News

Recent Site Downtime 23/04/2019

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the PARE website has been temporarily unavailable.


Normal service has now resumed, and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.


Firewall Update 07/01/2019

On 14th January 2019, UKFAST who maintain the server for PARE will be updating the security firewall.  


This means that PARE may experience a few moments of poor connectivity sometime between 2200 hours and 0100 hours on the 15th January whilst the server is moved from primary to secondary provision and back. 

Despite this only lasting a few moments, we have scheduled this essential work during our quietest period.  If you are however, using PARE over that time, may we apologise for any potential inconvenience.   


8th January 2019 - PARE Demo website 07/01/2019

In order to provide a working Demo site, for PARE, the live website will need to be  momentarily shut down to allow for the partitioning of the server.


This is scheduled for 6.00pm on Tuesday 8th January.  It should literally only take a couple of minutes whilst the server is rebooted.

We apologise for the short notice but, due to the timing, we hope that this will not inconvenience too many of you. 


Timesheet - weeks to be signed off 15/11/2018

Students need to be aware that the universities have requested a modification be made to the timesheets to encourage all students to get their individual  weeks signed off in a timely manner by their mentors, within the actual period of the placement. 


In order to get the daily  hours to  accrue into :-
  • the Total hours for each week  [1] and 
  • the Overall Hours [2] in the Declaration section at the bottom of the form 
you will need to ensure that each week is signed off [3].  Once  that week is signed then those hours  worked will be included into the automatic totals.  Please check the example below to see the effect that an unsigned week has on the overall totals.

This will  help to eliminate the need to chase up signatures months after a placement has ended and will help to keep your records up-to-date.

Scheduled Maintenance Downtime 02/11/2018

On Tuesday 6th November the PARE service will be undergoing essential maintainence from 08:00 to 10:00 AM and may experience intermittent downtime during this period

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
The OnlinePARE Team


Scheduled Maintenance Downtime 17/10/2018

Please be aware that the PARE website will be offline for essential maintenance, on the morning of Friday 19th October from 7.00am to 10.00am.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Regards,
The OnlinePARE Team


Scheduled Maintenance downtime (#2) 29/09/2018

Please be aware that the aforementioned upgrade is now likely to take place the following weekend due to server migration issues encountered. In light of this there was no downtime on Saturday 29th September as planned. Further details will follow.


Scheduled Maintenance downtime 27/09/2018

Please be aware that the PARE website will be migrated to a larger secure server on Saturday 29th September at 11.00am.

The team hope to minimise the disruption to our Users and aim to have normal service restored within 90 minutes.

We would like to apologise for any inconvenience.


Website downtime 04/09/2018

The PARE team wish to apologise for any inconvenience caused due lapse in service earlier this morning due to a switch in the security certificate for the site.


If you are aware that any colleagues are still having difficulty accessing PARE can you please forward them the following link which gives instructions on clearing their browser SSL cache which should help to resolve their issue:-

https://www.a2hosting.co.uk/kb/getting-started-guide/internet-and-networking/clearing-a-web-browsers-ssl-state

They will just need to follow the specific instructions for the type Browser that they are currently using.

Kind regards 

The PARE team



PARE APP USERS - move to new premises 03/08/2018

The PARE team are currently moving to new premises in Birkenhead from Monday 6th August.

 During the transition the PARE team aim to minimise the disruption to our users but advise that  there will be a skeleton service from 3pm on Friday 3rd August through to Tuesday 7th August.

 Should you have a query for the PARE team during this period then your best course of action will be to send your details to info@onlinepare.net

The PARE team


Scheduled Maintenance downtime 24/07/2018

Dear PARE User
 

Please be aware that the PARE website will be temporarily unavailable for 15 minutes  on  the morning of Thursday 26th July 2018 from 8.30am to 8.45am.

 

The PARE team apologies for any inconvenience caused by the need to upgrade the website  to a larger Server.

Kind Regards

The PARE Team


Training for Team Managers on PARE 10/07/2018

The next PARE training session, for Team Managers  is scheduled forMonday 23rd July from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Lancaster Campus of  in the University of Cumbria.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here


Team Managers - PARE training 05/06/2018

The next PARE training session, for Team Managers  is scheduled for Thursday 28th June from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here


Team Manager training in use of PARE website 08/05/2018

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Wednesday 30th May from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

· local NHS Trusts

· Nursing Homes

· and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here


Team Manager - PARE training 09/04/2018

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Tuesday 24th April   from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training is aimed at new PARE Team Managers in:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here


PARE Banner 06/04/2018

 Please be advised that the current banner, which is currently displaying on all PEFs and Mentors Dashboards, only applies in the Cheshire /Merseyside region.  

