Clinical skills equipment prepared for vascular access learning and assessment.

From programme completion to clinical competency: the HALO pathway

Completing a learning programme is an important achievement. It is not automatically the same as being authorised as clinically competent in a workplace.

Clinical competency depends on more than knowledge or a single simulated assessment.

Read more

Gloved hands practising peripheral intravenous cannulation on a training vein set.

Difficult IV Access, VAD Selection and Escalation: More Than a Technique Question

Every service that provides peripheral venous access meets difficult moments: veins that cannot be found, a cannula that will not go in, or a patient who has been through it all before. What happens next is shaped not only by an individual practitioner's skill, but by the system around them.

Read more