MS Academy
UCLH Hospital, London

The MS academy was initially set up in 2016, and since that time has provided education to healthcare practitioners (HCPs) involved in the care of people with MS via a unique small group residential training programme. Over 31 residential academies and roadshows have been held and more than 770 UK HCPs have been trained in these sessions.

The MS academy was initially set up in 2016, and since that time has provided education to healthcare practitioners (HCPs) involved in the care of people with MS via a unique small group residential training programme. Over 31 residential academies and roadshows have been held and more than 770 UK HCPs have been trained in these sessions.

At the time of the COVID pandemic, the MS academy rapidly transitioned to providing online education via webinars, online learning programmes, and webpages – all available without barriers and free of charge to the MS community. This provided an invaluable education and peer support service to the MS community at a very difficult time in our professional lives and helped to shape the UK MS community response to COVID.

Since that time, the MS academy has been able to build upon this and continue to provide a digital learning platform that runs concurrently with face-to-face sessions. This allows people who were previously not able to attend a face-to-face training programme, because of caring responsibilities or geography, the benefit of the very best in MS education, and the support of feeling encouraged within a learning community.

An excellent, supportive, learning community, that all healthcare practitioners through the UK can access at any time, wherever in the country they live, and whenever they have time, that allows knowledge and best practice to spread seamlessly across the community.

What could be more worthy of a QuDoS award for innovation in digital services?

To read the Digital Innovation case study including the solutions, results, and more. Click here and download the PDF or listen to pharmaphorum’s Deep Dive editor Eloise McLennan talking with Sarah Gillett and Jamie McGregor here.

Thank you to this year’s QuDoS in MS programme sponsors, Novartis and Roche.