NHS Training App

In detail...

The Royal College of Surgeons wanted to centralise their national interviewing process to be run at a single location. In order to achieve this, they needed all of the interviewers to be able to mark candidates consistently. The solution that Aab Web provided was a web application which not only trained interviewers on how to judge candidates, but also allowed the administrators to observe each candidates progress and make a judgement on whether they were ready to be included in the national process.

Each course consisted of a number of steps which had to be completed sequentially and could either be simple text/image based content explaining the process or a video of a candidate interview and marking form which once submitted provided the user with feedback as to whether their marking was at a sufficient level and if not, indicating where they might be able to improve their judgement. All the submissions were then analysed as a whole and from an individual users perspective to see where work needed to be done to bring enough interviewers up to the required level.

The final application was built using the Sapphire PHP framework. We made it possible for administrators to quickly create courses with multiple steps as well as dynamically building the required forms for each, giving complete flexibility and preventing and need for duplicated content entry. Using Sapphire's form classes we were able to ensure all data was recorded and associated with the relevant users so that the submissions table could be filtered to view specific data.

Ultimately the site was a huge success, allowing the RCS to achieve their goals and set the standard for future national initiatives.

What the client thought

" Very clear and easy to navigate and I think it will really help to achieve our objectives. Overall I think this has come together even better than we hoped "

Vince Goddard, Head of IT