Calling all NMC Nurse Mentors. Please ensure you have updated your last annual and triennial review dates in your profile (click on your name in top right of your dashboard to access). Failure to do so will mean an inability to see your student documentation from the 1st May 2018. If unsure contact info@onlinepare.net Thank you

If you work outside of this region then please ignore this message.  We are working to have this altered as soon as possible so that it will be seen by staff in this region only.


PARE Team Manager Training 08/03/2018

The next PARE Team Manager training is on:-

Monday 26th March 

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in 

University of Cumbria’s 

Lancaster campus, The Keep, room K2

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here



PARE Team Manager training 01/02/2018

The next PARE training session is scheduled for 

Wednesday 28th February   

 2.00pm - 4.30pm 

and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here


Assignment of student assessment document to all Hub and Elective/Spoke placements - Merseyside /Cheshire 19/01/2018

Up to now, a student assessment record could only be assigned to a Hub placement regardless of whether the student was scheduled to make one or more shorter visits as Electives or Spokes in that time period. As a result the Elective/ Spoke placement mentors could then only access the document and timesheet whilst the student was logged into their account.

Following some changes by the web developers, it will be possible for all aspects of a student record to be directly linked to each part of the placement, for all future uploads of student placement data. The benefits of this will be:-

  • The student document will be viewable by every placement that the student is scheduled to visit during that placement period. Only the appropriate pages will be available to each of the placements i.e.  If a student is attending a Elective/Spoke the mentor will only be able to add content in the Spoke pages and any other relevant pages to that Elective/Spoke placement whilst the Hub mentor will have access to all the Hub pages.
  • Students attending an Elective /Spoke placement can now have mentors assigned to them, thus removing the need for all content to be added through the student's PARE login.

To ensure this works seamlessly each university Placement /Practice Offices will need to ensure that when loading their .CSV files it:

  • lists all the Hubs and Electives for each student in that cohort;
  • records the exact start and end date of the Hub (no need for umbrella dates);
  • records the exact start and end dates for each of the Elective/Spokes;
  • and that the PARE team are then advised of the correct document to be switched on for that cohort. (HEIs using InPlace will not need to use the CSV import function)

The should help to improve the experience for the Spoke/Elective mentor and will help PARE team managers to identify where mentors still need PARE accounts to be created to them.


PARE Team Manager training 14/12/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Tuesday 23rd January   from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.






Access to Demonstration documents 21/11/2017

To protect the intellectual property of all the separate university documents it has been decided to password protect the access to them.


For training purposes you can now find the link to these Demos from the bottom left corner of your PARE Dashboard in the box titled Document Demo Links.  

Any outside interest will need to contact the PARE Helpdesk for temporary access.  This will enable the team to monitor and track such usage.


December - Team Manager training 14/11/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Thursday 7th December  from 2.00pm - 4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

To join us and reserve one of the 20 places available then please click on the link below and leave your details.



 


PARE - Team Manager training 04/10/2017

The next PARE training session is scheduled for Wednesday 25th October  from 2.00 -4.30pm and will be held in Warrington in the  University of Chester’s Tucker Building, Room 202.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhanced Training Practices (ETPs)

This will enable new Team Managers to better understand the PARE system and enable them to cascade this information among their own teams of mentor/Educators.

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.

To Register Please Click Here

 


Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - Inter Professional Learning Event for students 05/09/2017

Oral Care – The Impact on Health and Wellbeing

This session is an opportunity to meet other students and gain further insight into effective Oral Care and the Impact of poor oral care on  Health and Wellbeing… 
     
This is a chance for students to exchange views and perceptions. 

When will the event take place? 
      • 11th September 2017 13:30 till 15:30

Where will the event take place? 
     Learning & Organisational Development Dept. 
     Horton House, Southlink Business Park, Hamilton street        Oldham.OL4 1DE 

Facilitated by Amanda McLaughlin who is the Senior Training Manager Uk, RIS Products Limited 

Please email caseydunne@nhs.net to book your place 


PARE Traning 04/09/2017

The Pare team are organising a series of monthly training sessions. 

The first session is scheduled for Tuesday 26th September  from 2.00 -4.00pm and will be held in the University of Chester’s Clatterbridge site, computer suite.

