Virtual Learning Environment
Welcome to NHS Health Scotland's Virtual Learning Environment
This space hosts a wide range of eLearning modules, event information, resources and forums. Best of all, most of our training is free. Join our VLEWe’re here to provide workers and volunteers in the NHS, wider public sector, private and third sectors across Scotland with the knowledge and skills to help tackle a range of health inequalities issues.
Whether you’d like to find the right approach to mitigating health inequalities in areas such as alcohol and drugs, healthy weight or suicide prevention – or if you want to understand more about preventing health inequalities – these learning opportunities will give you the confidence to take the right action within your own area of work.
Our resources are developed with experts from across Scotland’s learning, healthcare and third sectors
Many of our learning resources can be used flexibly to fit around you and your working day.
Develop your skills, enhance your practice and improve the health of others
Our Learning Brochure features a wide range of learning modules and e-learning courses on offer.
At Healthy Working Lives our principle focus is to work with employers to enable them to understand, protect and improve the health of their employees. We do this by providing free support and advice to businesses and organisations across Scotland through our website, Adviceline and a network of advisers. You can call the Healthy Working Lives Adviceline for free on 0800 019 2211
New courses
Very brief advice on smoking
NHS Health Scotland is pleased to announce the launch of the Very Brief Advice on smoking eLearning module. The module can empower everyone to have a very brief conversation about stopping smoking. It will take approximately 30 minutes to complete, and the advice can be delivered in less than 30 seconds! Learning outcomes – you will be able to: • Explain what very brief advice on smoking is, the purpose and its benefits • Introduce very brief advice into your interactions with people who smoke • Reflect on your own role and be aware of the support and services available to help people to stop smoking
Health literacy
The aim of the module is encouraging individuals and organisations to highlight the relationship between health literacy and health inequalities and encourage actions that can be taken to help improve health literacy and reduce health inequalities. NHS Health Scotland’s Workforce Development Team worked in partnership with NHS Ayrshire & Arran, NHS Education Scotland and the Scottish Government to develop and produce an e-learning module which helps to deliver the national health literacy plan.