VR/AR Training Company Virti Announced As Winners of NHSX Challenge For Community COVID-19 Response Training
VR/AR corporate training company Virti has been awarded funding as part of NHSX’s TechForce19 challenge to gain further evidence and scale their COVID-19 health and social care simulations for the health and social care workforce.
As providers struggle on a global scale to meet the demands of increased patient volumes they are turning to volunteers and retired health professionals in addition to reassigning existing clinical staff and medical students to specialties and areas of practise with which they are not immediately familiar.
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Health and social care providers then need to quickly train staff at scale so that they are safe and feel prepared to meet the stresses imposed on the system by COVID-19.
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Virti is mobilising their immersive training platform to rapidly upskill the NHS workforce in order to tackle COVID-19. Virti supplies COVID-19 specific training to frontline healthcare and community staff internationally.
Virti founder and CEO and NHS National Innovation Fellow Dr Alexander Young who is a former trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, said “Healthcare systems globally are finding it incredibly challenging to scale traditional face-to-face training to meet updated guidelines and to train their workforce quickly and effectively in both community and hospital settings.”
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