Case Study

Christine Melia

• Over 8000 employees• The centre has over 150

candidates registered for various awards at any one time.

• Satellite Centres• Candidates are not all based on

one site

Central Manchester University Hospitals

Foundation Trust

Team Structure

Marion Gallagher OD Manager

Lyndon Wade Head of OD&T

Christine Melia NVQ Centre Manager

Diane Hall

NVQ Facilitators

Janet Nicholson Lynn Perrin

NVQ Assessors

Susan Heaton Kizzy Roberts

Matthew AshNVQ Administrator

• Access

• Excel

• SDMS

• CATS (Gizware)

• Gismo

What software

We looked at • what was available• Its strengths• Its weaknesses• Was it fit for purpose• Who would need access to it• Who would be responsible for

entering information• IT experience• Protection of data

NVQ Centre Database

Action Planning needed

• Getting Started

• Access Course

• Problems encountered

• Barriers

• With access as long as you have the information in any related table you can run a query or report from it.

• You can format and personalise these as required

Reports & queries

Sampling query

• Stored electronically

• All information scanned into these files regularly.

Candidate Files

• Database

• What have been the advantages of developing our own system?

• What are the disadvantages?

• What if something changes?

What next

Questions

christine.melia@cmft.nhs.uk

Contact Details