Hi, welcome to the 15-year journey of the Script e-learning program and the team's commitment to improve medicine safety. It all began in 2010 when Health Education West Midlands commissioned an online e-learning program to improve prescribing competency of foundation doctors in the region. We launched Script on the 14th of October 2010, sending six modules live for foundation traininee doctors in the West Midlands.
Feedback from our users reminded us to comply with NHS infection control policies and so began the process of continual program development. By 2011, there were 38 modules live on the script website and 266 foundation trainee doctors had completed nearly 7,000 modules wherever and whenever they wanted. Its success led to script modules being integrated into the foundation training in the West Midlands so that every trainee got the same underpinning knowledge about prescribing. By the following year, with all West Midlands trainees registered, more than 19,000 modules had been completed. Script grew rapidly.
Many trainees had dedicated lots of time to making prescribing safer. With prescribing knowledge being improved in the West Midlands, we started to think about the next steps. If we could make prescribing safer in the West Midlands, we should be helping others in the NHS to improve. We needed to go national and supportother health care professionals who were involved in prescribing and administering medicines. We began developing new portfolios. The first was dental script launched in 2014 and subsequently integrated into dental foundation training.
Some medical schools started to use our original foundation doctor portfolio, script medicine and surgery script to support students and in 2015 it became available to all foundation trainee doctors in England. We worked with the Reed charityto provide education for UK- based refugee and asylum seeking healthcare professionals. And by now more medical schools were accessing our modules.
In 2016, we introduced the pediatric script and nursing script. And as more medical schools adopted medicine and surgery script, our primary care and ambulance service portfolios were launched. In 2019, a national training about prescribing cannabis-based medicinal products was needed and we quickly obliged. Then as the covid19 pandemic hit, script was made freely available to support anyone working in the NHS and we created a module on CO 19. With technology changing at an accelerated pace, in 2022, all modules were converted into a new template design that enhanced functionality and improved accessibility. In 2023, the initial phase of our global library was launched, allowing institutions and organizations to create a bespoke selection of modules for their use. By February 2024, we celebrated the milestone of having 1 million script module completions. And in September of that year, we launched our prescriber ready portfolio, providing underpinning pharmarmacology learning for those who will become prescribers as we ensure all our content is relevant and up-to-date and necessary.
In 2025, we retired the COVID 19 module into our historical archive with the development of a new template underway to ensure the modules meet double A level for accessibility requirements and celebrating our first 15 years of script e-learning. The journey doesn't stop here. Our now substantially bigger script team is looking forward to our next 15 years of development in the provision of training to support prescribing and improve patient safety. All of this has and will continue to be a collaborative effort and we want to thank everybody who'scontributed along the way, not least our learners who continue to guide Script's development. We look forward to continuing our work contributing to medicine safety.