The training will primarily benefit new PARE Team Managers from:-

·         local  NHS Trusts

·         Nursing Homes

·         and Enhance Training Practices (ETPs).

Further dates will be advertised each month and will be run from a variety of locations around the region.

If you would like to book one of the 20 places then please click on the link below and leave your details.  

Book your place here


Supporting Learners in Clinical Practice Study Day 23/08/2017

Edge Hill University, 6th September.

Teaching, learning and assessing in practice is a vital element & process in the experience of many students. Mentorship is integral to that experience throughout graduate, postgraduate, professional & non-professional programmes. A new set of standards relating to mentors will be reviewed.

Programme

·         9.00 – Registration

·         9.30 – Keynote speaker (TBC)

·         10.00 – Overview of the Standards

·         10.30 – Refreshments

·         10.45 – Workshop (4 groups) – Overview of the new Standards

·         12.00 – Lunch

·         1.00 – Awards** (see Website for nomination link)

·         1.30 – Workshop

·         2.15 – Refreshments

·         2.30 – Workshop

·         3.15 – Overview of the Standards Feedback

**       Innovation for Practice Learning, Placement Experience of the Year, Outstanding Contribution to Practice


Edge Hill University 20/06/2017

Nursing students documents have now gone live


Bolton University 20/06/2017

The University of Bolton are planning a Mentor conference for up to 200 delegates on 7th July. There will be workshop sessions repeated 3 times during the day this will include a workshop on the on line PARE. 


All Learners Celebration Event 30/05/2017

Calling ALL Health & Social Care Learners!

Are you a current learner on a Health and Social care Programme?
Would you like to contribute to future multi professional working and inter professional learning?
Would you like to participate in a Question & Answer Learner panel?
Do you want to share your experience with other learners?

Come and Join us!

Be a part of YOUR event!

Lunch & refreshments provided

Contact Andy Morris Workbased Education Facilitator

Email; andy.morris2@nhs.net

Date: 16th June 2017

09.00 – 16.00

Venue: Liverpool John Moore’s University,
School of Health, Main Lecture Theatre,
Tithebarn Building,
81 Tithebarn Street,
L2 2ER


Review of PARE 02/02/2017

The University of Chester are hosting two meetings to review the initial phased introduction of the PARE system, from both the NHS and the Academic perspective.
All PEFs and Team managers in the North West are cordially invited to attend.

The dates are :-

  • Wednesday 15th February, Riverside Campus, CRV 150, 10.00am.
  • Monday 24th April, Warrington Campus, room TBC, 2.00pm

The PARE team will be in attendance to address any PARE queries or issues.

To register your interest, and request a parking space, please contact Denise Dixon at d.dixon@chester.ac.uk.
We look forward to meeting up with you at one of these meetings.


Merge of CWP and NHS Western Cheshire Placements 31/01/2017

The placements that were traditionally associated with the old NHS Western Cheshire Trust  have now finally been merged with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership.  All managers who previously had dual access to the two Trusts should now be able to access all placements from their PARE account without having to toggle between the two areas.


New Implementation Lead 22/11/2016

Paul Barber has now been appointed to the role of OnlinePARE Implementation Lead. Paul has over 40 years experience working as a nurse in the North West and as a senior lecturer at the University of Chester. Paul will be working two days per week for the OnlinePARE project. Paul's role will involve linking closely with Trusts/PVIs and universities to ensure a smooth roll-out of the online assessment process throughout the North West.
From early 2017, Paul will be holding regional training sessions for Trust staff and academics.

You can contact Paul by email: paul@onlinepare.net


Android App Launch 07/11/2016

We are pleased to announce the launch of the OnlinePARE App. The App is developed specifically for students who attend placement areas with limited access to WIFI and 3G/4G signal. The App will work without an active internet connection, while still offering the same functionality as the web version. Any document updates made by a student whilst offline will sync automatically once the student's device is connected the internet. The Android App can be found on the Google Play store. We have plans to develop an iOS version for iPhone & iPad in 2017.

We are in the process of a phased launch of the App. Currently, first year nursing students at Manchester Metropolitan University are using the app, with other universities and courses to follow in early 2017.


