority programmes recruitment.
Each explore programme is slightly different depending on role and locality, but will involve a specialised foundation placement that supports development as a generalist and supports an enhance leadership project. This placement may be stretched over the two years of foundation or be focussed in one of the four-month attachments.
These placements will also be supported by regional enhance study days. Each study day will focus on one of the 6 enhance domains. The dates for 2024/2025 explore year one study days are:
Wednesday 25th September 2024
Wednesday 29th January 2025
Wednesday 28th May 2025
These will be hosted at Explorer House, Southampton.
If you wish to learn more about our enhance explore programmes in Wessex then please contact our regional team on the email address below.
Contacts
Our regional team is also here to support those currently undertaking Enhance:
Dr Craig Prescott – Training Programme Director for Enhance
Dr Daniel Wagstaff – Enhance Educational Fellow
Programme Team – england.enhance.wx@nhs.net