August 2017

25 August 2017

- The curriculum headings and descriptors are now available! Relevant FAQs below:

• What is the curriculum?

• What is a foundation professional capability (FPC)?

• Where is the curriculum in Horus?

- We are now working on

• allowing mapping of evidence to the curriculum (will include all filled forms)

• allowing users to revert to draft/delete forms (appropriate rules will be applied)

• allowing F1s to add F2s in any trust as an assessor to their core procedure (CP) forms (F2s in the same trust can already be added)

• enabling reminders to be sent from Horus to trainers/assessors to complete/sign forms

- About 26,000 forms have now been completed by users, including about 5,300 SLEs/CPs (see details).

- User statistics

• 91% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 86% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 50% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

 

18 August 2017

- SLEs and Core Procedures are now live! Relevant FAQs below:

• How does a foundation doctor create and send a form for approval?

• How does a foundation doctor add a trainer or assessor to a form?

• Does a foundation doctor have to complete all the questions before sending the form for approval?

• Who can approve forms?

• How does a foundation doctor add a new trainer or assessor to Horus?

- About 13,700 forms have now been completed by users, including about 180 SLEs/CPs (see details).

- User statistics

• 86% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 80% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 45% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

- Newsletters and top FAQs for the first two weeks of August published

 

14 August 2017

- All website services (e.g. system speed) currently running well.

- A significant number of forms have already been completed by users (see details) - about 6,000 in total (not including signed declarations).

- As of last week it is possible to create accounts for NTG doctors 

- SLEs and Core Procedures will be released by the start of next week. Meanwhile, they can be completed using blank forms, ready for transcription.

- Access to the FP E-portfolio Archive will be available within the next few weeks - apologies for the inconvenience caused as we transition the information from the NES ePortfolio to the Archive.

- A number of users are attempting to access the now disabled 2016-17 version of Horus. All Horus users need to log in on the new 2017-18 version of Horus at https://horus.hee.nhs.uk.

 

09 August 2017

- User statistics

• 74% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 65% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 32% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

 

07 August 2017

- On Saturday 5 August 2017, NES ePortfolio access was removed for all HEE users (including former foundation doctors in England). This is a planned part of the HEE transition to the Horus ePortfolio. All the information collected in the NES ePortfolio will be available in the HEE Foundation Programme E-portfolio Archive shortly.  

• We understand that users need access to their historic data and are working hard to release the Archive to all within the next week or so.

• Any foundation doctor who urgently needs access to sign off documents / proof of completion of foundation training should contact their foundation school in the first instance.

• It is not possible for anyone to regain access to this information in the NES ePortfolio but the information has not been lost. It will be available in the Archive by early September 2017.

• A small number of users have retained access to the NES ePortfolio (some foundation doctors who are finishing off their foundation training grade less than full time or otherwise out of synchronisation with the standard training year; their supervisors and associated administrators). For this very small cohort of users all information remains accessible through the NES ePortfolio.

- User statistics

• 67% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 56% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 27% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

 

03 August 2017

- All services  (e.g. system speed) currently running well.

- User statistics

• 58% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 43% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 22% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

- We appreciate that it is frustrating for our users that not all of the features that you will need to manage the foundation training year are fully functional.

The work to transition the HEE foundation e-portfolio from the previous provider to the Horus platform has been complex and we have had to manage a number of competing priorities in our work towards finalising this transition. We of course would have liked to make available all of the features of the system for the start of the training year, but unfortunately this has not been possible due to the volume and complexity of the work. In anticipation of this, we considered carefully the functionality that is vital to begin the training year against the functionality that is required near to the start and later on. Details of our development priority list can be viewed here.

 

01 August 2017

- All website services (e.g. system speed) currently running well.

- User statistics

• 51% of foundation doctors have activated their account

• 34% of foundation doctors have signed their declarations

• 19% of other users (administrators and trainers) have activated their account

- A number of features are already available - see the list on the July 2017 updates page

- The following features are not yet available

• Creating accounts for NTG doctors - expected availability next week

• Creating SLEs and Core Procedures - expected availability 21 August 2017

• Viewing and mapping to the curriculum - expected availability 21 August 2017

• ARCP - expected availability September 2017

• Linking Horus to e-LfH accounts  - expected availability September 2017

• Other portfolio features - expected availability September 2017

• Uploading mandatory certificates

• TAB

We are working on making these available as soon as we can. See our development priorities for further information.