Save time importing student placement data 04/10/2016

We have released a new feature aimed at saving time for university placement offices. Importing CSV files can be time consuming and requires placements name to match ours. Now there is another option, by using our placement ID in place of the trust and placement it will automatically populate those fields.
You can view our placement IDs in the placement manager. For more information about this new feature please email us: info@onlinepare.net


Manage Placements (PEFs) 19/07/2016

We have added a new section under the User tab to enable PEFs to manage their placement areas more efficiently.

The Manage Placements section has these useful features
  • Bulk import mentors to a placement area
  • Edit or remove mentors from the placement
  • View students that are assigned to a placement area
  • Quick link to assign mentors screen


Help Guides 06/06/2016

We have extended the number of help guides and videos available to students, trust/PVI staff and universities. We have also made these resources easier to find.

Some of these improvements include:

  • Relevant help guides will appear in the left navigation pane of any page with an associated help guide.
  • Dashboard widget for general help files.
  • Created a YouTube channel to host all video guides. View YouTube channel here
  • Alternatively, videos can be downloaded, this is aimed at users who cannot access YouTube or need offline access to these resources.

Quarterly Report 28/01/2016

HEI staff and PEFs now have the ability to print a quarterly report for all placements in their trust/organisation based upon all students that attended a placement their during the 3 months of that quarter.


It details completion statistics, profession overviews and individual placement ratings against the previous quarter


Download Any Page In Your PAR 19/10/2015

You can now download any page in your online practice document. 

You can use this feature to keep for your own records or if you need to get a mentor to complete your page manually whilst out on a spoke or visit, it can be uploaded back to the system later.


Download Reports 09/10/2015

HEI and Trust staff can now download a statistical report to PDF. 

The PDF contains a table representation of the results as well as graphical chart which can be used in meetings to monitor and improve the student experience for the future.


Download Your Full PAR 10/08/2015

On your dashboard, you can now download your full practice document as a whole. 

This option becomes available to you when your complete your document for the entire year.
Once everything has been signed off you can then download this to keep for your own records or to hand in to your practice office as portfolio evidence.


Certificate Of Placement 05/08/2015

Students are now able to download a certificate of placement as a PDF file which highlights that they have completed an evaluation of their practice learning experience whilst on their hub placement.


They can keep this in their portfolio of work as proof of all the trust and placement areas they have attended whilst at university


PAR Pilot 15/07/2015

The Online Practice Assessment Record for Cheshire and Merseyside Student Nurses has now reached the Alpha stage of development, and will be functionality tested by a small group of students and mentors from Chester University and Edge Hill University before being formally piloted in some areas from September 2015.

The PARE team are also developing multi-professional versions of online practice assessment documentation for professions such as Physiotherapy, Midwifery and Social Work, used in a number of Universities such as UCLan, Salford, and Manchester. The aim is to have the first of these documents online by November 2015, with a rolling programme of development for other groups and universities thereafter.

If you require any further information on the above developments, please contact m.brownsell@chester.ac.uk or the PARE team.


Raising Concerns In Practice 04/06/2015

It is sometimes hard to know what to do when students feel something isn't quite right on placement so we have now put together a detailed guide for learners to help students follow a procedure set out by Heath Education North West.


This can be found on your dashboard on the left in red.


Evaluation 18/02/2015

The Evaluation element of the PARE Tool has reached an exciting stage with three North West HEIs implementing the tool. Currently, University of Chester, Edge Hill and Salford University are introducing the tool to their nursing students.

From March 2015 two more North West organisations, namely University of Cumbria and Manchester Metropolitan will each be bringing up to two further cohorts of their nursing students online.

Liverpool John Moores University will be bringing their Nursing students online in May 2015.


Allied Health Professions 18/02/2015

We are delighted that two North West HEIs have introduced the Evaluation tool to the following AHP departments:
University of Salford: Introduced a cohort of Physiotherapy students to the tool in January 2015. Edge Hill University: A cohort of Operating Department Practitioner students are intending to utilise the online evaluation tool during their May 2015 placement.


Training Guides 18/02/2015

The PARE team are pleased to offer the following link which provides all academic and Trust staff with access to online training tutorials which cover all functionality within the Evaluation aspect of the tool. We ask that all PEFs and academic leads cascade this link to the staff involved in monitoring student placements to further their awareness and understanding of how to use the online tool.

Link to PARE training resources: Training Resources


Further News 18/02/2015

The PARE team will be facilitating working groups involving North West AHPs from late February - July 2015 in order to bring their students online. Continuous updates from the PARE site will be directed towards Placement areas and the HEI Academic Links for each profession.